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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about voice assistant terminology, speech to text, wake words, intents, skills, utterances, vocabulary, and dialog. You considered where you would install microphones and speakers and whether they should be on board a robot.

You then saw how to physically install a speaker/microphone combination onto a Raspberry Pi, then prepare software to get the Pi to use it. You installed Picroft – a Mycroft Raspbian environment, getting the voice agent software.

You were then able to play with Mycroft and get it to respond to different voice commands and register it with its base.

You then saw how to make a robot ready for an external agent, such as a voice agent to control it with a Flask API. You were able to create multiple skills that communicate with a robot, with a good starting point for creating more.

In the next chapter, we will bring back out the IMU we introduced in Chapter 12, IMU Programming with Python, and get it to do more...