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ROS Robotics Projects,

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649326
Length 456 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ramkumar Gandhinathan Ramkumar Gandhinathan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Debian versus Ubuntu

Before we get into setting up ROS on these compute boards, let's try to understand the two most commonly used Linux distributions by the community—Debian and Ubuntu.

As you know, the projects in this book target ROS installed on top of Ubuntu. So, you should be familiar with Ubuntu by now. But how different is Debian? Not much—you simply need to know that Ubuntu is actually derived from Debian. Debian is one of the oldest OSes based on Linux kernels and acts as a base for most of the newer Linux distributions. Ubuntu was released by a private firm called Canonical who intended to produce an easy to use Linux distribution for daily use. The following diagram explains how Ubuntu is derived from Debian:

Ubuntu derivation from Debian

Some of the notable differences between both is in terms of software packages, ease of use or flexibility, stability...

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