Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 3)

DescriptionBuilding on the successful first and second volumes, this book is the third volume of the Springer book on the Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference. The Robot Operating System is evolving from year to year with a wealth of new contributed packages and enhanced capabilities. Further, the ROS is being integrated into various robots and systems and is becoming an embedded technology in emerging robotics platforms. The objective of this third volume is to provide readers with additional and comprehensive coverage of the ROS and an overview of the latest achievements, trends and packages developed with and for it. Combining tutorials, case studies, and research papers, the book consists of sixteen chapters and is divided into five parts. Part 1 presents multi-robot systems with the ROS. In Part 2, four chapters deal with the development of unmanned aerial systems and their applications. In turn, Part 3 highlights recent work related to navigation, motion planning and control. Part 4 discusses recently contributed ROS packages for security, ROS2, GPU usage, and real-time processing. Lastly, Part 5 deals with new interfaces allowing users to interact with robots. Taken together, the three volumes of this book offer a valuable reference guide for ROS users, researchers, learners and developers alike. Its breadth of coverage makes it a unique resource.Table of Contents Multi-robot SystemsA ROS-Based Framework for Simulation and Benchmarking of Multi-robot Patrolling Algorithms – David Portugal, Luca Iocchi, Alessandro FarinelliMulti-robot Systems, Virtual Reality and ROS: Developing a New Generation of Operator Interfaces – Juan Jesús Roldán, Elena Peña-Tapia, David Garzón-Ramos, Jorge de León, Mario Garzón, Jaime del Cerro et al.Unmanned Aerial SystemsAutonomous Exploration and Inspection Path Planning for Aerial Robots Using the Robot Operating System – Christos Papachristos, Mina Kamel, Marija Popović, Shehryar Khattak, Andreas Bircher, Helen Oleynikova et al.A Generic ROS Based System for Rapid Development and Testing of Algorithms for Autonomous Ground and Aerial Vehicles – Pawel Ladosz, Matthew Coombes, Jean Smith, Michael HutchinsonROS-Based Approach for Unmanned Vehicles in Civil Applications – Abdulla Al-Kaff, Francisco Miguel Moreno, Ahmed HusseinA Quadcopter and Mobile Robot Cooperative Task Using Visual Tags Based on Augmented Reality ROS Package – Alvaro Rogério Cantieri, Ronnier F. Rohrich, André Schneider de Oliveira, Marco Aurélio Wehrmeister, João Alberto Fabro, Marlon de Oliveira Vaz et al.Navigation, Motion Planning and ControlEXOTica: An Extensible Optimization Toolset for Prototyping and Benchmarking Motion Planning and Control – Vladimir Ivan, Yiming Yang, Wolfgang Merkt, Michael P. Camilleri, Sethu VijayakumarOnline Trajectory Optimization and Navigation in Dynamic Environments in ROS – Franz Albers, Christoph Rösmann, Frank Hoffmann, Torsten BertramA Backstepping Non-smooth Controller for ROS-Based Differential-Drive Mobile Robots – Walter Fetter LagesUniversity Rover Challenge: Tutorials and Team Survey – Daniel Snider, Matthew Mirvish, Michal Barcis, Vatan Aksoy TezerContributed ROS PackagesSROS1: Using and Developing Secure ROS1 Systems – Ruffin White, Gianluca Caiazza, Henrik Christensen, Agostino CortesiGPU and ROS the Use of General Parallel Processing Architecture for Robot Perception – Nicolas Dalmedico, Marco Antônio Simões Teixeira, Higor Santos Barbosa, André Schneider de Oliveira, Lucia Valeria Ramos de Arruda, Flavio Neves JrConnecting ROS and FIWARE: Concepts and Tutorial – Raffaele Limosani, Alessandro Manzi, Laura Fiorini, Paolo Dario, Filippo CavalloEnabling Real-Time Processing for ROS2 Embedded Systems – Lucas da Silva Medeiros, Ricardo Emerson Julio, Rodrigo Maximiano Antunes de Almeida, Guilherme Sousa BastosInterfaces for Interaction with Robotsbum_ros: Distributed User Modelling for Social Robots Using ROS – Gonçalo S. Martins, Luís Santos, Jorge DiasROSRemote: Using ROS on Cloud to Access Robots Remotely – Alyson Benoni Matias Pereira, Ricardo Emerson Julio, Guilherme Sousa BastosEditor BiographyDr. Anis Koubaa, Prince Sultan University, College of Computer Science and Informat, 13381 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.