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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

By : Francis X. Govers III
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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

By: Francis X. Govers III

Overview of this book

Artificial Intelligence for Robotics starts with an introduction to Robot Operating Systems (ROS), Python, robotic fundamentals, and the software and tools that are required to start out with robotics. You will learn robotics concepts that will be useful for making decisions, along with basic navigation skills. As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn about object recognition and genetic algorithms, which will teach your robot to identify and pick up an irregular object. With plenty of use cases throughout, you will explore natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to further enhance your robot. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about path planning and goal-oriented programming, which will help your robot prioritize tasks. By the end of this book, you will have learned to give your robot an artificial personality using simulated intelligence.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Chapter 6, Teaching a Robot to Listen

  1. I found at least three. My favorite is that Mycroft is Sherlock Holmes’ older, and some say, smarter, brother. Sherlock Holmes is played on TV by Benedict Cumberbatch, who also played Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, the original name of the Turing test, a test of AI conversation, which is what Mycroft does.
  2. One approach has been to gather a selection of commands, label the intent of the commands, use the commands as input to a neural network, and the label as the training output.
  3. It is fairly simple to add a program to just write to the knock-knock joke program database. I’ll post a version of this on the HitHub site. Is this machine learning? I would say, definitely! The machine has a capability that it did not have before.
  4. play_wav_cmdline: paplay %1 --stream-name=mycroft-voice.

You can use this to play the audio...