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This book will help you boost your knowledge of ROS and give you advanced practical experience you can apply to your ROS robot platforms

This is the only book that offers you step-by-step instructions to solidify your ROS understanding and gain experience using ROS tools

From eminent authors, this book offers you a plethora of fun-filled examples to make your own quadcopter, turtlebot, and two-armed robots

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The visionaries who created ROS developed a framework for robotics centered on the commonality of robotic systems and exploited this commonality in ROS to expedite the development of future robotic systems. From the fundamental concepts to advanced practical experience, this book will provide you with an incremental knowledge of the ROS framework, the backbone of the robotics evolution. ROS standardizes many layers of robotics functionality from low-level device drivers to process control to message passing to software package management. This book provides step-by-step examples of mobile, armed, and flying robots, describing the ROS implementation as the basic model for other robots of these types. By controlling these robots, whether in simulation or in reality, you will use ROS to drive, move, and fly robots using ROS control.

What you will learn

Get to know the fundamentals of ROS and apply its concepts to real robot examples

Control a mobile robot to navigate autonomously in an environment

Model your robot designs using URDF and Xacro, and operate them in a ROS Gazebo simulation

Control a 7 degree-of-freedom robot arm for visual servoing

Fly a quadcopter to autonomous waypoints

Gain working knowledge of ROS tools such as Gazebo, rviz, rqt, and Move-It

Control robots with mobile devices and controller boards

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Blcros97 Sep 22, 2016

More than any other focus, I have read though Chapter 6: "Wobbling Robot Arms Using Joint Control". Whether this is the beginning of a hobby, or you have a passion for robotics, this is a succinct and well organized reference tool designed to help you succeed in the topics offered. I say this now with firsthand experience with Baxter and the simulator in Gazebo.I've always had an intrigue towards the world of robotics, but these past few months have served as an incredible foundation. This book was an immense contributing factor. Even through browsing the other chapters with limited knowledge, I can recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about ROS.Thank you Carol and Thomas.

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Kimberly Hambuchen Oct 15, 2016

Let me start this review by saying I've worked with ROS since 2011, and recently taught an introductory robotics course in which I briefly covered ROS. This book is very detailed on the tools ROS provides and gives excellent explanations of the functions for each tool/command described.The introductory chapters provide good information on why ROS is so important, how to use the common tools in the ROS environment, and instructions on how to use these tools. Often, the authors provide hints and suggestions on how to manage errors that are common upon install and use, which is very helpful for those new to ROS or learning ROS on their own. Most of the coverage is embedded in running examples, and while I would appreciate a chapter that explains the tools before diving into using them, the setup of the chapters still works for learning about the system.All of the common tools are covered, such as rqt and Rviz, but the authors also delve into using Gazebo, MoveIt! and ros_control. This book definitely covers more than just "ROS" and can serve as the main text for an entire class on ROS. It is assumed that the user of this text has a cursory knowledge of robotics, such as PID control and navigation for mobile robots, but many items are explained briefly for the user. There is also in-depth coverage of sensory data, what to do with that data and how it can be helpful in the control of robots.The highlight of this book is that it covers multiple types of robots, and how to use their simulations and control them. Mobile robots (TurtleBot), manipulators (Baxter) and UAVs are all covered in multiple chapters. There are also excellent explanations of TF, MoveIt! and RViz. I would like to see more about the catkin system and a deeper explanation of the ROS package system, but this text covers the basics of those.The authors also present many commonly used ROS packages and how to interact with those. There are also very good instructions for using Ubuntu 14.04 along the way, and again, sections that provide troubleshooting suggestions that lend to common errors and issues that can pop up when using that ROS on that OS.If I were to prepare for a semester-long ROS class, I would definitely use this book as the main text. I think this book can provide a very good introductory session to ROS, and would expect that after working through the entire text, students would be able to go about creating ROS packages for a robot, Gazebo simulations of the robot and user interfaces for commanding and interacting with that robot.

Shweta Gupte Sep 19, 2016

This is a great book for someone looking to get started with ROS and go all the way to implementing a complete project using ROS. It starts with detailed step-by-step instructions for installing and setting up ROS and goes on to cover all the basic concepts including catkin workspaces, nodes, topics, services, messages, etc.The book focuses on learning through hands-on practice. It contains detailed code snippets to get you started with coding. The book introduces different simulation and visualization tools along with their setup guidelines. It covers Turtlesim, Gazebo, rviz etc.The examples used here cover a variety of robot types. Starting with a simulated Turtlebot, the books goes on the use more complex examples using 7 DOF manipulator robot and quadrotors. The book has good references for further study.

John Hudson Dec 28, 2016

This guide to ROS accomplished everything it intended to do, and served as an excellent intro to the world of embedded Linux and robotics. Highly recommended.

Kesava Prasad May 29, 2017

great

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