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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

You're reading from   Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming Design, build, and simulate complex robots using the Robot Operating System

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551798
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to ROS and Its Package Management FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with 3D Robot Modeling in ROS 3. Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo 4. Using the ROS MoveIt! and Navigation Stack 5. Working with Pluginlib, Nodelets, and Gazebo Plugins 6. Writing ROS Controllers and Visualization Plugins 7. Interfacing I/O Boards, Sensors, and Actuators to ROS 8. Programming Vision Sensors using ROS, Open-CV, and PCL 9. Building and Interfacing Differential Drive Mobile Robot Hardware in ROS 10. Exploring the Advanced Capabilities of ROS-MoveIt! 11. ROS for Industrial Robots 12. Troubleshooting and Best Practices in ROS Index

Step 1 – Launching the Setup Assistant tool

  • To start the MoveIt! Setup Assistant tool, we can use the following command:
    $ roslaunch moveit_setup_assistant setup_assistant.launch
    
  • This will bring up a window with two choices: Create New MoveIt! Configuration Package or Edit Existing MoveIt! Configuration Package. Here we are creating a new package, so we need that option. If we have a MoveIt! package already, then we can select the second option.
  • Click on the button Create New MoveIt! Configuration Package, which will bring a new screen, as shown next:
    Step 1 – Launching the Setup Assistant tool

    Figure 4 : MoveIt Setup Assistant

  • In this step, the wizard asks for the URDF model of the new robot. To give the URDF file, click on the Browse button and navigate to mastering_ros_robot_description_pkg/urdf/ seven_dof_arm.xacro. Choose this file and press the Load button to load the URDF. We can either give the robot model as pure URDF or xacro, if we give xacro, the tool will convert to URDF internally.
  • If the robot model is successfully...
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