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A Systematic Approach to Learning Robot Programming with ROS
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A Systematic Approach to Learning Robot Programming with ROS

by Wyatt Newman
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
15h 8m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Simulation and Visualization in ROS

INTRODUCTION

Valuable characteristics of ROS include its simulation and visualization capabilities. When software development can be performed only on specific hardware (e.g. a particular robot), productivity plummets. A physical robot is typically a bottleneck for development, because it is a limited resource presumably shared by a team. Further, some robots, including vehicles and humanoids, require teams to run experiments. Most often, the robot and team are idling while a programmer is seeking errors in code under test.

With a suitable robot simulator, code can be developed under simulation, allowing work to proceed in parallel and without imposing on a support staff for experiments. If the simulator ...

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ISBN: 9781498777872