Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Preface

Why a new book about learning robotics with ROS? Well, programming is but a small part of what it takes to work with robots. If you want to become really good at robotics, you'll need skills in other areas as well: electromechanics, robot simulation, autonomous navigation, and machine learning/reinforcement learning. Each of these four topics is a building block that you will need to master on your path to acquiring full robotics skills. This book is divided into four parts, each one being devoted to each of these building blocks.

Part 1, Physical Robot Assembly and Testing, focuses on electromechanics and describes each hardware part of the robot, providing practical demonstrations of how to test every sensor and actuator that it ...