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Robot Operating System Cookbook

You're reading from   Robot Operating System Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you master advanced ROS concepts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987443
Length 484 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kumar Bipin Kumar Bipin
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with ROS FREE CHAPTER 2. ROS Architecture and Concepts I 3. ROS Architecture and Concepts – II 4. ROS Visualization and Debugging Tools 5. Accessing Sensors and Actuators through ROS 6. ROS Modeling and Simulation 7. Mobile Robot in ROS 8. The Robotic Arm in ROS 9. Micro Aerial Vehicles in ROS 10. ROS-Industrial (ROS-I) 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Autonomous navigation of mobile robots – avoiding obstacles

The ROS navigation stack is the most powerful software package that allows mobile robots to move from one place to another safely. The goal of the navigation stack is to produce a safe path, in other words, a collision-free path for the robot to execute by processing the data from sensors and the environment map. One of the great functionalities of the navigation stack is obstacle avoidance. We can easily view this feature by adding an object in front of the moving robot in Gazebo.

Getting ready

A few predefined shapes or obstacles can be added in Gazebo by using the Insert model option from GUI. The navigation stack detects the obstacle and automatically creates...

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