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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554713
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Interfacing Dynamixel with ROS

If you successfully configured the Dynamixel servo, then it will be very easy to interface Dynamixel with ROS running on Ubuntu. As we've already discussed, there is no need of an FTDI driver in Ubuntu because it's already built into the kernel. The only thing we have to do is install the ROS Dynamixel driver packages.

The ROS Dynamixel packages are available at the following link:

http://wiki.ros.org/dynamixel_motor

You can install the Dynamixel ROS packages using commands we'll look at now.

Installing the ROS dynamixel_motor packages

The ROS dynamixel_motor package stack is a dependency for the face tracker project, so we can install it to the ros_project_dependencies_ws ROS workspace.

Open a Terminal and switch to the src folder of the workspace:

$ cd ~/ros_project_dependencies_ws/src

Clone the latest Dynamixel driver packages from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/arebgun/dynamixel_motor

Remember to do a catkin_make to build the entire packages...

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ROS Robotics Projects
Published in: Mar 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781783554713
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