Mastering ROS for robotics programming : design, build, and simulate complex robots using Robot Operating System and master its out-of-the-box functionalities / Lentin Joseph

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Lentin, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robots--Programmation.

Robots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Design, build and simulate complex robots using Robot Operating System and master its out-of-the-box functionalities About This Book Develop complex robotic applications using ROS for interfacing robot manipulators and mobile robots with the help of high end robotic sensors Gain insights into autonomous navigation in mobile robot and motion planning in robot manipulators Discover the best practices and troubleshooting solutions everyone needs when working on ROS Who This Book Is For If you are a robotics enthusiast or researcher who wants to learn more about building robot applications using ROS, this book is for you. In order to learn from this book, you should have a basic knowledge of ROS, GNU/Linux, and C++ programming concepts. The book will also be good for programmers who want to explore the advanced features of ROS. What You Will Learn Create a robot model of a Seven-DOF robotic arm and a differential wheeled mobile robot Work with motion planning of a Seven-DOF arm using MoveIt! Implement autonomous navigation in differential drive robots using SLAM and AMCL packages in ROS Dig deep into the ROS Pluginlib, ROS nodelets, and Gazebo plugins Interface I/O boards such as Arduino, Robot sensors, and High end actuators with ROS Simulation and motion planning of ABB and Universal arm using ROS Industrial Explore the ROS framework using its latest version In Detail The area of robotics is gaining huge momentum among corporate people, researchers, hobbyists, and students. The major challenge in robotics is its controlling software. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a modular software platform to develop generic robotic applications. This book discusses the advanced concepts in robotics and how to program using ROS. It starts with deep overview of the ROS framework, which will give you a clear idea of how ROS really works. During the course of the book, you will learn how to build models of complex robots, and simulate and interface the robot using the ROS MoveIt motion planning library and ROS navigation stacks. After discussing robot manipulation and navigation in robots, you will get to grips with the interfacing I/O boards, sensors, and actuators of ROS. One of the essential ingredients of robots are vision sensors, and an entire chapter is dedicated to the vision sensor, its interfacing in ROS, and its programming. You will discuss the hardware interfacing and simulation of complex robot to ROS and ROS Industrial (Package used for interf...

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to ROS and Its Package Management; Why should we learn ROS?; Why we prefer ROS for robots; Why some do not prefer ROS for robots; Understanding the ROS file system level; ROS packages; ROS meta packages; ROS messages; The ROS services; Understanding the ROS computation graph level; Understanding ROS nodes; ROS messages; ROS topics; ROS services; ROS bags; Understanding ROS Master; Using the ROS parameter; Understanding ROS community level

What are the prerequisites to start with ROS?Running ROS Master and ROS parameter server; Checking the roscore command output; Creating a ROS package; Working with ROS topics; Creating ROS nodes; Building the nodes; Adding custom msg and srv files; Working with ROS services; Working with ROS actionlib; Building the ROS action server and client; Creating launch files; Applications of topics, services, and actionlib; Maintaining the ROS package; Releasing your ROS package; Preparing the ROS package for the release; Releasing our package; Creating a Wiki page for your ROS package; Questions

SummaryChapter 2: Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS; ROS packages for robot modeling; Understanding robot modeling using URDF; Creating the ROS package for the robot description; Creating our first URDF model; Explaining the URDF file; Visualizing the robot 3D model in Rviz; Interacting with pan and tilt joints; Adding physical and collision properties to a URDF model; Understanding robot modeling using xacro; Using properties; Using the math expression; Using macros; Conversion of xacro to URDF; Creating the robot description for a seven DOF robot manipulator; Arm specification

Type of jointsExplaining the xacro model of seven DOF arm ; Using constants; Using macros; Including other xacro files; Using meshes in the link; Working with the robot gripper; Viewing the seven DOF arm in Rviz; Understanding joint state publisher; Understanding the robot state publisher; Creating a robot model for the differential drive mobile robot; Questions; Summary; Chapter 3: Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo; Simulating the robotic arm using Gazebo and ROS; The Robotic arm simulation model for Gazebo; Adding colors and textures to the Gazebo robot model

Adding transmission tags to actuate the modelAdding the gazebo_ros_control plugin; Adding a 3D vision sensor to Gazebo; Simulating the robotic arm with Xtion Pro; Visualizing the 3D sensor data; Moving robot joints using ROS controllers in Gazebo; Understanding the ros_control packages; Different types of ROS controllers and hardware interfaces; How the ROS controller interacts with Gazebo; Interfacing joint state controllers and joint position controllers to the arm; Launching the ROS controllers with Gazebo; Moving the robot joints; Simulating a differential wheeled robot in Gazebo

Adding the laser scanner to Gazebo

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 31, 2017).

ISBN:

9781785282997

1785282999

OCLC:

934725490