Learning Robotics Using Python

Bring robotics projects to life with Python! Discover how to harness everything from Blender to ROS and OpenCV with one of our most popular robotics books.

Key Features

- Design, simulate, build and program an interactive autonomous mobile robot

- Program Robot Operating System using Python

- Get a grip on the hands-on guide to robotics for learning various robotics concepts and build an advanced robot from scratch

Book Description

If you are an engineer, a researcher, or a hobbyist, and you are interested in robotics and want to build your own robot, this book is for you. Readers are assumed to be new to robotics but should have experience with Python.

What you will learn

- Understand the core concepts and terminologies of robotics

- Create 2D and 3D drawings of robots using freeware such as LibreCAD and Blender

- Simulate your robot using ROS and Gazebo

- Build robot hardware from the requirements

- Explore a diverse range of actuators and its interfacing

- Interface various robotic sensors to robots

- Set up and program OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL to process 2D/3D visual data

- Learn speech processing and synthesis using Python

- Apply artificial intelligence to robots using Python

- Build a robot control GUI using Qt and Python

- Calibration and testing of robot

Who this book is for:

If you are an engineer, a researcher, or a hobbyist, and you are interested in robotics and want to build your own robot, this book is for you. Readers are assumed to be new to robotics but should have experience with Python.

Table of Contents

- Introduction to Robotics

- Designing and modeling of an autonomous mobile robot

- Working with Robotic Simulation tools

- Designing Hardware for the robot

- Working with Robotic actuators

- Working with Robotic Sensors

- Programming 2D/3D vision sensors using Python

- Working with Speech Processing using Python

- Working with Robot Intelligence using Python

- Robot Operating system and Python interface

- Creating a GUI using python

- Finishing Robot and testing