About the authors

Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain especially in Robot Operating System, Open-CV, and PCL.

He has authored three books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, and ROS Robotics Projects.

He is currently pursuing his masters in Robotics from India and is also doing research in Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.

Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received his Master’s degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. degree in Information and Automation Engineering, from the University of Naples Federico II.
Currently, he is a postdoc at the PRISMA Lab of the University of Naples Federico II. He is involved in different research projects focused on industrial and service robotics in which he has developed several ROS-based applications integrating robot perception and control.