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Learn Robotics Programming

By : Danny Staple
Book Image

Learn Robotics Programming

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most difficult human tasks are now automated. Smart and intelligent robots, which will perform different tasks precisely and efficiently, are the requirement of the hour. A combination of Raspberry Pi and Python works perfectly when making these kinds of robots. Learn Robotics Programming starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot, along with how to plan, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you will gradually progress to adding different outputs and sensors, learning new building skills, and writing code for interesting behaviors with sensors. You’ll also be able to update your robot, and set up web, phone, and Wi-Fi connectivity in order to control it. By the end of the book, you will have built a clever robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence (AI) operations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Questions

Try these assessment questions to check your understanding:

  • Why would the user define multiple variations for each vocabulary part?
  • Similarly, why would they do this for the dialog?
  • Why did we wrap our intent with try/catch?
  • What is the significance of the en-us string in the vocabulary/dialog file structures?
  • How did we make the Pi start the pulseaudio system when it boots?

Suggested enhancement task: Add more intents to the skill, for example, wall avoiding. You could add a stop intent although the response time may make this less than ideal. Also, could the RGB LEDs on the Mycroft be used?