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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most complex or repetitive tasks are automated. Smart robots have the potential to revolutionize how we perform all kinds of tasks with high accuracy and efficiency. With this second edition of Learn Robotics Programming, you'll see how a combination of the Raspberry Pi and Python can be a great starting point for robot programming. The book starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot and shows you how to design, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you'll add different outputs and sensors, learn robot building skills, and write code to add autonomous behavior using sensors and a camera. You'll also be able to upgrade your robot with Wi-Fi connectivity to control it using a smartphone. Finally, you'll understand how you can apply the skills that you've learned to visualize, lay out, build, and code your future robot building projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built an interesting robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence operations and be well versed in programming robots and creating complex robotics projects using what you've learned.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
7
Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
15
Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
21
Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

Chapter 15: Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft

Using our voice to ask a robot to do something and receiving a voice response has been seen as a sign of intelligence for a long time. Devices around us, such as those using Alexa and Google Assistant, have these tools. Being able to program our system to integrate with these tools gives us access to a powerful voice assistant system. Mycroft is a Python-based open source voice system. We will get this running on the Raspberry Pi by connecting it to a speaker and microphone, and then we will run instructions on our robot based on the words we speak.

In this chapter, we will have an overview of Mycroft and then learn how to add a speaker/microphone board to a Raspberry Pi. We will then install and configure a Raspberry Pi to run Mycroft.

We'll also extend our use of Flask programming, building a Flask API with more control points.

Toward the end of the chapter, we will create our own skills code to connect a voice...