Section 1, Effective Robotics Programming with ROS, Third Edition gives you a comprehensive review of ROS, the Robot Operating System framework, which is used nowadays by hundreds of research groups and companies in the robotics industry. More importantly, ROS is also the painless entry point to robotics for nonprofessionals and students. This section will guide you through the installation process of ROS, and soon enough, you will be playing with the basic tools and understanding the different elements of the framework.
The content of the section can be followed without any special devices, and each chapter comes with a series of source code examples and tutorials that you can run on your own computer. This ...
