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You're reading from ROS Robotics Projects, Build and control robots powered by the Robot Operating System, machine learning, and virtual reality

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649326

Length 456 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Ramkumar Gandhinathan

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with ROS FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to ROS-2 and Its Capabilities

3. Building an Industrial Mobile Manipulator

4. Handling Complex Robot Tasks Using State Machines

5. Building an Industrial Application

6. Multi-Robot Collaboration

7. ROS on Embedded Platforms and Their Control

8. Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

9. Deep Learning Using ROS and TensorFlow

10. Creating a Self-Driving Car Using ROS

11. Teleoperating Robots Using a VR Headset and Leap Motion

12. Face Detection and Tracking Using ROS, OpenCV, and Dynamixel Servos

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Configuring a Dynamixel servo using RoboPlus

The Dynamixel servo can be configured using a program called RoboPlus, provided by ROBOTIS, INC. (http://en.robotis.com/), the manufacturer of Dynamixel servos.

To configure Dynamixel, you have to switch your operating system to Windows as the RoboPlus tool works on Windows. In this project, we are going to configure the servo in Windows 7.

Here is the link to download RoboPlus: http://www.robotis.com/download/software/RoboPlusWeb%28v1.1.3.0%29.exe.

If the link is not working, you can just search in Google for RoboPlus 1.1.3. After installing the software, you will get the following window. Navigate to the Expert tab in the software to get the application for configuring Dynamixel:

Dynamixel manager in RoboPlus

Before starting the Dynamixel wizard and configuring, we have to connect the Dynamixel and properly power it up. You can have...

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Authors (1)

Ramkumar Gandhinathan

Ramkumar is a roboticist and a researcher by profession. He started building robots since his sixth grade and has been into the robotics field for over 15 years through personal and professional connect. He has built, in person, over 80+ robots of different types. With an overall professional experience of 7 years (4 years full time and 3 years part-time/internship) in the robotics industry, he has ROS experience of 5 years. As a part of his professional career, he has built over 15+ industrial robot solutions using ROS. He also fascinates building drones and is a drone pilot by practice. His research interests and passion are towards the field of SLAM, motion planning, sensor fusion, multi-robot communication, and systems integration.

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