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Learning how to build and program your own robots with the most popular open source robotics programming frameworkAbout This BookGet to know the fundamentals of ROS and apply its concepts to real examplesLearn how to write robotics applications without getting bogged down in hardware problemsLearn to implement best practices in ROS developmentWho This Book Is ForThis 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.What You Will LearnControl a robot without requiring a PhD in roboticsSimulate and control a robot armControl a flying robotSend your robot on an independent missionLearning how to control your own robots with external devicesProgram applications running on your robotExtend ROS itselfExtend ROS with the MATLAB Robotics System ToolboxIn DetailROS 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.