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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

Introduction to single-board computers

In the previous sections, we looked at a series of microcontroller boards with varied features, which have all of the components embedded in a single chip. What if you want your robot or drone to perform modern-day computations for path planning or obstacle avoidance? Microcontroller boards help us read sensor signals and control the actuator signals, provided they follow simple math libraries for understanding and processing sensors.

What if you want to perform intense computation, store incoming sensor values over time, and then perform computations on such stored values? That is where SBC comes into play. SBCs can be loaded with an OS and could perform computations like a modern-day desktop, in a small form factor setup. They can't immediately replicate a modern-day computer as desktop computers nowadays are attached to additional...

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