- ROS Robotics Projects
- ROS Robotics Projects
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with ROS Robotics Application Development
- 2. Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV and Dynamixel Servos
- Overview of the project
- Hardware and software prerequisites
- Interfacing Dynamixel with ROS
- Creating face tracker ROS packages
- 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 pan controller configuration file
- The servo parameters configuration file
- The face tracker controller node
- Creating CMakeLists.txt
- Testing the face tracker control package
- Bringing all the nodes together
- Fixing the bracket and setting up the circuit
- The final run
- Questions
- Summary
- 3. Building a Siri-Like Chatbot in ROS
- Social robots
- Building social robots
- Prerequisites
- Getting started with AIML
- Questions
- Summary
- 4. Controlling Embedded Boards Using ROS
- 5. Teleoperate a Robot Using Hand Gestures
- 6. Object Detection and Recognition
- 7. Deep Learning Using ROS and TensorFlow
- 8. ROS on MATLAB and Android
- Getting started with the ROS-MATLAB interface
- Setting Robotics Toolbox in MATLAB
- Communicating from MATLAB to a ROS network
- Controlling a ROS robot from MATLAB
- Getting started with Android and its ROS interface
- Installing the ROS-Android interface
- Playing with ROS-Android applications
- Code walkthrough
- Creating basic applications using the ROS-Android interface
- Questions
- Summary
- 9. Building an Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Robot specification and design overview
- Designing and selecting the motors and wheels for the robot
- Building 2D and 3D models of the robot body
- Simulating the robot model in Gazebo
- Mathematical model of a differential drive robot
- Designing and building actual robot hardware
- Interfacing robot hardware with ROS
- Gmapping and localization in Chefbot
- Questions
- Summary
- 10. Creating a Self-Driving Car Using ROS
- Getting started with self-driving cars
- Functional block diagram of a typical self-driving car
- Software block diagram of self-driving cars
- Simulating the Velodyne LIDAR
- Interfacing Velodyne sensors with ROS
- Simulating a laser scanner
- Explaining the simulation code
- Interfacing laser scanners with ROS
- Simulating stereo and mono cameras in Gazebo
- Interfacing cameras with ROS
- Simulating GPS in Gazebo
- Simulating IMU on Gazebo
- Interfacing IMUs with ROS
- Simulating an ultrasonic sensor in Gazebo
- Low-cost LIDAR sensors
- Simulating a self-driving car with sensors in Gazebo
- Interfacing a DBW car with ROS
- Introducing the Udacity open source self-driving car project
- Questions
- Summary
- 11. Teleoperating a Robot Using a VR Headset and Leap Motion
- Getting started with a VR headset and Leap Motion
- Project prerequisites
- Design and working of the project
- Installing the Leap Motion SDK on Ubuntu 14.04.5
- Visualizing Leap Motion data in Rviz
- Creating a teleoperation node using the Leap Motion controller
- Building a ROS-VR Android application
- Working with the ROS-VR application and interfacing with Gazebo
- Working with TurtleBot simulation in VR
- Troubleshooting the ROS-VR application
- Integrating ROS-VR application and Leap Motion teleoperation
- Questions
- Summary
- 12. Controlling Your Robots over the Web
- Getting started with ROS web packages
- Setting up ROS web packages on ROS Kinetic
- Installing tf2_web_republisher on ROS Kinetic
- Teleoperating and visualizing a robot on a web browser
- Controlling robot joints from a web browser
- Web-based speech-controlled robot
- Running a speech-controlled robot application
- Questions
- Summary
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