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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

Power house


There is one unit that we have been using in all our projects, but I want to emphasize on it in this chapter. This unit is the power unit. The reason we are talking about it is because in this chapter we will be controlling multiple servos. When we are talking about multiple servos, naturally we will be talking about a lot of power consumption. In the robot arm, we have six servo motors. Now, depending upon the make and model of the motor, the power consumption will vary. But keeping yourself on a safer side and assuming every servo's power consumption to be around 1 amp would be a good idea. Most of the power supply you would be using might not be able to give you this much of burst current. So what should we do?

We can take the easy approach of taking a higher power output. But, instead, we can take the unconventional route. We can have a battery that can deliver this much of power when needed. But, the question is, will any battery solve our purpose? Obviously, the answer would...