ROS robotics projects build a variety of awesome robots that can see, sense, move, and do a lot more using the powerful Robot Operating System

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Joseph, Lentin (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing 2017.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40755812*spi
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  • Cover ; Copyright ; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgements; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Customer Feedback; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with ROS Robotics Application Development ; Getting started with ROS; ROS distributions; Supported operating systems; Robots and sensors supported by ROS; Why ROS; Fundamentals of ROS; The filesystem level; The computation graph level; The ROS community level; Communication in ROS; ROS client libraries; ROS tools; Rviz (ROS Visualizer); rqt_plot; rqt_graph; Simulators of ROS; Installing ROS kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; Getting started with the installationConfiguring Ubuntu repositories; Setting up source.list; Setting up keys; Installing ROS; Initializing rosdep; Setting the ROS environment; Getting rosinstall; Setting ROS on VirtualBox; Setting the ROS workspace; Opportunities for ROS in industries and research; Questions; Summary; Chapter 2: Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV and Dynamixel Servos ; Overview of the project; Hardware and software prerequisites; Installing dependent ROS packages; Installing the usb_cam ROS package; Creating a ROS workspace for dependencies; Interfacing Dynamixel with ROSInstalling the ROS dynamixel_motor packages; Creating face tracker ROS packages; The interface between ROS and OpenCV; Working with the face-tracking ROS package; Understanding the face tracker code; Understanding CMakeLists.txt; The track.yaml file; The launch files; Running the face tracker node; The face_tracker_control package; The start_dynamixel launch file; The pan controller launch file; The pan controller configuration file; The servo parameters configuration file; The face tracker controller node; Creating CMakeLists.txt; Testing the face tracker control packageBringing all the nodes together; Fixing the bracket and setting up the circuit; The final run; Questions; Summary; Chapter 3: Building a Siri-Like Chatbot in ROS ; Social robots; Building social robots; Prerequisites; Getting started with AIML; AIML tags; The PyAIML interpreter; Installing PyAIML on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; Playing with PyAIML; Loading multiple AIML files; Creating an AIML bot in ROS; The AIML ROS package; Installing the ROS sound_play package; Installing the dependencies of sound_play; Installing the sound_play ROS package; Creating the ros_aiml packageThe aiml_server node; The AIML client node; The aiml_tts client node; The AIML speech recognition node; start_chat.launch; start_tts_chat.launch; start_speech_chat.launch; Questions; Summary; Chapter 4: Controlling Embedded Boards Using ROS ; Getting started with popular embedded boards; An introduction to Arduino boards; How to choose an Arduino board for your robot; Getting started with STM32 and TI Launchpads; The Tiva C Launchpad; Introducing the Raspberry Pi; How to choose a Raspberry Pi board for your robot; The Odroid board; Interfacing Arduino with ROS.