Effective Robotics Programming with ROS: Find out everything you need to know to build powerful robots with the most up-to-date ROS , Third Edition

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This comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow guide will help you find your way through the ROS framework

Successfully design and simulate your 3D robot model and use powerful robotics algorithms and tools to program and set up your robots with an unparalleled experience by using the exciting new features from Robot Kinetic

Use the latest version of gazebo simulator, OpenCV 3.0, and C++11 standard for your own algorithms

Description

Building and programming a robot can be cumbersome and time-consuming, but not when you have the right collection of tools, libraries, and more importantly expert collaboration. ROS enables collaborative software development and offers an unmatched simulated environment that simplifies the entire robot building process. This book is packed with hands-on examples that will help you program your robot and give you complete solutions using open source ROS libraries and tools. It also shows you how to use virtual machines and Docker containers to simplify the installation of Ubuntu and the ROS framework, so you can start working in an isolated and control environment without changing your regular computer setup. It starts with the installation and basic concepts, then continues with more complex modules available in ROS such as sensors and actuators integration (drivers), navigation and mapping (so you can create an autonomous mobile robot), manipulation, Computer Vision, perception in 3D with PCL, and more. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to leverage all the ROS Kinetic features to build a fully fledged robot for all your needs.

Who is this book for?

This book is suitable for an ROS beginner as well as an experienced ROS roboticist or ROS user or developer who is curious to learn ROS Kinetic and its features to make an autonomous Robot. The book is also suitable for those who want to integrate sensors and embedded systems with other software and tools using ROS as a framework.

What you will learn

• Understand the concepts of ROS, the command-line tools, visualization GUIs, and how to debug ROS

• Connect robot sensors and actuators to ROS

• Obtain and analyze data from cameras and 3D sensors

• Use Gazebo for robot/sensor and environment simulation

• Design a robot and see how to make it map the environment, navigate autonomously, and manipulate objects in the environment using MoveIt!

• Add vision capabilities to the robot using OpenCV 3.0

• Add 3D perception capabilities to the robot using the latest version of PCL

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About the 3 authors

Mahtani

Anil Mahtani is a computer scientist who has dedicated an important part of his career to underwater robotics. He first started working in the field with his master thesis, where he developed a software architecture for a low-cost ROV. During the development of his thesis, he also became the team leader and lead developer of AVORA, a team of university students that designed and developed an autonomous underwater vehicle for the Students Autonomous Underwater Challenge Europe (SAUC-E) in 2012. That same year, Anil Mahtani completed his thesis and his MSc in Computer Science at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and then became a Software Engineer at SeeByte Ltd, a world leader in smart software solutions for underwater systems. In 2015, he joined Dell Secureworks as a Software Engineer, where he applies his knowledge and skills toward developing intrusion detection and prevention systems. During his time at SeeByte Ltd, Anil Mahtani played a key role in the development of several semi-autonomous and autonomous underwater systems for the military and oil and gas industries. In those projects, he was heavily involved in the development of autonomy systems, the design of distributed software architectures, and low-level software development and also contributed in providing Computer Vision solutions for front-looking sonar imagery. At SeeByte Ltd, he also achieved the position of project manager, managing a team of engineers developing and maintaining the internal core C++ libraries. His professional interests lie mainly in software engineering, algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, networks, and operating systems. Anil's main role in robotics is to provide efficient and robust software solutions, addressing not only the current problems at hand but also foreseeing future problems or possible enhancements. Given his experience, he is also an asset when dealing with Computer Vision, machine learning, or control problems. Anil has also interests in DIY and electronics, and he has developed several Arduino libraries, which he has contributed back to the community.

