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Robot Operating System Cookbook

You're reading from   Robot Operating System Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you master advanced ROS concepts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987443
Length 484 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kumar Bipin Kumar Bipin
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with ROS FREE CHAPTER 2. ROS Architecture and Concepts I 3. ROS Architecture and Concepts – II 4. ROS Visualization and Debugging Tools 5. Accessing Sensors and Actuators through ROS 6. ROS Modeling and Simulation 7. Mobile Robot in ROS 8. The Robotic Arm in ROS 9. Micro Aerial Vehicles in ROS 10. ROS-Industrial (ROS-I) 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Future of ROS-I – hardware support, capabilities, and applications

In this section, we will talk about what can we do with ROS-I today. We will focus our discussion section on ROS deployment or ROS being deployed in an industrial setting.

We will talk about the lowest components of the POS-I software stack, the hardware devices, ROS capabilities in an industrial setup, and amazing applications.

Currently, ROS-I has a device driver for five different robot manufactures: ABB, Fanuc, Universal Robots, Motoman, and Adept, which are shown in the following photograph:

ROS Industrial robot manufactures

There are a couple of models from these robot manufactures that are supported in ROS-I packages. The new robot models can be easily added by these manufacturers, which do not require any software changes, expect configuration. Sometimes, robot mesh and kinematics need to be added...

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