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ROS 2 from Scratch

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835881408
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you have published the TFs for your robot and properly packaged your application.

You first discovered that the most important node to start is robot_state_publisher, with two inputs: the URDF in the robot_description parameter, and the current states for each joint on the /joint_states topic.

From this, you started all the nodes and parameters from the terminal so that you could reproduce the output we previously had with the urdf_tutorial package.

Then, you created your own package to correctly organize your application. Here is the final architecture for this package, with all the files and folders:

~/my_robot_ws/src/my_robot_description
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── package.xml
├── launch
│   ├── display.launch.py
│   └── display.launch.xml
├── meshes
├── rviz...
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