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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 2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots FREE CHAPTER 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

Working with ChefBot Python nodes and launch files

We have already set ChefBot ROS packages in Intel's NUC PC and uploaded the embedded code to the LaunchPad board. The next step is to put the NUC PC on the robot, configure the remote connection from the laptop to the robot, test each node, and work with ChefBot's launch files to perform autonomous navigation.

The main device we should have before working with ChefBot is a good wireless router. The robot and the remote laptop have to connect across the same network. If the robot PC and remote laptop are on the same network, the user can connect from the remote laptop to the robot PC through SSH using its IP. Before putting the robot PC in the robot, we should connect the robot PC to the wireless network so that once it's connected to the wireless network, it will remember the connection details. When the robot powers...

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