<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Hello ROS users community,</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I am coordinating with Springer publisher to edit a handbook on Robot Operating System. </div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">There are only a few books on ROS <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/Books">http://wiki.ros.org/Books</a> which mainly represent a brief introduction to ROS and a few basic applications. This does not translate the huge amount of work being done in the community and I feel the need to have a complete reference on the topic. </div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The prospective handbook will cover ROS from foundations and basics to advanced research works from both academia and industry. Tutorials and research papers will both be sought. The book should cover several robotics areas including but not limited to robot navigation, UAVs, arm manipulation, multi-robot communication protocols, Web and mobile interfaces using ROS, integration of new robotic platform to ROS, computer vision applications, development of service robots using ROS, development of new libraries and packages for ROS, etc. Every book chapter should be accompanied with a working code to be put later in a common repository for the readers.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">To express your interest to the handbook and your intention of a chapter proposal, I would like to invite you fill in the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JD78gka1rtotjGhBre-UJcm7QogQWUeURjvx4X028vw/viewform">following form</a>. The proposed chapters are just considered as an initial expression of interest and will be included in the handbook proposal. It does not mean any kind of commitment for the author at this stage. An official call for chapters with instructions and deadline will be announced soon. </div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Thank you and look forward to receive your feedback</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Anis</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>-------------------------------------------------------------</b></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Courier"><b style="font-size: 18px;">Anis Koubaa</b></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font face="Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Associate Professor, </font>Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia</font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font face="Courier">Research Associate, CISTER Research Unit, Portugal </font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">http://w</span><span style="font-family: Courier; ">ww.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~akoubaa/</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">http://www.iroboapp.org</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font face="Courier">-------------------------------------------------------------</font></div></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></div></body></html>