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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

By : Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

By: Bernardo Ronquillo Japón

Overview of this book

Connecting a physical robot to a robot simulation using the Robot Operating System (ROS) infrastructure is one of the most common challenges faced by ROS engineers. With this book, you'll learn how to simulate a robot in a virtual environment and achieve desired behavior in equivalent real-world scenarios. This book starts with an introduction to GoPiGo3 and the sensors and actuators with which it is equipped. You'll then work with GoPiGo3's digital twin by creating a 3D model from scratch and running a simulation in ROS using Gazebo. Next, the book will show you how to use GoPiGo3 to build and run an autonomous mobile robot that is aware of its surroundings. Finally, you'll find out how a robot can learn tasks that have not been programmed in the code but are acquired by observing its environment. You'll even cover topics such as deep learning and reinforcement learning. By the end of this robot programming book, you'll be well-versed with the basics of building specific-purpose applications in robotics and developing highly intelligent autonomous robots from scratch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Physical Robot Assembly and Testing
5
Section 2: Robot Simulation with Gazebo
8
Section 3: Autonomous Navigation Using SLAM
13
Section 4: Adaptive Robot Behavior Using Machine Learning

Practising SLAM and navigation with the GoPiGo3

Like it was mentioned at the end of the previous section, we are going to run an end-to-end example of SLAM and navigation with GoPiGo3. The first process deals with building a map of the environment using SLAM. Let's retrace the steps listed in the preceding section and see how to execute each of them in ROS.

Exploring the environment to build a map using SLAM

Let's follow these steps to build the map of a simple Gazebo world called stage_2.world:

  1. Launch the robot model within a modeled environment by running the following line of code:
T1 $ roslaunch virtual_slam gopigo3_world.launch world:=stage_2.world

This command launches Gazebo and places the GoPiGo3 model...