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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition

You're reading from   Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition Best practices and troubleshooting solutions when working with ROS

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Published in Oct 2021
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ISBN-13 9781801071024
Length 594 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received his Master's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Automation Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II.nnCurrently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also a member of PRISMA Lab where he is involved in different research projects focused on industrial and service robotics in which he has developed several ROS-based applications integrating robot perception and control.
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Preface 1. Section 1 – ROS Programming Essentials
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to ROS FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ROS Programming 4. Section 2 – ROS Robot Simulation
5. Chapter 3: Working with ROS for 3D Modeling 6. Chapter 4: Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo 7. Chapter 5: Simulating Robots Using ROS, CoppeliaSim, and Webots 8. Chapter 6: Using the ROS MoveIt! and Navigation Stack 9. Chapter 7: Exploring the Advanced Capabilities of ROS MoveIt! 10. Chapter 8: ROS for Aerial Robots 11. Section 3 – ROS Robot Hardware Prototyping
12. Chapter 9: Interfacing I/O Board Sensors and Actuators to ROS 13. Chapter 10: Programming Vision Sensors Using ROS, OpenCV, and PCL 14. Chapter 11: Building and Interfacing Differential Drive Mobile Robot Hardware in ROS 15. Section 4 – Advanced ROS Programming
16. Chapter 12: Working with pluginlib, nodelets, and Gazebo Plugins 17. Chapter 13: Writing ROS Controllers and Visualization Plugins 18. Chapter 14: Using ROS in MATLAB and Simulink 19. Chapter 15: ROS for Industrial Robots 20. Chapter 16: Troubleshooting and Best Practices in ROS 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the RViz tool and its plugins

The RViz tool is an official 3D visualization tool of ROS. Almost all kinds of data from sensors can be viewed through this tool. RViz will be installed along with the full ROS desktop installation. Let's launch RViz and see the basic components present in RViz. Make sure you are executing these commands in separate terminals (or tabs).

Start roscore:

roscore

Start rviz:

rviz

The important sections of the RViz GUI are marked, and the uses of each section are shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 13.4 – Sections of RViz

We have seen how to work with RViz in ROS, and have seen different sections in RViz. In the following sections, we will provide a detailed explanation of each section of RViz.

The Displays panel

The panel on the left side of RViz is called the Displays panel. The Displays panel contains a list of the display plugins of RViz and its properties. The main use of...

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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received his Master's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Automation Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also a member of PRISMA Lab where he is involved in different research projects focused on industrial and service robotics in which he has developed several ROS-based applications integrating robot perception and control.
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