Discover best practices and troubleshooting solutions when working on
ROS
Key Features
- Develop complex robotic applications using ROS to interface robot
manipulators and mobile robots
- Gain insight into autonomous navigation in mobile robots and motion
planning in robot manipulators
- Discover best practices and troubleshooting solutions
Book Description
In this day and age, robotics has been gaining a lot of traction in
various industries where consistency and perfection matter. Automation
is achieved via robotic applications and various platforms that support
robotics. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a modular software
platform to develop generic robotic applications. This book focuses on
the most stable release of ROS (Kinetic Kame), discusses advanced
concepts, and effectively teaches you programming using ROS.
We begin with aninformative overview of the ROS framework, which will
give you a clear idea of how ROS works. During the course of this book,
you'll learn to build models of complex robots, and simulate and
interface the robot using the ROS MoveIt! motion planning library and
ROS navigation stacks. Learn to leverage several ROS packages to embrace
your robot models.
After covering robot manipulation and navigation, you'll get to grips
with the interfacing I/O boards, sensors, and actuators of ROS. Vision
sensors are a key component of robots, and an entire chapter is
dedicated to the vision sensor and image elaboration, its interface in
ROS and programming. You'll also understand the hardware interface and
simulation of complex robots to ROS and ROS Industrial.
At the end of this book, you'll discover the best practices to follow
when programming using ROS.
What you will learn
- Create a robot model with a seven-DOF robotic arm and a differential
wheeled mobile robot
- Work with Gazebo and V-REP robotic simulator
- Implement autonomous navigation in differential drive robots using
SLAM and AMCL packages
- Explore the ROS Pluginlib, ROS nodelets, and Gazebo plugins
- Interface I/O boards such as Arduino, robot sensors, and high-end
actuators
- Simulate and motion plan an ABB and universal arm using ROS Industrial
- Explore the latest version of the ROS framework
- Work with the motion planning of a seven-DOF arm using MoveIt!
Who this book is for:
If you are a robotics enthusiast or researcher who want to learn more
about building robot applications using ROS, this book is for you. In
order to learn from this book, you should have a basic knowledge of ROS,
GNU/Linux, and C++ programming concepts. The book is also excellent for
programmers who want to explore the advanced features of ROS.
