This book explores the concepts and tools necessary to bring a robot to life through programming. Francisco Martín Rico looks at the skills necessary to undertake projects with ROS2, the new version of ROS and describes the concepts, tools, and methodologies of ROS2 from the beginning.

Author: Francisco Martín Rico
Publisher: ‎ Chapman and Hall/CRC
Date: September 2022
Pages: 264
ISBN: 978-1032264653
Print: 1032264659
Kindle: B0BDPNN7C7
Audience: General
Level: Intermediate
Category: Hardware platforms

• Uses the two programming languages officially supported in ROS2 (C++, mainly, and Python)
• Approaches ROS2 from three different but complementary dimensions: the Community, Computation Graph, and the Workspace
• Includes a complete simulated robot, development and testing strategies, Behavior Trees, and Nav2 description, setup, and use
• A GitHub repository with code to assist readers

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