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Learning Robotics using Python

You're reading from   Learning Robotics using Python Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623315
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots 3. Modeling the Differential Drive Robot 4. Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS 5. Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits 6. Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller 7. Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS 8. Building ChefBot Hardware and the Integration of Software 9. Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Modeling the Differential Drive Robot

In this chapter, we will look at how to model the differential drive robot and create the URDF model of this robot in ROS. The main use case of the robot that we are going to design in this chapter is to serve food and drinks in hotels and restaurants. The robot is named Chefbot. We will cover the complete modeling of this robot in this chapter.

We will look at the CAD design of various mechanical components used in this robot and how to assemble them. We will look at the 2D and 3D CAD design of this robot and will discuss how to create the URDF model of the robot.

The actual robot model deployed in hotels may be big in size, but here we intend to build a miniature version for testing our software. If you are interested in building a robot from scratch, this chapter is for you. If you are not interested in building the robot, you can choose...

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