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Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition

You're reading from   Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, Third edition Best practices and troubleshooting solutions when working with ROS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071024
Length 594 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding the ROS teleop node

The ROS teleop node publishes the ROS Twist command by taking keyboard inputs. From this node, we can generate both linear and angular velocity, and there is already a standard teleop node implementation available; we can simply reuse the node.

The teleop is implemented in the diff_wheeled_robot_control package. The script folder contains the diff_wheeled_robot_key node, which is the teleop node. As per usual, you can download this package from the previous Git repository. At this point, you reach this package with the following command:

roscd diff_wheeled_robot_control  

To successfully compile and use this package, you may need to install the joy_node package:

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-joy

Here is the launch file called keyboard_teleop.launch to start the teleop node:

 <launch> 
  <!-- differential_teleop_key already has its own built in velocity smoother --> 
  <node pkg="diff_wheeled_robot_control...
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