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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Free Chapter

Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI

Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI

Technical requirements

The basic principle of robotics and AI

Further reading

Setting Up Your Robot

Setting Up Your Robot

Technical requirements

What is a robot?

Subsumption architecture

Further reading

A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process

A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process

A systems engineering-based approach to robotics

Further reading

Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning

Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning

Technical requirements

The image recognition process

Further reading

Picking up the Toys

Picking up the Toys

Technical requirements

Teaching the robot arm

Other robot arm machine-learning approaches

Further reading

Teaching a Robot to Listen

Teaching a Robot to Listen

Technical requirements

Robot speech recognition

Further reading

Avoiding the Stairs

Avoiding the Stairs

Technical requirements

Further reading

Putting Things Away

Putting Things Away

Technical requirements

Further reading

Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

Technical requirements

What is an artificial personality?

Further reading

Conclusions and Reflections

Conclusions and Reflections

Conclusions about our journey

Issues in AI – real and not real

Understanding risk in AI

Further reading

Assessments

Chapter 1, Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI

Chapter 2, Setting Up Your Robot

Chapter 3, A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process

Chapter 4, Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning

Chapter 5, Picking up the Toys

Chapter 6, Teaching a Robot to Listen

Chapter 7, Avoiding the Stairs

Chapter 8, Putting Things Away

Chapter 9, Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

Chapter 10, Conclusions and Reflections

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Technical requirements

This chapter using the following tools:

Mycroft Open Source Voice Assistant (http://mycroft.ai) – I had to build it from source from the GitHub repository, so expect to do the same to keep it compatible with the ROS (Robotics Operating System) we run the robot with.
Python 3.2 (but you should be able to make 2.7 work as well).
You will need a Git account at https://github.com/.
I used the Google DIY Voice Kit (https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice), which provided a very nice set of speaker and stereo microphones for the Raspberry Pi. We will be using the hardware only.

Check out the following video to see the Code in Action:
http://bit.ly/2MXj2HS