ROS Robotics Projects: Make your robots see, sense, and interact with cool and engaging projects with Robotic Operating System - Softcover

Joseph, Lentin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783554711 ISBN 13: 9781783554713

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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

Key Features

• Create and program cool robotic projects using powerful ROS libraries
• Work through concrete examples that will help you build your own robotic systems of varying complexity levels
• This book provides relevant and fun-filled examples so you can make your own robots that can run and work

Book Description

Robot Operating System is one of the most widely used software frameworks for robotic research and for companies to model, simulate, and prototype robots. Applying your knowledge of ROS to actual robotics is much more difficult than people realize, but this title will give you what you need to create your own robotics in no time!

This book is packed with over 14 ROS robotics projects that can be prototyped without requiring a lot of hardware. The book starts with an introduction of ROS and its installation procedure. After discussing the basics, you'll be taken through great projects, such as building a self-driving car, an autonomous mobile robot, and image recognition using deep learning and ROS. You can find ROS robotics applications for beginner, intermediate, and expert levels inside!

This book will be the perfect companion for a robotics enthusiast who really wants to do something big in the field.

What you will learn

• Create your own self-driving car using ROS
• Build an intelligent robotic application using deep learning and ROS
• Master 3D object recognition
• Control a robot using virtual reality and ROS
• Build your own AI chatter-bot using ROS
• Get to know all about the autonomous navigation of robots using ROS
• Understand face detection and tracking using ROS
• Get to grips with teleoperating robots using hand gestures
• Build ROS-based applications using Matlab and Android
• Build interactive applications using TurtleBot

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

About this title

About the Author

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 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 could communicate with people and reply intelligently and had 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, he worked for three years at a start-up company focusing on robotics and image processing. In the meantime, he learned to work with famous robotics software platforms such as Robot Operating System (ROS), V-REP, and Actin (a robotic simulation tool) and image processing libraries such as OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL. He also knows about 3D robot design 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 into building some great products in domains such as robotics and machine vision. He maintains a personal website and a technology blog called technolabsz. 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 (learn-robotics.com) and Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming (mastering-ros.com), both by Packt Publishing. The first book was about

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783554711
• ISBN 13: 9781783554713
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 452