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Christopher Adamson Aug 04, 2017

For a beginner ROS developer, this is a good book for an intro, and has helpful documentation on general ROS concepts and specific ROS technologies such as the Navigation stack.

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Neil John Jan 27, 2017

Hi EveryoneI am Lentin Joseph, Technical reviewer of this book and author of few books in ROS .Actually, this book is the continuation of a book called Learning ROS for Robotics Programming which is pretty popular in ROS community. I can recommend you guys, this will be very useful to people who are wanted to work with ROS.This book mainly discussing ROS concepts using the latest version of ROS called ROS Kinetic and teaches you to create interactive project using ROS. Also, book is written in a simple language so that everyone can understand :)

Amazon Customer Jun 02, 2017

This book has better structure and formatting than the ROS wiki tutorials. The examples are well executed but, I recommend following along with the ROS wiki page tutorials. Sometimes the ROS wiki gives extra information.My school's online edition of this book has a typo. When creating the config.cfg file for example4.cpp pay close attention to the name given in the last line of the file.>> exit(gen.generate(PACKAGE, "chapter2_tutorials", "chapter2_"))There is an underscore in the last parameter name "chapter2_".This will generate the file chapter2_Config.hThe example4.cpp file is looking for chapter2Config.h (no underscore).You will need to remove the underscore or add an underscore to the example4.cpp file.Not sure if this is the appropriate forum a typo mistake,The book has been a great help! Raub Camaioni

Cade Carvell Dec 13, 2022

I bought this book, only to find out it doesn't cover ROS 2.0, jsut ROS 1.0. If you are using ROS 1.0, then this book looks really good. The diagrams and text were great, just dated.

uce-techcom Nov 20, 2017

The book looks like covering lot of topics and lot examples. But when you follow it to do project, you will find the reference code for this book will miss lot of piece file, such as launch file, parameter configuration file etc. When send email to Author and ask if he can send the missing files to me, no answer. I hate it !!!

Effective Robotics Programming with ROS: Find out everything you need to know to build powerful robots with the most up-to-date ROS , Third Edition

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