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Lentin JosephRobot Operating System (ROS) for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3405-1_6

6. Robotics Project Using ROS

Lentin Joseph1 
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Cheerakathil House, Aluva, Kerala, India
 

The previous chapter discussed programming using ROS client libraries such as rospy and ROSCPP. In this chapter, you see how to apply those things to a real robot. You see how to make a low-cost, differential drive robot that is compatible with ROS. You also see how to perform dead-reckoning in the robot using ROS. By doing this project, you get a clearer understanding of ROS concepts and where to apply them.

You are going to apply things that you learned in previous chapters, so you need to have a clear understanding of the last five ...

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