[ros-users] New ROS book available

[Patrick Goebel]

<http://www.lulu.com/shop/r-patrick-goebel/ros-by-example-volume-2-hydro/ebook/product-21735506.html>

Hello ROS users,

I am pleased to announce that /Volume 2/ of /ROS By Example/ is now 
available 
<http://www.lulu.com/shop/r-patrick-goebel/ros-by-example-volume-2-hydro/ebook/product-21735506.html> 
on Lulu.com.

The main chapter headings are as follows:

1. Scope of this Volume
2. Installing the ros-by-example Code
3. Task Execution using ROS
4. Creating a URDF Model for your Robot
5. Controlling Dynamixel Servos: Take 2
6. Robot Diagnostics
7. Dynamic Reconfigure
8. Multiplexing Topics with mux and yocs
9. Head Tracking in 3D
10. Detecting and Tracking AR Tags
11. Arm Navigation using MoveIt!
12. Gazebo: Simulating Worlds and Robots
13. Rosbridge: Building a Web GUI for your Robot
Appendix: Plug and Play USB Devices for ROS

A full table of contents can be found here 
<http://www.pirobot.org/images/RBX2-TOC-Details.pdf>.

Note that this first release is written for *ROS Hydro* and programming 
examples are written in Python.

The print version should be available by the end of August 2014.

--patrick

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