Robot Operating System Cookbook: Over 70 recipes to help you master advanced ROS concepts

Kumar Bipin

商品描述

Leverage the power of ROS to build exciting collaborative robots.

Key Features

  • Delve into an open source, meta-operating system for your robot
  • Get acquainted with tools and libraries for building and running code on multiple platforms
  • Use Gazebo to model your robot and create a virtual environment

Book Description

This book will leverage the power of ROS with an introduction to its core and advanced concepts through exciting recipes. You will get acquainted with the use of different synchronous and asynchronous communication methods, including messages, services, and actions. You will learn how to use the various debugging and visualization tools used in development and how to interface sensors and actuators with the ROS framework.

Firstly, you will get to grips with ROS simulation frameworks, such as Gazebo and RotorS for modeling and simulating any physical robot and virtual environment. You will also cover mobile robotics, micro-aerial vehicles, and robotic arms, which are the leading branches of robotic applications. Robot Operating System Cookbook will also guide you in the development of an autonomous navigation framework for both mobile robots and micro-aerial vehicles.

Finally, you will explore ROS-Industrial, an open source project that extends the advanced capabilities of ROS software to manufacturing industries.

What you will learn

  • Explore advanced concepts, such as ROS pluginlib, nodelets, and actionlib
  • Work with ROS visualization, profiling, and debugging tools
  • Gain experience in robot modeling and simulation using Gazebo
  • Understand the ROS Navigation Stack for mobile robots
  • Configure a MoveIt! package for a manipulator robot
  • Develop an autonomous navigation framework for MAV using ORB SLAM and MoveIt
  • Integrate sensors, actuators, and robots into the ROS ecosystem
  • Get acquainted with the ROS-Industrial package with hardware support, capabilities, and applications

Who This Book Is For

If you're a researcher or engineer with an interest in the problems, solutions, and future research issues that you may encounter in the development of robotic applications, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of C++ and Python programming with the GNU/Linux environment is strongly recommended to assist with understanding the key concepts covered in the book.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started with ROS
  2. ROS Architecture and Concepts-I
  3. ROS Architecture and Concepts- II
  4. ROS Visualization and Debugging Tools
  5. Access the Sensors and Actuators through the ROS
  6. Robot Modeling and Simulation
  7. Mobile Robot in ROS
  8. Robotic Arm in ROS
  9. Micro Aerial Vehicle in ROS
  10. ROS-Industrial (ROS-I)

商品描述(中文翻譯)

充分利用ROS的強大功能來建立令人興奮的協作機器人。

主要特點:
- 深入研究用於機器人的開源元操作系統
- 熟悉用於在多個平台上構建和運行代碼的工具和庫
- 使用Gazebo對機器人進行建模並創建虛擬環境

書籍描述:
本書將通過精彩的實例,充分利用ROS的核心和高級概念。您將熟悉使用不同的同步和非同步通信方法,包括消息、服務和動作。您將學習如何使用開發中使用的各種調試和可視化工具,以及如何將傳感器和執行器與ROS框架進行接口。

首先,您將瞭解ROS模擬框架,例如Gazebo和RotorS,用於對任何物理機器人和虛擬環境進行建模和模擬。您還將涵蓋移動機器人、微型空中載具和機械臂,這些是機器人應用的主要分支。《機器人操作系統食譜》還將指導您開發用於移動機器人和微型空中載具的自主導航框架。

最後,您將探索ROS-Industrial,這是一個將ROS軟件的高級功能擴展到製造業的開源項目。

您將學到什麼:
- 探索高級概念,如ROS pluginlib、nodelets和actionlib
- 使用ROS可視化、性能分析和調試工具
- 通過Gazebo進行機器人建模和模擬
- 瞭解移動機器人的ROS導航堆棧
- 為機械臂配置MoveIt!套件
- 使用ORB SLAM和MoveIt開發用於MAV的自主導航框架
- 將傳感器、執行器和機器人集成到ROS生態系統中
- 熟悉具有硬件支持、功能和應用的ROS-Industrial套件

本書適合對機器人應用開發中可能遇到的問題、解決方案和未來研究問題感興趣的研究人員或工程師。強烈建議具備C++和Python編程以及GNU/Linux環境的基礎知識,以幫助理解本書涵蓋的關鍵概念。

目錄:
1. 開始使用ROS
2. ROS架構和概念-I
3. ROS架構和概念-II
4. ROS可視化和調試工具
5. 通過ROS訪問傳感器和執行器
6. 機器人建模和模擬
7. ROS中的移動機器人
8. ROS中的機械臂
9. ROS中的微型空中載具
10. ROS-Industrial (ROS-I)