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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

Chapter 15. Gesture Recognition

Since the beginning of time, humans have communicated with each other using gestures, even before there wasn't any formal language. Hand gestures were the primary way of communication, and it is also evident in the ancient sculptures found all across the world that the signs have been a successful way of transferring a huge amount of data in a very efficient way, sometimes, even more efficient than language itself. 

Gestures are natural, and they can occur as a reflex to a certain situation. It also happens subconsciously even without our knowing. So, it becomes an ideal way of communication with various devices. However, the question remains, how? 

We have used vision processing in our last few chapters, and we can be sure that if we are talking about gestures, then we would surely have to do a lot of programming to identify the gestures in the videos; furthermore, it would require a huge amount of processing power to make it happen as well. Hence, it is out...