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Robot Operating System Cookbook

By : Kumar Bipin
Book Image

Robot Operating System Cookbook

By: Kumar Bipin

Overview of this book

This book will leverage the power of ROS with an introduction to its core and advanced concepts through exciting recipes. You will get acquainted with the use of different synchronous and asynchronous communication methods, including messages, services, and actions. You will learn how to use the various debugging and visualization tools used in development and how to interface sensors and actuators with the ROS framework. Firstly, you will get to grips with ROS simulation frameworks, such as Gazebo and RotorS for modeling and simulating any physical robot and virtual environment. You will also cover mobile robotics, micro-aerial vehicles, and robotic arms, which are the leading branches of robotic applications. Robot Operating System Cookbook will also guide you in the development of an autonomous navigation framework for both mobile robots and micro-aerial vehicles. Finally, you will explore ROS-Industrial, an open source project that extends the advanced capabilities of ROS software to manufacturing industries.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Visualizing non-scalar data – 2D/3D images

There are several robotic applications that deal with 2D and 3D data, usually in the form of images or point cloud. ROS provides interfaces that are built upon the OpenCV library to solve computer vision problems for complex robotics applications.

Getting ready

There are several extremely useful tools available in ROS to visualize these types of data, such as image_view and rqt_image_view for 2D data. Similarly, in ROS, we have rviz and rqt_rviz, which integrates an OpenGL interface with a 3D world that represents sensor data in a world representation.

How it works...

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