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ROS Robotics Projects - Second Edition

By : Ramkumar Gandhinathan
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ROS Robotics Projects - Second Edition

By: Ramkumar Gandhinathan

Overview of this book

Nowadays, heavy industrial robots placed in workcells are being replaced by new age robots called cobots, which don't need workcells. They are used in manufacturing, retail, banks, energy, and healthcare, among other domains. One of the major reasons for this rapid growth in the robotics market is the introduction of an open source robotics framework called the Robot Operating System (ROS). This book covers projects in the latest ROS distribution, ROS Melodic Morenia with Ubuntu Bionic (18.04). Starting with the fundamentals, this updated edition of ROS Robotics Projects introduces you to ROS-2 and helps you understand how it is different from ROS-1. You'll be able to model and build an industrial mobile manipulator in ROS and simulate it in Gazebo 9. You'll then gain insights into handling complex robot applications using state machines and working with multiple robots at a time. This ROS book also introduces you to new and popular hardware such as Nvidia's Jetson Nano, Asus Tinker Board, and Beaglebone Black, and allows you to explore interfacing with ROS. You'll learn as you build interesting ROS projects such as self-driving cars, making use of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and other key AI concepts. By the end of the book, you'll have gained the confidence to build interesting and intricate projects with ROS.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Application use case – robot home delivery

In the last two decades, there has been huge growth in the e-commerce sector, driven by big e-commerce companies such as Amazon and Alibaba, across the world. This has led to retailers around the globe looking to expand their operations to include online shopping. This has brought opportunities as well as challenges for delivery service companies. As demand increases among competitors, the delivery service companies have scrambled to offer product delivery as early as possible. These delivery times may vary from a few hours to a couple of days. This has created a huge demand for delivery agents as well.

The use of robots in this sector could have huge potential and could enhance business prospects. For instance, robots could be used in packaging or sorting retail items, delivering items within warehouses, or even delivering the...