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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 difference between ROS topics and ROS messages?

A) Both stand for the data transmitted from one node to the other.
B) A topic is how you identify a transmission channel and a message is one sample of the content that flows through that channel.
C) Any topic name has to be unique, while several topics can transmit the same message.

  1. Which command would use to record a ROS session?

A) rosbag
B) rosrecord
C) roswrite

  1. Can a ROS node have a publisher and a subscriber at the same time?

A) Yes, if the topic subscriber is the same as the topic publisher.
B) No, because it would imply a programming conflict: a node with a publisher loops at a constant rate, that is, rate.sleep(), while a node with a subscriber only runs an iteration if it receives a message, that is, rospy.spin().
C) Yes, and the node is driven by the subscriber, that is, the node broadcasts a...