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Learning ROS for Robotics Programming Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning ROS for Robotics Programming Second Edition Take control of the Linux based Robot Operating System, and discover the tools, libraries, and conventions you need to create your own robots without the hassle.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987580
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with ROS Hydro FREE CHAPTER 2. ROS Architecture and Concepts 3. Visualization and Debug Tools 4. Using Sensors and Actuators with ROS 5. Computer Vision 6. Point Clouds 7. 3D Modeling and Simulation 8. The Navigation Stack – Robot Setups 9. The Navigation Stack – Beyond Setups 10. Manipulation with MoveIt! Index

Chapter 2. ROS Architecture and Concepts

Once you have installed ROS, you certainly must be thinking, "OK, I have installed it, and now what?" In this chapter, you will learn the structure of ROS and the parts it is made up of. Furthermore, you will start to create nodes and packages and use ROS with examples using Turtlesim.

The ROS architecture has been designed and divided into three sections or levels of concepts:

  • The Filesystem level
  • The Computation Graph level
  • The Community level

The first level is the Filesystem level. In this level, a group of concepts are used to explain how ROS is internally formed, the folder structure, and the minimum number of files that it needs to work.

The second level is the Computation Graph level where communication between processes and systems happens. In this section, we will see all the concepts and systems that ROS has to set up systems, handle all the processes, communicate with more than a single computer, and so on.

The third level...

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