ROS Robotics Projects

Lentin Joseph 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2017년 03월 13일 출간

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
1: GETTING STARTED WITH ROS ROBOTICS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
2: FACE DETECTION AND TRACKING USING ROS, OPENCV AND DYNAMIXEL SERVOS
3: BUILDING A SIRI-LIKE CHATBOT IN ROS
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
9: BUILDING AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT
10: CREATING A SELF-DRIVING CAR USING ROS
11: TELEOPERATING A ROBOT USING A VR HEADSET AND LEAP MOTION
12: CONTROLLING YOUR ROBOTS OVER THE WEB

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▶Editorial Review
ROS Robotics Projects is a practical guide to learning ROS by making interesting projects using it. The book assumes that you have some knowledge of ROS. However, if you do not have any experience with ROS, you can still learn from this book. The first chapter is dedicated to absolute beginners. ROS is widely used in robotics companies, universities, and robot research labs for designing and programming robots. If you would like to work in the robotics software domain or if you want to have a career as a robotics software engineer, this book is perfect for you.

The basic aim of this book is to teach ROS through interactive projects. The projects that we are discussing here can also be reused in your academic or industrial projects. This book handles a wide variety of new technology that can be interfaced with ROS. For example, you will see how to build a self-driving car prototype, how to build a deep-learning application using ROS, and how to build a VR application in ROS. These are only a few highlighted topics; in addition, you will find some 15 projects and applications using ROS and its libraries.

You can work with any project after meeting its prerequisites. Most of the projects can be completed without many dependencies. We are using popular and available hardware components to build most of the projects. So this will help us create almost all of these projects without much difficulty.

The book starts by discussing the basics of ROS and its variety of applications. This chapter will definitely be a starting point for absolute beginners. After this chapter, we will explore a wide variety of ROS projects.

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저자(글) Lentin Joseph

Lentin Joseph is an author, entrepreneur, electronics engineer, robotics enthusiast, machine vision expert, embedded programmer, and the founder and CEO of Qbotics Labs ( http://www.qboticslabs.com) from India.He completed his bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT), Kerala. For his final year engineering project, he made a social robot that can interact with people. The project was a huge success and was mentioned in many forms of visual and print media. The main features of this robot were that it can communicate with people and reply intelligently and has some image processing capabilities such as face, motion, and color detection. The entire project was implemented using the Python programming language. His interest in robotics, image processing, and Python started with that project.After his graduation, for three years he worked at a start-up company focusing on robotics and image processing. In the meantime, he learned to work with famous robotic software platforms such as Robot Operating System (ROS), V-REP, Actin (a robotic simulation tool), and image processing libraries such as OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL. He also knows about robot 3D designing and embedded programming on Arduino and Tiva Launchpad.After three years of work experience, he started a new company called Qbotics Labs, which mainly focuses on research to build up some great products in domains such as robotics and machine vision. He maintains a personal website ( http://www.lentinjoseph.com) and a technology blog called technolabsz ( http://www.technolabsz.com). He publishes his works on his tech blog. He was also a speaker at PyCon2013, India, on the topic Learning Robotics using Python.Lentin is the author of the books Learning Robotics Using Python (refer to http://learn-robotics.com to find out more) and Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming (refer to http://mastering-ros.com to find out more) by Packt. The first