Building 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.
