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Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

Name: Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming
Brand: uCertify
Price: 97.99 USD

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13+ Interactive Lessons | 40+ Exercises

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13+ Interactive Lessons | 40+ Exercises | 123+ Quizzes | 100+ Flashcards | 100+ Glossary of terms

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1+ LiveLab | 00+ Minutes

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Preface

Who this course is for
What this course covers

Assembling the Robot

Understanding the GoPiGo3 robot
Getting familiar with the embedded hardware
Deep diving into the electromechanics
Putting it all together
Quick hardware test
Summary

Unit Testing of GoPiGo3

Technical requirements
Getting started with Python and JupyterLab
Unit testing of sensors and drives
Summary

Getting Started with ROS

Technical requirements
ROS basic concepts
Configuring your ROS development environment
Communication between ROS nodes – messages and topics
Using publicly available packages for ROS
Summary

Creating the Virtual Two-Wheeled ROS Robot

Technical requirements
Getting started with RViz for robot visualization
Building a differential drive robot with URDF
Inspecting the GoPiGo3 model in ROS with RViz
Robot frames of reference in the URDF model
Using RViz to check the model while building
Summary

Simulating Robot Behavior with Gazebo

Technical requirements
Getting started with the Gazebo simulator
Making modifications to the robot URDF
Verifying a Gazebo model and viewing the URDF
Moving your model around
Summary

Programming in ROS - Commands and Tools

Technical requirements
Setting up a physical robot
A quick introduction to ROS programming
Case study 1 – writing a ROS distance-sensor package
Working with ROS commands
Creating and running publisher and subscriber nodes
Automating the execution of nodes using roslaunch
Case study 2 – ROS GUI development tools – the Pi Camera
Customizing robot features using ROS parameters
Summary

Robot Control and Simulation

Technical requirements
Setting up the GoPiGo3 development environment
Case study 3 – remote control using the keyboard
Remote control using ROS topics
Remotely controlling both physical and virtual robots
Summary

Virtual SLAM and Navigation Using Gazebo

Technical requirements
Dynamic simulation using Gazebo
Components in navigation
Robot perception and SLAM
Practising SLAM and navigation with the GoPiGo3
Summary

SLAM for Robot Navigation

Technical requirements
Preparing an LDS for your robot
Creating a navigation application in ROS
Practicing navigation with GoPiGo3
Summary

Applying Machine Learning in Robotics

Technical requirements
Setting up the system for TensorFlow
ML comes to robotics
From ML to deep learning
A methodology to programmatically apply ML in robotics
Deep learning applied to robotics – computer vision
Summary

Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym

Technical requirements
An introduction to OpenAI Gym
Running an environment
Configuring the environment file
Running the simulation and plotting the results
Summary

Achieve a Goal through Reinforcement Learning

Technical requirements
Preparing the environment with TensorFlow, Keras, and Anaconda
Understanding the ROS Machine Learning packages
Setting the training task parameters
Training GoPiGo3 to reach a target location while avoiding obstacles
Summary