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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)

Detecting faces with Haar cascades

Tracking faces (or other objects) by features is a smart behavior. Using different cascade model files, we could pick out objects other than faces. There is a common technique, known as Haar cascades, which are well documented in a paper by Paul Viola and Michael Jones. We will give an overview of this technique, then put it into use on our robot to create a fun behavior.

Finding objects in an image

We will be using an algorithm implemented in OpenCV as a single and useful function, which makes it very easy to use. It provides a simple way to detect objects. There are more advanced and complex methods, involving machine learning, but this one is used in many places, including in camera apps...