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ROS Robotics By Example

You're reading from ROS Robotics By Example Bring life to your robot using ROS robotic applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782175193

Length 428 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Robotics

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with ROS FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Your First Two-Wheeled ROS Robot (in Simulation)

3. Driving Around with TurtleBot

4. Navigating the World with TurtleBot

5. Creating Your First Robot Arm (in Simulation)

6. Wobbling Robot Arms Using Joint Control

7. Making a Robot Fly

8. Controlling Your Robots with External Devices

9. Flying a Mission with Crazyflie

10. Extending Your ROS Abilities

Index

Loading TurtleBot simulator software

This section deals with loading software packages for the TurtleBot simulator. The physical TurtleBot is not involved because these software packages are loaded on your laptop or desktop computer. It is assumed that Ubuntu 14.04 and ROS Indigo software are installed on the computer that you will use for the simulation. This installation is described in the Installing and launching ROS section in Chapter 1, Getting Started with ROS.

The procedure to load the TurtleBot software on your computer is documented in the tutorial at: http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot/Tutorials/indigo/PC%20Installation

The installation described on the website will apply to the real TurtleBot netbook also, but we will only consider the simulation here. In a terminal window, type the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-turtlebot ros-indigo-turtlebot-apps ros-indigo-turtlebot-interactions ros-indigo-turtlebot-simulator ros-indigo-kobuki-ftdi ros-indigo-rocon-remocon ros...

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