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ROS Robotics Projects

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ROS Robotics Projects

Overview of this book

Robot Operating System is one of the most widely used software frameworks for robotic research and for companies to model, simulate, and prototype robots. Applying your knowledge of ROS to actual robotics is much more difficult than people realize, but this title will give you what you need to create your own robotics in no time! This book is packed with over 14 ROS robotics projects that can be prototyped without requiring a lot of hardware. The book starts with an introduction of ROS and its installation procedure. After discussing the basics, you’ll be taken through great projects, such as building a self-driving car, an autonomous mobile robot, and image recognition using deep learning and ROS. You can find ROS robotics applications for beginner, intermediate, and expert levels inside! This book will be the perfect companion for a robotics enthusiast who really wants to do something big in the field.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ROS Robotics Projects
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Recognizing objects


There are several commands to start recognition using a trained model.

Starting roscore:

$ roscore

Starting the ROS driver for Kinect:

$ roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch

Setting the ROS parameters for the Kinect driver:

$ rosrun dynamic_reconfigure dynparam set /camera/driver depth_registration True
$ rosrun dynamic_reconfigure dynparam set /camera/driver image_mode 2
$ rosrun dynamic_reconfigure dynparam set /camera/driver depth_mode 2

Republishing the depth and RGB image topics using topic_tools relay:

$ rosrun topic_tools relay /camera/depth_registered/image_raw /camera/depth/image_raw
$ rosrun topic_tools relay /camera/rgb/image_rect_color /camera/rgb/image_raw

Here is the command to start recognition; we can use different pipelines to perform detection. The following command uses the tod pipeline. This will work well for textured objects.

$ rosrun object_recognition_core detection -c `rospack find object_recognition_tod`/conf/detection.ros.ork --visualize

Alternatively...