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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

By : Francis X. Govers
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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

By: Francis X. Govers

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)

Questions

  1. Describe some of the differences between a storyboard for a movie or cartoon, and a storyboard for a software program.
  2. What are the five W questions? Can you think of any more questions that would be relevant to examine a use case?
  3. Complete this sentence: A use case shows what the robot does but not ___________.
  4. Take the storyboard in step 9, where the robot is driving to the toy box, and break it down into more sequenced steps in your own storyboard. Think about all that must happen between frames 9 and 10.
  5. Complete the reply form of the knock-knock joke, where the robot answers the user telling the joke. What do you think is the last step?
  6. Look at the teleoperate operations. Would you add any more, or does this look like a good list?
  7. Write a specification for a sensor that uses distance measurement to prevent the robot from driving down stairs.
  8. What is the distance...