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ROS Robotics Projects,

You're reading from   ROS Robotics Projects, Build and control robots powered by the Robot Operating System, machine learning, and virtual reality

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649326
Length 456 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ramkumar Gandhinathan Ramkumar Gandhinathan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with ROS FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to ROS-2 and Its Capabilities 3. Building an Industrial Mobile Manipulator 4. Handling Complex Robot Tasks Using State Machines 5. Building an Industrial Application 6. Multi-Robot Collaboration 7. ROS on Embedded Platforms and Their Control 8. Reinforcement Learning and Robotics 9. Deep Learning Using ROS and TensorFlow 10. Creating a Self-Driving Car Using ROS 11. Teleoperating Robots Using a VR Headset and Leap Motion 12. Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV, and Dynamixel Servos 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

Let's look into the technical requirements for this chapter:

  • ROS Melodic Morenia on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
  • Timelines and test platform:
    • Estimated learning time: On average, 100 minutes
    • Project build time (inclusive of compile and runtime): On average, 45-90 minutes (depending on setting up hardware boards with the indicated requirements)
    • Project test platform: HP Pavilion laptop (Intel® Coreâ„¢ i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00 GHz × 4 with 8 GB Memory and 64-bit OS, GNOME-3.28.2)

The code for this chapter is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ROS-Robotics-Projects-SecondEdition/tree/master/chapter_12_ws.

Let's begin by looking at the overview of the project.

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