Setting Up Your Robot
This chapter begins with some background on my thoughts on what a robot is, and what robots are made of – a fairly standard list of parts and components. This chapter aims to allow you to duplicate the exercises and use the source code that is found throughout the book. I will describe how I set up my environments for development, what tools I used to create my code, and how to install the Robotic Operating System version 2 (ROS 2). The assembly of Albert, the robot I use for all the examples, is covered in the GitHub repository for this book. There are many other types and configurations of robots that can work with the code in this book with some changes. I’ll try to provide all the shortcuts I can, including a full image of my robot’s SD card, in the Git repo.
In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:
- Understanding the anatomy of a robot
- Introducing subsumption architecture
- A brief introduction to ROS...
