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Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071024

Length 594 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Robot Framework

Concepts

Robotics

Authors (2):

Lentin Joseph

Jonathan Cacace

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – ROS Programming Essentials

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to ROS FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ROS Programming

4. Section 2 – ROS Robot Simulation

5. Chapter 3: Working with ROS for 3D Modeling

6. Chapter 4: Simulating Robots Using ROS and Gazebo

7. Chapter 5: Simulating Robots Using ROS, CoppeliaSim, and Webots

8. Chapter 6: Using the ROS MoveIt! and Navigation Stack

9. Chapter 7: Exploring the Advanced Capabilities of ROS MoveIt!

10. Chapter 8: ROS for Aerial Robots

11. Section 3 – ROS Robot Hardware Prototyping

12. Chapter 9: Interfacing I/O Board Sensors and Actuators to ROS

13. Chapter 10: Programming Vision Sensors Using ROS, OpenCV, and PCL

14. Chapter 11: Building and Interfacing Differential Drive Mobile Robot Hardware in ROS

15. Section 4 – Advanced ROS Programming

16. Chapter 12: Working with pluginlib, nodelets, and Gazebo Plugins

17. Chapter 13: Writing ROS Controllers and Visualization Plugins

18. Chapter 14: Using ROS in MATLAB and Simulink

19. Chapter 15: ROS for Industrial Robots

20. Chapter 16: Troubleshooting and Best Practices in ROS

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Getting started with MATLAB

MATLAB is a multi-platform numerical computing environment widely used by industries, universities, and research centers. MATLAB was born as a mathematical software, but now it offers a lot of additional packages for different areas, such as control design, plotting, image processing, and robotics. Every year, two new versions of MATLAB are released. The first one is called XXXXa (where XXXX is the year of the release) and it is released in March, while the second one is called XXXXb and it is released in September. In this chapter, we assume the installation of the MATLAB 2020b version. MATLAB is a proprietary product of MathWorks, and it is not free software. Usually, free licenses are distributed to students and academic institutions. You can use MATLAB on Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS. After you have launched it, the main window of MATLAB will appear with its default layout, as shown in the following screenshot:

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