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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

You're reading from   Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming Program highly autonomous and AI-capable mobile robots powered by ROS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838551308
Length 432 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Physical Robot Assembly and Testing
2. Assembling the Robot FREE CHAPTER 3. Unit Testing of GoPiGo3 4. Getting Started with ROS 5. Section 2: Robot Simulation with Gazebo
6. Creating the Virtual Two-Wheeled ROS Robot 7. Simulating Robot Behavior with Gazebo 8. Section 3: Autonomous Navigation Using SLAM
9. Programming in ROS - Commands and Tools 10. Robot Control and Simulation 11. Virtual SLAM and Navigation Using Gazebo 12. SLAM for Robot Navigation 13. Section 4: Adaptive Robot Behavior Using Machine Learning
14. Applying Machine Learning in Robotics 15. Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym 16. Achieve a Goal through Reinforcement Learning 17. Assessment 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. What is the format of the URDF model?

A) It is a text file.
B) JSON.
C) XML.

  1. How many links and joints does the URDF model of GoPiGo3 have?

A) Four links (robot body, caster, left, and right wheels) and two joints
B) Three links (robot body, left, and right wheels) and two joints
C) Three links (robot body, left, and right wheels) and three joints

  1. Which tag in the URDF model can you use to specify the color of a link?

A) <visual>
B) <geometry>
C) <material>

  1. Is it mandatory to group file types by folders (SRC, URDF, RViz, launch) in an ROS package?

A) No, the only mandatory condition is to put the package under ~/catkin_ws/src/.
B) It is only recommended to make a clean package structure.
C) No, but if you do so, you have to declare the locations in the package.xml configuration file.

  1. Do you always need to run roscore in a Terminal to launch...
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