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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition - Third Edition

By : Lentin Joseph, Jonathan Cacace
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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition - Third Edition

By: Lentin Joseph, Jonathan Cacace

Overview of this book

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a software framework used for programming complex robots. ROS enables you to develop software for building complex robots without writing code from scratch, saving valuable development time. Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming provides complete coverage of the advanced concepts using easy-to-understand, practical examples and step-by-step explanations of essential concepts that you can apply to your ROS robotics projects. The book begins by helping you get to grips with the basic concepts necessary for programming robots with ROS. You'll then discover how to develop a robot simulation, as well as an actual robot, and understand how to apply high-level capabilities such as navigation and manipulation from scratch. As you advance, you'll learn how to create ROS controllers and plugins and explore ROS's industrial applications and how it interacts with aerial robots. Finally, you'll discover best practices and methods for working with ROS efficiently. By the end of this ROS book, you'll have learned how to create various applications in ROS and build your first ROS robot.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1 – ROS Programming Essentials
4
Section 2 – ROS Robot Simulation
11
Section 3 – ROS Robot Hardware Prototyping
15
Section 4 – Advanced ROS Programming

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to work with the Visual Studio Code IDE, how to set up the ROS development environment inside the IDE, how to create nodes and packages, and how to manage ROS data. Then, we discussed some of the best practices in ROS while looking at naming conventions, coding styles, best practices while creating a ROS package, and so on. After discussing these best practices, we looked at ROS troubleshooting. There, we discussed various troubleshooting tips that we need to bear in mind when we work with ROS.

With this chapter, we conclude the Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming book. We hope you enjoyed reading this book and are satisfied with your learning path. Thank you for reading this book.

Here are some questions based on what we covered in this chapter.