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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)

Finding more information on computer vision

You've now started to see computer vision in Chapter 13, Robot Vision - Using a Pi Camera and OpenCV. We used OpenCV to track colored objects and faces, but barely scratched the surface of computer vision.

Books

To continue learning OpenCV, I recommend the book OpenCV with Python By Example by Prateek Joshi, Packt Publishing. This uses computer vision to build augmented reality tools, and to identify and track objects, and takes you through different image transformations and checks, showing screenshots for each of them. It is also quite fun with lots of hands-on code.

Computer vision can be extended to 3D computer vision with the Kinect, which are tricky to find as they are...