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You're reading from Learning Robotics using Python Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788623315

Length 280 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

OpenCV

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Lentin Joseph

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System

2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots FREE CHAPTER

3. Modeling the Differential Drive Robot

4. Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS

5. Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits

6. Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller

7. Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS

8. Building ChefBot Hardware and the Integration of Software

9. Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python

10. Assessments

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Configuring ChefBot PC and setting ChefBot ROS packages

In ChefBot, we are using Intel's NUC PC to handle the robot sensor data and the processing of the data. After procuring the NUC PC, we have to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. After the installation of Ubuntu, install the complete ROS and its packages that we mentioned in the previous chapters. We can configure this PC separately, and after the configuration of all the settings, we can put this into the robot. The following are the procedures to install the ChefBot packages on the NUC PC.

Clone ChefBot's software packages from GitHub using the following command:

    $ git clone https://github.com/qboticslabs/learning_robotics_2nd_ed

We can clone this code in our laptop and copy the ChefBot folder to Intel's NUC PC. The ChefBot folder consists of the ROS packages of the ChefBot hardware. In the NUC PC, create a ROS...

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Authors (1)

Lentin Joseph

Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.

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