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Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

By : Álvaro Morena Alberola, Gonzalo Molina Gallego, Unai Garay Maestre
Book Image

Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

By: Álvaro Morena Alberola, Gonzalo Molina Gallego, Unai Garay Maestre

Overview of this book

Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics begins by discussing the theory behind robots. You'll compare different methods used to work with robots and explore computer vision, its algorithms, and limits. You'll then learn how to control the robot with natural language processing commands. You'll study Word2Vec and GloVe embedding techniques, non-numeric data, recurrent neural network (RNNs), and their advanced models. You'll create a simple Word2Vec model with Keras, as well as build a convolutional neural network (CNN) and improve it with data augmentation and transfer learning. You'll study the ROS and build a conversational agent to manage your robot. You'll also integrate your agent with the ROS and convert an image to text and text to speech. You'll learn to build an object recognition system using a video. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to build a functional application that can integrate with a ROS to extract useful information about your environment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics
Preface

Installation and Configuration


The first thing to consider before installing ROS is the installed Ubuntu version. There are several ROS versions that you will have to choose from depending on your operating system version. In this case, we are explaining the installation of ROS Kinetic Kame, which is compatible with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus).

Note

If this is not your Ubuntu version, you can head to the ROS website, http://www.ros.org/, and look for the corresponding distribution.

As happens with almost every other tool, it is recommended to always install the latest version, because it may have solved errors or new functionalities; but, as mentioned before, don't worry if you're working with an older version.

Note

To get detailed steps on how to install ROS, refer to the preface on page vi.