February 2018
Beginner
580 pages
13h 20m
English
Content preview from Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition
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To get the most out of this book
In order to run the examples in this book, you need a standard PC running Linux OS. Ubuntu 16.04 is the suggested Linux distribution, but Debian 8 is supported as well. The suggested PC configuration requires at least 4 GB of RAM and a modern processor (Intel i-family) to execute Gazebo simulations and image processing algorithms.
Readers can even work in a virtual environment setup installing Linux OS on a virtual machine, using Virtual box or VMware software hosted on a Windows system. The disadvantage of this choice is that more computational power is needed to work with the examples and the reader could face issues when interfacing ROS with real hardware.
The software needed to follow the book is ROS and ...