June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
484 pages
11h 36m
English
Content preview from Robot Operating System Cookbook
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How to do it…
To check if the setup is working, we want to start with a short example. We will validate our setup by running a simulator of an AscTec Firefly hex-rotor helicopter, which has an inbuilt position controller. Here, we have an ideal sensor that publishes odometry data that can directly be used by a controller.