June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
280 pages
6h 58m
English
Content preview from Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition
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Working with a TurtleBot 2 simulation
After working with Gazebo, now it's time to run a simulation on it and work with some robots. One of the popular robots available for education and research is TurtleBot. The TurtleBot software was developed within the ROS framework, and there is a good simulation of its operations available in Gazebo. The popular versions of TurtleBot are TurtleBot 2 and 3. We will learn about TurtleBot 2 in this section because our development of Chefbot was inspired by its design.
Installing TurtleBot 2 simulation packages in Ubuntu 16.04 is straightforward. You can use the following command to install TurtleBot 2 simulation packages for Gazebo:
$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-turtlebot-gazebo
After installing ...