Are there any books on ROS?

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asked 2011-04-21 10:22:25 -0600

amirrustam
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Hello all,

I just wanted to know if there are any books on ROS? I found this:

http://www.amazon.com/OPERATING-SYSTE...

but it has no cover or description. Does anyone know anything about this book, or any other books?

Thank you, I appreciate the help.

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answered 2014-11-05 15:56:50 -0600

2ROS0

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updated 2016-07-27 19:04:26 -0600

You have more options now (ordered by my preference):

Programming Robots with ROS - Published in 2015. Authors from OSRF and Willow Garage.
Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming - Again published in 2015 and has good and updated instruction.
ROS by Example - There are two new versions of this book for Hydro released in January and October 2014. The book is practical and great for beginners as well as those who have some experience!
A Gentle Introduction to ROS - This book covers most of the basics and does it really well. Short and sweet. The online version is free and the print is available on Amazon fairly cheap too. A good reference for beginners.
Learning ROS for Robotics Programming - This book covers the basics too and is more detailed than "A Gentle Introduction to ROS" mentioned above. But this book is based on fuerte and the old rosbuild system.

I would go for #1 or #2 if I were buying a book right now.

Also, there's now a ROS wiki page for books so expect that to be updated - http://wiki.ros.org/Books

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answered 2011-04-27 12:50:54 -0600

mmwise

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We have discussed making a book on ROS which would be auto generated from the wiki. However it only was partially finished.

You can check out the code for creating such a manual at: https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros_experimental/trunk/rosmanual

Then run to create the pdf:

./rosmanual.py ros.toc.txt

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answered 2012-08-27 10:18:41 -0600

Alex Bravo

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updated 2012-08-27 10:35:09 -0600

Patrick Goebel just released the first ROS book "ROS By Example - Volume 1". You can buy it here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/r-patrick-goebel/ros-by-example-volume-1/ebook/product-20349511.html

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answered 2011-04-24 19:21:30 -0600

Martin Günther

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AFAIK, there are no ROS books yet. I was wondering about your link, and googled for "betascript publishing". From what I gather, they are a rather dubious publishing company - they seem to rip parts of wikipedia and other copyleft sources, and print them in book form. Which is perfectly legal, but I guess what you get is a print version of the ROS wiki or something like that. If I were you, I'd save the $54.44! :-)

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answered 2014-03-31 22:22:00 -0600

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This book is very helpful for beginners www.cse.sc.edu/~jokane/agitr/

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answered 2012-04-04 00:25:19 -0600

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Hello everybody! I am a new ROS user and I'm looking for a book too. Could you suggest me something to read over the wiki?

Thank you!

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You can start from the tutorials, they pretty much covers everything you need. You can also visit Courses section (ROS wiki) which includes many videos and documents from various events and courses.

Kadir Firat Uyanik ( 2012-04-04 13:32:53 -0600 )edit

ok, thank you!

forsand ( 2012-04-05 00:52:32 -0600 )edit

The best way I have found to get started with ROS was by the examples, specially those related to turtlebot_simulator: http://www.ros.org/wiki/turtlebot_simulator

Ibraim ( 2012-08-30 04:07:26 -0600 )edit

I have found a book that is for very beginners. It helped me clarify some ambiguities, and you can download it for free from this link : http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jokane/agitr/ Hope it helps

miloup ( 2014-03-30 23:35:17 -0600 )edit

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answered 2016-07-27 13:59:51 -0600