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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)

Conclusions about our journey

I hope you have discovered the enjoyment, entertainment, education, and even some of the frustration of making an AI-based robot. I want to remind you that the primary goal of this book was always to teach you about artificial intelligence and robotics techniques. Making the Tinman robot perform was always just an example that we used to keep the story moving, and not an end in itself. I’m sure that you have not seen the last of Albert the Tinman robot or his sisters or cousins, and I will try to continue to develop code and to blog about the robot after this book is published. Please keep checking the GitHub site for the book at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Artificial-Intelligence-for-Robotics

I certainly learned a lot along the way, as I hope you have done. I think that we are about to see a big increase in the use in AI in robotics...