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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

By : Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

By: Bernardo Ronquillo Japón

Overview of this book

Connecting a physical robot to a robot simulation using the Robot Operating System (ROS) infrastructure is one of the most common challenges faced by ROS engineers. With this book, you'll learn how to simulate a robot in a virtual environment and achieve desired behavior in equivalent real-world scenarios. This book starts with an introduction to GoPiGo3 and the sensors and actuators with which it is equipped. You'll then work with GoPiGo3's digital twin by creating a 3D model from scratch and running a simulation in ROS using Gazebo. Next, the book will show you how to use GoPiGo3 to build and run an autonomous mobile robot that is aware of its surroundings. Finally, you'll find out how a robot can learn tasks that have not been programmed in the code but are acquired by observing its environment. You'll even cover topics such as deep learning and reinforcement learning. By the end of this robot programming book, you'll be well-versed with the basics of building specific-purpose applications in robotics and developing highly intelligent autonomous robots from scratch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Physical Robot Assembly and Testing
5
Section 2: Robot Simulation with Gazebo
8
Section 3: Autonomous Navigation Using SLAM
13
Section 4: Adaptive Robot Behavior Using Machine Learning

Questions

  1. What is the top-level component in a ROS environment?

A) Package
B) Workspace
C) ROS graph

  1. What is the purpose of the roscore process?

A) To allow a node to communicate with others and manage the robot parameters
B) To provide a master node for driving all other nodes in the graph
C) To allow ROS nodes to be found from outside of the LAN

  1. Mark the correct sentence: A node can __ .

A) only publish topics or only subscribe to topics
B) publish topics and subscrib to topics at the same time
C) publish topics and/or subscribe to other topics

  1. What happens if one node fails to execute its program?

A) Some functions of the robot will fail
B) The robot will not work
C) The topics it publishes will be set to undefined

  1. Mark the incorrect sentence: The way to identify a message in a published topic is __.

A) to launch a node that publishes data in such topic
B) to issue the...