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ROS Robotics Projects
Build a variety of awesome robots that can see, sense, move,
and do a lot more using the powerful Robot Operating System
Lentin Joseph
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
ROS Robotics Projects
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First published: March 2017
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Credits
Author
Lentin Joseph
Reviewer
Ruixiang Du
Commissioning Editor
Kartikey Pandey
Acquisition Editor
Namrata Patil
Content Development Editor
Amedh Pohad
Technical Editor
Prashant Chaudhari
Copy Editor
Madhusudan Uchil
Project Coordinator
Judie Jose
Proofreader
Safis Editing
Indexer
Pratik Shirodkar
Graphics
Kirk D'Penha
Production Coordinator
Shantanu Zagade
About the Author
Lentin Joseph
is an author, entrepreneur, electronics engineer, robotics enthusiast, machine
vision expert, embedded programmer, and the founder and CEO of Qbotics Labs (
http://w
ww.qboticslabs.com
) from India.
He completed his bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering at the
Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT), Kerala. For his final year engineering
project, he made a social robot that can interact with people. The project was a huge success
and was mentioned in many forms of visual and print media. The main features of this
robot were that it could communicate with people and reply intelligently and had some
image processing capabilities such as face, motion, and color detection. The entire project
was implemented using the Python programming language. His interest in robotics, image
processing, and Python started with that project.
After his graduation, he worked for three years at a start-up company focusing on robotics
and image processing. In the meantime, he learned to work with famous robotics software
platforms such as Robot Operating System (ROS), V-REP, and Actin (a robotic simulation
tool) and image processing libraries such as OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL. He also knows
about 3D robot design and embedded programming on Arduino and Tiva Launchpad.
After three years of work experience, he started a new company called Qbotics Labs, which
mainly focuses on research into building some great products in domains such as robotics
and machine vision. He maintains a personal website (
http://www.lentinjoseph.com
) and
a technology blog called
technolabsz
(
http://www.technolabsz.com
). He publishes his
works on his tech blog. He was also a speaker at PyCon2013, India, on the topic
Learning
Robotics Using Python.
Lentin is the author of the books
Learning Robotics Using Python
(
http://learn-robotics.c
om
) and
Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming
(
http://mastering-ros.com
), both by
Packt Publishing. The first book was about building an autonomous mobile robot using
ROS and OpenCV. This book was launched at ICRA 2015 and was featured on the ROS
blog, Robohub, OpenCV, the Python website, and various other such forums. The second
book is on mastering Robot Operating System, which was also launched at ICRA 2016, and
is one of the bestselling books on ROS.
Lentin and his team were also winners of the HRATC 2016 challenge conducted as a part of
ICRA 2016. He was also a finalist in the ICRA 2015 challenge, HRATC (
http://www.icra
2016.org/conference/challenges/
).

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