Robotics is a broad interdisciplinary engineering field with immense application today. Unlike the standard classification of mobile and immobile robots, they're also classified based on applications for mobile robotics, aerial robotics, marine, and space robotics. The most common robots among them are the mobile robots that maneuver around the environment by trying to understand and learn the changes in it. They equally enjoy the environment, performing necessary actions that the application demands. Another common set of static robots that are used and are of huge demand in industries are robot arms. They were initially used to carry out lifting heavy payloads where the tasks were usually automatic and repetitive. But these manipulators have grown intelligent enough to understand the environment and objects of interest in it and...
ROS Robotics Projects,
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Overview of this book
Nowadays, heavy industrial robots placed in workcells are being replaced by new age robots called cobots, which don't need workcells. They are used in manufacturing, retail, banks, energy, and healthcare, among other domains. One of the major reasons for this rapid growth in the robotics market is the introduction of an open source robotics framework called the Robot Operating System (ROS).
This book covers projects in the latest ROS distribution, ROS Melodic Morenia with Ubuntu Bionic (18.04). Starting with the fundamentals, this updated edition of ROS Robotics Projects introduces you to ROS-2 and helps you understand how it is different from ROS-1. You'll be able to model and build an industrial mobile manipulator in ROS and simulate it in Gazebo 9. You'll then gain insights into handling complex robot applications using state machines and working with multiple robots at a time. This ROS book also introduces you to new and popular hardware such as Nvidia's Jetson Nano, Asus Tinker Board, and Beaglebone Black, and allows you to explore interfacing with ROS. You'll learn as you build interesting ROS projects such as self-driving cars, making use of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and other key AI concepts.
By the end of the book, you'll have gained the confidence to build interesting and intricate projects with ROS.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with ROS
Introduction to ROS-2 and Its Capabilities
Building an Industrial Mobile Manipulator
Handling Complex Robot Tasks Using State Machines
Building an Industrial Application
Multi-Robot Collaboration
ROS on Embedded Platforms and Their Control
Reinforcement Learning and Robotics
Deep Learning Using ROS and TensorFlow
Creating a Self-Driving Car Using ROS
Teleoperating Robots Using a VR Headset and Leap Motion
Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV, and Dynamixel Servos
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