February 2018
Beginner
580 pages
13h 20m
English
Content preview from Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition
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What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to ROS, gives you an understanding of the core underlying concepts of ROS.
Chapter 2, Getting Started with ROS Programming, explains how to work with ROS packages.
Chapter 3, Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS, discusses the design of two robots; one is a seven Degree of Freedom (DOF) manipulator and the other is a differential drive robot.
Chapter 4, Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo, discusses the simulation of a seven DOF arm, differential wheeled robots, and ROS controllers that help control robot joints in Gazebo.
Chapter 5, Simulating Robots Using ROS and V-REP, introduces using the V-REP simulator and vrep_plugin to connect ROS with the simulation scene. Then the control of a seven ...