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Learning Robotics using Python. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623315
Pages 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
Profile icon Lentin Joseph
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System 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

Understanding ChefBot ROS launch files

We will now look at the functions of each of the launch files of the ChefBot_bringup package:

  • robot_standalone.launch: The main function of this launch file is to start nodes such as launchpad_node, pid_velocity, diff_tf, and twist_to_motor to get sensor values from the robot and to send the command velocity to the robot.
  • keyboard_teleop.launch: This launch file will start teleoperation using the keyboard. It starts the ChefBot_keyboard_teleop.py node to perform the keyboard teleoperation.
  • 3dsensor.launch : This file will launch the Kinect OpenNI drivers and start publishing the RGB and depth stream. It will also start the depth-to-laser scanner node, which will convert point cloud data to laser scan data.
  • gmapping_demo.launch: This launch file will start the SLAM gmapping nodes to map the area surrounding the robot.
  • amcl_demo.launch: Using...
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