ROS Robotics By Example, Second Edition

Learning to control wheeled, limbed, and flying robots using ROS Kinetic Kame

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Lentin Joseph, Carol Fairchild and Dr. Thomas L. Harman

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|Sep 2025

E-Book €32.99Institutions €132.95

Learning how to build and program your own robots with the most popular open source robotics programming framework

Key Features

Get to know the fundamentals of ROS and apply its concepts to real examples
Learn how to write robotics applications without getting bogged down in hardware problems
Learn to implement best practices in ROS development

Book Description

ROS is a robust robotics framework that works regardless of hardware architecture or hardware origin. It standardizes most layers of robotics functionality from device drivers to process control and message passing to software package management.

But apart from just plain functionality, ROS is a great platform to learn about robotics itself and to simulate, as well as actually build, your first robots. This does not mean that ROS is a platform for students and other beginners; on the contrary, ROS is used all over the robotics industry to implement flying, walking and diving robots, yet implementation is always straightforward, and never dependent on the hardware itself.

ROS Robotics has been the standard introduction to ROS for potential professionals and hobbyists alike since the original edition came out; the second edition adds a gradual introduction to all the goodness available with the Kinetic Kame release.

By providing you with step-by-step examples including manipulator arms and flying robots, the authors introduce you to the new features. The book is intensely practical, with space given to theory only when absolutely necessary. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience on controlling robots with the best possible framework.

What you will learn

Control a robot without requiring a PhD in robotics
Simulate and control a robot arm
Control a flying robot
Send your robot on an independent mission
Learning how to control your own robots with external devices
Program applications running on your robot
Extend ROS itself
Extend ROS with the MATLAB Robotics System Toolbox

Who this book is for

This book is for robotic enthusiasts, researchers and professional robotics engineers who would like to build robot applications using ROS. It gives the robotics beginner and the ROS newbie an immensely practical introduction to robot building and robotics application coding. Basic knowledge of GNU/Linux and the ability to write simple applications is assumed, but no robotics knowledge, practical or theoretical, is needed.

Getting Started With ROS
Creating your First Two-Wheeled ROS Robot (In Simulation)
Driving Around with Turtlebot
Navigating the World with Turtlebot
Creating your First Robot Arm (In Simulation)
Wobbling Robot Arms Using Joint Control
Making a Robot Fly
Controlling Your Robots with External Devices
Flying a Mission with Crazyfile
Extending your ROS Abilities

https://github.com/packtpublishing/ros-robotics-by-example-second-edition

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78847-472-6

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 484

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