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Robot Operating System Cookbook

By : Kumar Bipin
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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)

Learning working with ROS

In the preceding section, we learned about the basic concept and terminology required to start with the ROS computational network framework. Subsequently, in this section, we will focus mostly on the practical aspect.

Getting ready

Before running any ROS nodes, we should start the ROS master and the ROS parameter server. We can start ROS master and the ROS parameter server using a single command called roscore, which will start three programs by default; ROS master, ROS parameter server, and rosout logging nodes.

How to do it...

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