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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

Simulating a differential wheeled robot in Gazebo

We have seen the simulation of the robotic arm. In this section, we can set up the simulation for the differential wheeled robot that we designed in the previous chapter.

You will find the diff_wheeled_robot.xacro mobile robot description in the mastering_ros_robot_description_pkg/urdf folder.

Let's create a launch file to spawn the simulation model in Gazebo. As we did for the robotic arm, we can create an ROS package to launch a Gazebo simulation using the same dependencies of the seven_dof_arm_gazebo package. If you have already cloned the code repository, you already have this package, otherwise, clone the entire code from the Git repository, or get the package from the book's source code:

git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-ROS-for-Robotics-Programming-Third-edition.git
cd Chapter4/seven_dof_arm_gazebo

Navigate to the diff_wheeled_robot_gazebo/launch directory and take the diff_wheeled_gazebo...