June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
280 pages
6h 58m
English
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Getting Started with Robot Operating System
The main aim of this book is to teach you how to build an autonomous mobile robot from scratch. The robot will be programmed using ROS and its operations will be simulated using a simulator called Gazebo. You will also see the robot's mechanical design, circuit design, embedded programming, and high-level software programming using ROS in the upcoming chapters.
In this chapter, we will start with the basics of ROS, how to install it, how to write a basic application using ROS and Python, and the basics of Gazebo. This chapter will be the foundation of your autonomous robotics project. If you are already aware of the basics of ROS, and already have it installed on your system, you may skip this chapter. ...