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ROS Robotics Projects,

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649326
Length 456 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ramkumar Gandhinathan Ramkumar Gandhinathan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing ROS-2 nodes

Writing nodes in ROS-2 is comparatively different from ROS-1 due to the introduction of the additional software layers we saw in the Fundamentals of ROS-2 section. However, OSRF has ensured there isn't a huge difference while writing the ROS-2 code in order to save time and effort. In this section, we'll compare ROS-1 code and ROS-2 code and find out the differences in their usage.

Note that this is just an example section and if you want to write a ROS-2-specific package for your project, I would recommend that you go through the ROS-2 tutorials page (https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Tutorials/), which contains the necessary information.

ROS-1 example code

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