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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)

Adding perception to motion planning

In the previous section, we learned how to plan and execute trajectories for our robot using programs. However, we weren't taking into account perception, were we?

Usually, we will want to take the data from a 3D vision sensor into account; for instance, from a Kinect camera. This will give us real-time information about the environment, which will allow us to plan more realistic motions, introducing any changes that the environment suffers from. So, in this section, we are going to learn how we can add a 3D vision sensor to MoveIt in order to perform vision-assisted motion planning!

Getting ready

First of all, let's make some changes to the current simulation so that we are able...