Robot Operating System Cookbook

Getting ready

ROS-I packages can be installed by using package managers or can be built from the source code. Although we have installed the ros-kinetic-desktop-full in the past, we can use the following command to install ROS-I packages on Ubuntu:

 $ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-industrial-core

Moreover, we can find the complete repository of ROS-I at https://github.com/ros-industrial and download the required packages. The preceding command will install the core packages of ROS-I, which consist of the following set of ROS packages:

• industrial-core
• industrial_deprecated
• industrial_msgs
• simple_message
• industrial_robot_client
• industrial_robot_simulator
• industrial_trajectory_filters

We could discuss each of the layers in brief for better ...