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Learn Robotics Programming

By : Danny Staple
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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)

Chapter 14, Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft

  • Why would the user define multiple variations for each vocabulary part?
    • When you talk, you naturally use synonyms: different ways to say the same thing. Without expressing those in the vocabulary file, Mycroft is not able to pick them up.
  • Similarly, why would they do this for the dialogs?
    • To make Mycroft's responses seem more natural, as it will randomly pick synonymous phrases from the dialog
  • Why did we wrap our intent with a try/catch?
    • So we can ensure that Mycroft speaks to us if it fails to contact the robot, and logs the problem somewhere
  • What is the significance of the en-us string in the vocab/dialog file structures?
    • This is a language code. Mycroft will be allowing other language codes so it can be customized to many languages.
  • How did we make the Pi start the pulseaudio system when it boots?...