March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
book
ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
Content preview from ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
ROS for Industrial Robots
In the previous chapter, we have seen some advanced concepts in ROS-MoveIt! Until now, we have been discussing mainly about interfacing personal and research robots with ROS, but one of the main areas where robots are extensively used are industries. Does ROS support industrial robots? Do any of the companies use ROS for the manufacturing process? The ROS-Industrial packages comes with a solution to interface industrial robot manipulators to ROS and controlling it using the power of ROS, such as MoveIt!, Gazebo, RViz, and so on.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Understanding ROS-Industrial packages
- Installing ROS-Industrial packages in ROS
- Block diagram of ROS-Industrial packages
- Creating URDF ...