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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

You're reading from   Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming Design, build, and simulate complex robots using the Robot Operating System

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478953
Length 580 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Preface 1. Introduction to ROS FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with ROS Programming 3. Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS 4. Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo 5. Simulating Robots Using ROS and V-REP 6. Using the ROS MoveIt! and Navigation Stack 7. Working with pluginlib, Nodelets, and Gazebo Plugins 8. Writing ROS Controllers and Visualization Plugins 9. Interfacing I/O Boards, Sensors, and Actuators to ROS 10. Programming Vision Sensors Using ROS, Open CV, and PCL 11. Building and Interfacing Differential Drive Mobile Robot Hardware in ROS 12. Exploring the Advanced Capabilities of ROS-MoveIt! 13. Using ROS in MATLAB and Simulink 14. ROS for Industrial Robots 15. Troubleshooting and Best Practices in ROS 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interfacing Kinect and Asus Xtion Pro in ROS


The webcams that we have worked with until now can only provide 2D visual information of the surroundings. For getting 3D information about the surroundings, we have to use 3D vision sensors or range finders, such as laser finders. Some of the 3D vision sensors that we are discussing in this chapter are Kinect, Asus Xtion Pro, Intel Real sense, and Hokuyo laser scanner:

Figure 7: Top: Kinect; bottom: Asus Xtion Pro.

The first two sensors we are going to discuss are Kinect and Asus Xtion Pro. Both of these devices need the OpenNI (Open source Natural Interaction) driver library for operating in the Linux system. OpenNI acts as a middleware between the 3D vision devices and the application software. The OpenNI driver is integrated to ROS and we can install these drivers by using the following commands. These packages help to interface the OpenNI supported devices, such as Kinect and Asus Xtion Pro:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-openni-launch ros...
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