Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

The ROS community level

The ROS community consists of ROS developers and researchers who can create and maintain packages and exchange new information related to existing packages, newly released packages, and other news related to the ROS framework. The ROS community provides the following services:

• Distributions: A ROS distribution has a set of packages that come with a specific version. The distribution that we are using in this book is ROS Kinetic. There are other versions available, such as ROS Lunar and Indigo, which has a specific version that we can install. It is easier to maintain the packages in each distribution. In most cases, the packages inside a distribution will be relatively stable.
• Repositories: The online repositories ...