Programming Robots with ROS: A Practical Introduction to the Robot Operating System

by Morgan Quigley, Brian Gerkey, William D. Smart

Want to develop novel robot applications, but don’t know how to write a mapping or object recognition system? You’re certainly not alone, but you’re not without help. By combining real-world examples with valuable knowledge from the Robot Operating System (ROS) community, this practical book provides a set of motivating recipes for solving specific robotics use cases.

Ideal for wide range of robot enthusiasts, from students in robotics clubs to professional robotics scientists and engineers, each recipe describes a complete solution using ROS open source libraries and tools. You’ll not only learn how to complete the task described in the recipe, but also how to configure and recombine the components for other tasks. All recipes include Python code.

No robot hardware is required to get started, just experience with Python and Linux. This book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory robotics courses.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technology, Nonfiction, Engineering

300 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 2015

Reviews

[Amala Putrevu]

A good introduction that'll get you started

[Nick Black]

Covers what it claims to, and in a more organized fashion than the ROS wiki.

[Lucas]

Good introduction, most of this was familiar but I haven't tried out actions or the navigation stack. I need to go through it again and try out all the examples.