Learning Robotics using Python
Second Edition
Second Edition
Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Getting Started with Robot Operating System
- Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots
- Modeling the Differential Drive Robot
- Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS
- Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits
- Technical requirements
- Specifications of the ChefBot's hardware
- Block diagram of the robot
- How ChefBot’s hardware works’?
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller
- Technical requirements
- Interfacing DC geared motor to Tiva C LaunchPad
- Interfacing quadrature encoder with Tiva C Launchpad
- Working with Dynamixel actuators
- Working with ultrasonic distance sensors
- Working with the IR proximity sensor
- Working with Inertial Measurement Units
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS
- Technical requirements
- List of robotic vision sensors and image libraries
- Introduction to OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL
- Programming Kinect with Python using ROS, OpenCV, and OpenNI
- Interfacing Orbbec Astra with ROS
- Working with point clouds using Kinect, ROS, OpenNI, and PCL
- Conversion of point cloud data to laser scan data
- Working with SLAM using ROS and Kinect
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Building ChefBot Hardware and the Integration of Software
- Technical requirements
- Building ChefBot hardware
- Configuring ChefBot PC and setting ChefBot ROS packages
- Interfacing ChefBot sensors to the Tiva-C LaunchPad
- Writing a ROS Python driver for ChefBot
- Understanding ChefBot ROS launch files
- Working with ChefBot Python nodes and launch files
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python
- Assessments
- Chapter 1, Getting Started with the Robot Operating System
- Chapter 2, Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots
- Chapter 3, Modeling the Differential Drive Robot
- Chapter 4, Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS
- Chapter 5, Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits
- Chapter 6, Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller
- Chapter 7, Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS
- Chapter 8, Building ChefBot Hardware and Integration of Software
- Chapter 9, Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python
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