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Python Robotics Projects

By : Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Python Robotics Projects

By: Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

Robotics is a fast-growing industry. Multiple surveys state that investment in the field has increased tenfold in the last 6 years, and is set to become a $100-billion sector by 2020. Robots are prevalent throughout all industries, and they are all set to be a part of our domestic lives. This book starts with the installation and basic steps in configuring a robotic controller. You'll then move on to setting up your environment to use Python with the robotic controller. You'll dive deep into building simple robotic projects, such as a pet-feeding robot, and more complicated projects, such as machine learning enabled home automation system (Jarvis), vision processing based robots and a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build smart robots using Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Making an interactive door – answering robot


In the previous chapter we have used a PIR sensor to sense any human activity, however the problem with the sensor is, that no matter who comes or leaves it would deliver the same message. That basically means that even when you come home after a long day, it would end up asking the same question. Pretty dumb huh? 

So in this chapter we would use the previous repository and integrate the vision and the voice together to make an amazing duo. In this, the camera would identify who is on the gate and would recognize if it is a human and a stranger, if so then, it would deliver the message you intend to give. On the other hand if its you then it would simply let you pass with a simple greeting. However if the face is detected but not recognized then it would give a set of instructions to the person standing in-front of the camera. 

To implement it all you need to do is to set up a camera on the gate of your door along with the PIR. The PIR is basically...