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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

Working with ROS services

In this section, we are going to create ROS nodes, which can use the service definition that we defined already. The service nodes we are going to create can send a string message as a request to the server; then, the server node will send another message as a response.

Navigate to mastering_ros_demo_pkg/src and find the demo_service_server.cpp and demo_service_client.cpp nodes.

demo_service_server.cpp is the server, and its definition is as follows:

#include "ros/ros.h" 
#include "mastering_ros_demo_pkg/demo_srv.h" 
#include <iostream> 
#include <sstream> 
using namespace std; 
 
bool demo_service_callback(mastering_ros_demo_pkg::demo_srv::Request &req, 
     mastering_ros_demo_pkg::demo_srv::Response &res) { 
    ss << "Received Here"; 
    ROS_INFO("From Client [%s], Server says [%s]",req.in.c_str(),res.out.c_str()...