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ROS Robotics Projects

You're reading from ROS Robotics Projects Make your robots see, sense, and interact with cool and engaging projects with Robotic Operating System

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783554713

Length 452 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Lentin Joseph

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with ROS Robotics Application Development

2. Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV and Dynamixel Servos FREE CHAPTER

3. Building a Siri-Like Chatbot in ROS

4. Controlling Embedded Boards Using ROS

5. Teleoperate a Robot Using Hand Gestures

6. Object Detection and Recognition

7. Deep Learning Using ROS and TensorFlow

8. ROS on MATLAB and Android

9. Building an Autonomous Mobile Robot

10. Creating a Self-Driving Car Using ROS

11. Teleoperating a Robot Using a VR Headset and Leap Motion

12. Controlling Your Robots over the Web

Installing the Leap Motion SDK on Ubuntu 14.04.5

In this project, we have chosen Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and ROS Indigo because the Leap Motion SDK will smoothly work with this combination. The Leap Motion SDK is not fully supported by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; if there are any further fixes from the company, this code will work on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with ROS Kinetic.

The Leap Motion SDK is the core of the Leap Motion controller. The Leap Motion controller has two IR cameras facing upwards and also has several IR projectors. This is interfaced with a PC, and the Leap SDK runs on the PC, which has drivers for the controller. It also has algorithms to process the hand image to produce the joint values of each finger joint.

Here is the procedure to install the Leap Motion SDK in Ubuntu:

Download the SDK from https://www.leapmotion.com/setup/linux; you can extract this package and you will find two DEB files that can be installed on Ubuntu.
Open Terminal on the extracted location and install the DEB file using...

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Authors (1)

Lentin Joseph

Lentin Joseph

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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