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
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Designing and building actual robot hardware
Let's build the actual hardware of this robot. We need components that satisfy our design values and additional vision sensors to perform SLAM and AMCL. Here is the list::
| No | Component name | Link |
| 1 | DC gear motor with encoder | https://www.pololu.com/product/2824 |
| 2 | Motor driver | https://www.pololu.com/product/708 |
| 3 | Tiva C 123 or 129 Launchpad | http://www.ti.com/tool/EK-TM4C123GXL or http://www.ti.com/tool/EK-TM4C1294XL |
| 4 | Ultrasonic sensor | http://www.robotshop.com/en/hc-sr04-ultrasonic-range-finder.html |
| 5 | MPU 6050 (IMU) | http://www.robotshop.com/en/mpu-6050-6-dof-gyro-accelerometer-imu.html http://www.robotshop.com/en/imu-breakout-board-mpu-9250.html |
| 6 | OpenNI compatible depth sensor (Astra ... |