June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
484 pages
11h 36m
English
Content preview from Robot Operating System Cookbook
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Perception
We'll also need to know about perception, of course! In order to interact with any object in the environment, we first need to visualize it. We need to know where it is and what it is, and that's what perception is for!
Perception is usually done using RGBD cameras such as Kinect, which is used to improve manipulation tasks such as detecting new objects that spawn into the simulation.