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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Understanding the ROS Community level
The ROS Community level concepts are the ROS resources that enable separate communities to exchange software and knowledge. These resources include the following:
- Distributions: ROS distributions are collections of versioned metapackages that you can install. ROS distributions play a similar role to Linux distributions. They make it easier to install a collection of software, and they also maintain consistent versions across a set of software.
- Repositories: ROS relies on a federated network of code repositories, where different institutions can develop and release their own robot software components.
- The ROS Wiki: The ROS Wiki is the main forum for documenting information about ROS. Anyone can sign up ...