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Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836209010
Length 576 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Implementing your first BT

The first step to create and execute a BT is to create a ROS 2 package to store all the necessary files to load and run the tree. Even if in this first example we will not use any ROS 2 API, its executor and package structure simplify the developer work.

The first step is to install the library. It can be installed directly from the APT repository:

sudo apt-get install ros-jazzy-behaviortree-cpp 

Now, moving into the src directory of the ROS 2 workspace, let’s create the first_bts package:

ros2 pkg create first_bts --dependencies rclcpp std_msgs behaviortree_cpp

Now that the library is installed and the package storing the tree and the source code has been created, let’s see the necessary steps needed to create our first BT.

Step 1 – Defining the tree model

The first step is to define the model of the tree to execute, and we are going to directly write the .xml file representing the tree model. The goal...

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