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

by Lentin Joseph

May 2018

Beginner

294 pages

4h 59m

English

Apress

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Lentin JosephRobot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3405-1_4

4. Kick-Starting Robot Programming Using ROS

Lentin Joseph¹

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Cheerakathil House, Aluva, Kerala, India

The last three chapters discussed the prerequisites for programming a robot using the Robot Operating System (ROS). We discussed the basics of Ubuntu Linux, bash commands, the basic concepts of C++ programming, and the basics of Python programming. In this chapter, we start working with ROS. Before discussing ROS concepts, let’s discuss robot programming and how we do it. After this, we learn more about ROS, how to install ROS, and its architecture.

After this, we look at ROS concepts, ROS command tools, and ROS examples ...

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