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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

Accelerometers and gyroscope


Let's first start with accelerometers. As the name suggests, these are meant to measure acceleration in any body. Hence, whenever there is any acceleration in any body, then the accelerometers have the work to sense that acceleration and give the corresponding reading. 

A gyroscope is a device that uses Earth's gravity to help determine orientation of the robot. An accelerometer is a device designed to measure non-gravitational acceleration.Whenever there is any acceleration, the crystals in the accelerometer excite and provide a voltage corresponding to it.

The main difference between these devices is simple: the gyroscope can sense rotation, whereas the accelerometer cannot. In a way, the accelerometer can gauge the orientation of a stationary item with relation to Earth's surface. When accelerating in a particular direction, the accelerometer is unable to distinguish between that and the acceleration provided through Earth's gravitational pull. The gyroscope...