Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming

Why some do not prefer ROS for robots

Here are some of the reasons why people do not prefer ROS for their robotic projects:

• Difficulty in learning: It will be difficult to learn ROS from their default wiki pages. Most users depend on books to start with ROS. Even this book covers only the basics; learning ROS is going to be bit difficult.
• Difficulties in starting with simulation: The main simulator in ROS is Gazebo. Even though Gazebo works well, to get started with Gazebo is not an easy task. The simulator has no inbuilt features to program. Complete simulation is done only through coding in ROS. When we compare Gazebo with other simulators such as V-REP and Webots, they have inbuilt functionalities to prototype and program the robot. They also ...