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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
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ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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The final run

I hope that you have followed all instructions properly; here is the command to launch all the nodes for this project and start tracking using Dynamixel:

    $ roslaunch face_tracker_pkg start_dynamixel_tracking.launch

You will get the following windows, and it would be good if you could use a photo to test the tracking, because you will get continuous tracking of the face:

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Figure 22: Final face tracking

Here, you can see the Terminal message that says the image is in the right and the controller is reducing the position value to achieve the center position.

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ISBN: 9781788627436