Learning Robotics using Python. Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python - Second Edition

Robot Operating System (ROS) is one of the most popular robotics software frameworks in research and industry. It has various features for implementing different capabilities in a robot without implementing them from scratch.This book starts by showing you the fundamentals of ROS so you understand the basics of differential robots.

• Then, you'll learn about robot modeling and how to design and simulate it using ROS.
• Moving on, we'll design robot hardware and interfacing actuators.
• Then, you'll learn to configure and program depth sensors and LIDARs using ROS.
• Finally, you'll create a GUI for your robot using the Qt framework.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a clear idea of how to integrate and assemble everything into a robot and how to bundle the software package.