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Fernandez Perdomo

Enrique Fernandez Perdomo has a PhD in Computer Engineer from the ULPGC. In his PhD thesis, he investigated path planning algorithms for Autonomous Underwater Gliders, and did an internship at the CIRS/VICOROB research group at the University of Girona. He also worked with ground robots and is currently a senior Robotics Engineer in the Autonomy Team at Clearpath Robotics since 2015. He was a member of the navigation department at PAL Robotics since 2013. He has good programming skills in C++ and Python, and develops wheeled controllers, a tele-operation infrastructure for both the wheeled and biped robots (REEM and REEM-C), SLAM algorithms, laser and visual localization, and autonomous navigation based on the ROS navigation stack. Finally, he worked on the project that develop a low-cost mobile base for high payload and retail applications, which is used on the TiaGo robot. Now at Clearpath Robotics, he works on SLAM and localization algorithms and has participated in the OTTO project.

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Sánchez

Luis Snchez has completed his dual master's degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has collaborated with different research groups as the Institute for Technological Development and Innovation (IDETIC), the Oceanic Platform of Canary Islands (PLOCAN), and the Institute of Applied Microelectronics (IUMA) where he actually researches on imaging super-resolution algorithms. His professional interests lie in Computer Vision, signal processing, and electronic design applied on robotics systems. For this reason, he joined the AVORA team, a group of young engineers and students working on the development of Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (AUV) from scratch. Inside this project, Luis has started developing acoustic and Computer Vision systems, extracting information from different sensors such as hydrophones, sonar, or camera. With a strong background gained in marine technology, Luis cofounded Subsea Mechatronics, a young start-up, where he works on developing remotely operated and autonomous vehicles for underwater environments. Here's what Dario Sosa Cabrera, a marine technologies engineer and entrepreneur (and the cofounder and maker of LPA Fabrika: Gran Canaria Maker Space) has to say about Luis: "He is very enthusiastic and an engineer in multiple disciplines. He is responsible for his work. He can manage himself and can take up responsibilities as a team leader, as demonstrated at the euRathlon competition. His background in electronics and telecommunications allows him to cover a wide range of expertise from signal processing and software, to electronic design and fabrication." Luis has participated as a technical reviewer of the previous version of Learning ROS for Robotics Programming and as a cowriter of the second edition.

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Christopher Adamson Aug 04, 2017

For a beginner ROS developer, this is a good book for an intro, and has helpful documentation on general ROS concepts and specific ROS technologies such as the Navigation stack.

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Neil John Jan 27, 2017

Hi EveryoneI am Lentin Joseph, Technical reviewer of this book and author of few books in ROS .Actually, this book is the continuation of a book called Learning ROS for Robotics Programming which is pretty popular in ROS community. I can recommend you guys, this will be very useful to people who are wanted to work with ROS.This book mainly discussing ROS concepts using the latest version of ROS called ROS Kinetic and teaches you to create interactive project using ROS. Also, book is written in a simple language so that everyone can understand :)

Amazon Customer Jun 02, 2017

This book has better structure and formatting than the ROS wiki tutorials. The examples are well executed but, I recommend following along with the ROS wiki page tutorials. Sometimes the ROS wiki gives extra information.My school's online edition of this book has a typo. When creating the config.cfg file for example4.cpp pay close attention to the name given in the last line of the file.>> exit(gen.generate(PACKAGE, "chapter2_tutorials", "chapter2_"))There is an underscore in the last parameter name "chapter2_".This will generate the file chapter2_Config.hThe example4.cpp file is looking for chapter2Config.h (no underscore).You will need to remove the underscore or add an underscore to the example4.cpp file.Not sure if this is the appropriate forum a typo mistake,The book has been a great help! Raub Camaioni

Cade Carvell Dec 13, 2022

I bought this book, only to find out it doesn't cover ROS 2.0, jsut ROS 1.0. If you are using ROS 1.0, then this book looks really good. The diagrams and text were great, just dated.

uce-techcom Nov 20, 2017

The book looks like covering lot of topics and lot examples. But when you follow it to do project, you will find the reference code for this book will miss lot of piece file, such as launch file, parameter configuration file etc. When send email to Author and ask if he can send the missing files to me, no answer. I hate it !!!

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