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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Prerequisites
For running a ROS image recognition node, you should install the following dependencies. The first is cv-bridge, which helps us convert a ROS image message into OpenCV image data type and vice versa. The second is cv-camera, which is one of the ROS camera drivers. Here's how to install them:
$sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-cv-camera