Robot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginners: Robotics Programming Made Easy

© Lentin Joseph 2018

Lentin JosephRobot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3405-1_1

1. Getting Started with Ubuntu Linux for Robotics

Lentin Joseph¹ 

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Cheerakathil House, Aluva, Kerala, India

 

Let’s start our journey of programming robots by using the Robot Operating System (ROS). In order to get started with ROS, there are some prerequisites to be satisfied. The prerequisites are to have a good understanding of Linux, especially Ubuntu; a good understanding of Linux shell commands; and Python and C++programming knowledge.

This book discusses all the prerequisite technologies required for robot programming using ROS. This first chapter introduces the Ubuntu operating system, installation, important shell ...