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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

Playing with ROS-Android applications


In this section, we will see how to install the ROS-Android application generated from the preceding build process on your Android phone.

Let's take the android_core folder and search for .apk files; you may get a bunch of applications, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 25: List of generated APK files

You can copy the APK files and install them on your phone.

Troubleshooting

You may get errors while installing these APK files. One of the errors is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 26: Parse error during installation of APK

Here are the tips to solve this issue:

The first step is to enable installation from Unknown sources, as shown in section 1 of the following figure:

Figure 27: Tips to solve parse error

Install an Android app called APK Editor, which can be downloaded from following the link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.heagoo.apkeditor&hl=en

You can also buy the Pro version, which you may require in the future...