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You're reading from ROS Robotics Projects, Build and control robots powered by the Robot Operating System, machine learning, and virtual reality

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649326

Length 456 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Ramkumar Gandhinathan

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with ROS FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to ROS-2 and Its Capabilities

3. Building an Industrial Mobile Manipulator

4. Handling Complex Robot Tasks Using State Machines

5. Building an Industrial Application

6. Multi-Robot Collaboration

7. ROS on Embedded Platforms and Their Control

8. Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

9. Deep Learning Using ROS and TensorFlow

10. Creating a Self-Driving Car Using ROS

11. Teleoperating Robots Using a VR Headset and Leap Motion

12. Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV, and Dynamixel Servos

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Installing the Leap Motion SDK on Ubuntu 14.04.5

In this project, we have chosen Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and ROS Indigo because the Leap Motion SDK will work smoothly with this combination. The Leap Motion SDK is not fully supported by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; if there are any further fixes from the company, this code will work on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with ROS Kinetic.

The Leap Motion SDK is the core of the Leap Motion controller. The Leap Motion controller has two IR cameras facing upward, and it also has several IR projectors. This is interfaced with a PC, and the Leap Motion SDK runs on the PC, which has drivers for the controller. It also has algorithms to process the hand image to produce the joint values of each finger joint.

Here is the procedure to install the Leap Motion SDK in Ubuntu:

Download the SDK from https://www.leapmotion.com/setup/linux; you can extract this package and you...

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Authors (1)

Ramkumar Gandhinathan

Ramkumar is a roboticist and a researcher by profession. He started building robots since his sixth grade and has been into the robotics field for over 15 years through personal and professional connect. He has built, in person, over 80+ robots of different types. With an overall professional experience of 7 years (4 years full time and 3 years part-time/internship) in the robotics industry, he has ROS experience of 5 years. As a part of his professional career, he has built over 15+ industrial robot solutions using ROS. He also fascinates building drones and is a drone pilot by practice. His research interests and passion are towards the field of SLAM, motion planning, sensor fusion, multi-robot communication, and systems integration.

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