You're reading from Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming Design, build, simulate, and prototype complex robots using the Robot Operating System 2

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836209010

Length 576 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Concepts

Robotics

Authors (2):

Lentin Joseph

Jonathan Cacace

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: ROS 2 Programming and Simulation FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to ROS 2

3. Getting Started with ROS 2 Programming

4. Implementing ROS 2 Concepts

5. Working with Robot 3D Modeling in ROS 2

6. Simulating Robots in a Realistic Environment

7. Part II: ROS 2 Applications: Navigation, Manipulation, and Control

8. Controlling Robots Using the ros2_control Package

9. Implementing ROS 2 Applications Using BehaviorTree.CPP

10. ROS 2 Navigation Stack: Nav2

11. Robot Manipulation Using MoveIt 2

12. Working with ROS 2 and Perception Stack

13. Part III: Advanced Applications and Machine Learning

14. Aerial Robotics and ROS 2

15. Designing and Programming a DIY Mobile Robot from Scratch

16. Testing, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment with ROS 2

17. Interfacing Large Language Models with ROS 2

18. ROS 2 and Deep Reinforcement Learning

19. Implementing ROS 2 Visualization and Simulation Plugins

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Technical requirements

To follow along in this chapter, you should install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with ROS 2 Jazzy desktop. It can be in a VM, Docker, WSL 2, or a real machine. Your PC should have a decent NVIDIA RTX GPU with >8 GB of VRAM. The reference materials for this chapter can be found in the Chapter14 folder of the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-ROS-2-for-Robotics-Programming/tree/main/Chapter14.

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