You're reading from ROS 2 from Scratch Get started with ROS 2 and create robotics applications with Python and C++

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835881408

Length 380 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Edouard Renard

View More author details

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Getting Started with ROS 2

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to ROS 2 – What Is ROS 2? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Setting Up ROS 2

4. Chapter 3: Uncovering ROS 2 Core Concepts

5. Part 2: Developing with ROS 2 – Python and C++

6. Chapter 4: Writing and Building a ROS 2 Node

7. Chapter 5: Topics – Sending and Receiving Messages between Nodes

8. Chapter 6: Services – Client/Server Interaction between Nodes

9. Chapter 7: Actions – When Services Are Not Enough

10. Chapter 8: Parameters – Making Nodes More Dynamic

11. Chapter 9: Launch Files – Starting All Your Nodes at Once

12. Part 3: Creating and Simulating a Custom Robot with ROS 2

13. Chapter 10: Discovering TFs with RViz

14. Chapter 11: Creating a URDF for a Robot

15. Chapter 12: Publishing TFs and Packaging the URDF

16. Chapter 13: Simulating a Robot in Gazebo

17. Chapter 14: Going Further – What To Do Next

18. Index

Why subscribe?

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extra tools for ROS development

Apart from the mandatory previous steps to install and set up ROS 2, any other development tool is up to you. If you have your favorite way of working with a Terminal, your favorite text editor, or your favorite integrated development environment (IDE), this is perfectly fine.

In this section, I will show you a few tools that lots of ROS developers use (me included) and that I think can help you get a better experience when developing with ROS.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a quite popular IDE used by many developers. What makes it nice for us is its good support for ROS development.

VS Code is free to use and open source; you can even find its code on GitHub. To install VS Code, open a Terminal and run the following command:

$ sudo snap install code --classic

The installation just requires one line and uses Ubuntu’s Snap feature. After installing it, you can open VS Code by searching for it in the Ubuntu...