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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 16. Machine Learning

Robots and computers from its primitive days to even right now are being programmed to do a set of activities. These activities can be very large. Hence, to develop complex programs, there is a need for a lot of software engineers who work day and night to achieve a certain functionality. This is workable when the problem is well defined. But what about situations when the problem is also way complex?

Learning is something that has made us humans what we are. Our experiences molded us to adapt to situations in a better and a more efficient way. Every time we do something, we know more. This makes us better at doing that task over a period of time. It is said practice makes a man perfect, and it is learning through doing things again and again that makes us better.

However, let us step back and define what learning is? I would like to quote Google here according to it, It is a knowledge acquired through study, experience or being taught. So, learning is basically...