Learning Robotics Using Python: Design, Simulate, Program, and Prototype an Autonomous Mobile Robot Using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python

Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Dedication; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Robot Operating System; Technical requirements; Introduction to ROS; ROS concepts; The ROS filesystem; The ROS Computation Graph; The ROS community level; Installing ROS on Ubuntu; Introducing catkin; Creating a ROS package; Hello\_world\_publisher.py; Hello\_world\_subscriber.py; Introducing Gazebo; Installing Gazebo; Testing Gazebo with the ROS interface; Summary; Questions; Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots.;Learning about robotics will become an essential skill as it will be a ubiquitous part of life. Even though robotics is a complex subject, several other tools along with Python can help you design a project to create an easy-to-use interface. The main aim of the book is to teach you how to build an autonomous mobile robot from scratch.