Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

Introduction to ROS

ROS is a software framework used for creating robotic applications. The main aim of the ROS framework is to provide the capabilities that you can use to create powerful robotics applications that can be reused for other robots. ROS has a collection of software tools, libraries, and collection of packages that makes robot software development easy.

ROS is a complete open source project licensed under the BSD (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) license. We can use it for research and commercial applications. Even though ROS stands for Robot Operating System, it is not a real operating system. Rather, it is a meta-operating system, which provides the features of a real operating system. Here are the major features ...