[ros-users] New ROS book available: ROS By Example
Patrick Goebel
patrick at pirobot.org
Tue Sep 4 13:50:00 UTC 2012
Hello ROS Fans,
I have written a little book called /ROS By Example
<http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/ros-by-example---volume-1/13037556>/.
The book is aimed at new ROS users who want to go beyond the Beginner
Tutorials and create some working ROS applications, either in simulation
or on a real robot like the TurtleBot. The book provides step-by-step
explanations of a number of ROS programming examples using code that can
be downloaded from the accompanying ros-by-example
<http://code.google.com/p/ros-by-example/> repository. You can see a
preview of the book including the table of contents on the /ROS By
Example
<http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/ros-by-example---volume-1/13037556>/
web page.
There are some important caveats if you are considering getting the book:
* The companion code is written for ROS Electric, not Fuerte.
* I have tested the code under Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10 but not 12.04
since Debian packages are not available for ROS Electric under 12.04.
* The book assumes the reader has done at least the Beginner Tutorials
on the ROS Wiki. It also assumes at least a one-time reading of the
TF tutorials. In fact, there are a lot of links in the book that
point back to the Wiki but this is all in the spirit of not
reinventing the wheel.
* The code samples are written in Python, not C++ so if you don't like
Python, this book probably isn't for you!
* A print version of the book will be coming soon (hopefully in the
next week or two) but I think the PDF version will probably be more
useful to most folks.
--patrick
http://www.pirobot.org
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