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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 17. Gesture-Controlled Robotic Vehicle

In the previous few chapters, you have learned a lot about sensors—what they do and how they work. The number of sensors on this planet is simply out of bonds. It's ever increasing, and while you are reading this book, there could be some new sensor being launched by some country across the world. This might make you wonder, do you have to learn about all of these sensors coming out on the market every single day? 

Thankfully, as you have learned, these sensors are more or less similar and work on a limited set of protocols. This makes working with new sensors easy. You might think that we have covered most of our basic sensors. However, that wouldn't be true—as we are yet to learn one of the most important sensors when it comes to the balancing of robots. These are accelerometers and gyroscope. These two sensors are not only present in all of these robots that have anything to do with balancing, but they have also found their way into our mobile...