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Learning Robotics using Python

You're reading from Learning Robotics using Python Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788623315

Length 280 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

OpenCV

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Lentin Joseph

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots

3. Modeling the Differential Drive Robot

4. Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS

5. Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits

6. Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller

7. Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS

8. Building ChefBot Hardware and the Integration of Software

9. Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python

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Index

Introduction to OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL

Let's look at the software frameworks and libraries that we will be using in our robots. First, let's look at OpenCV. This is one of the libraries that we are going to use in this robot for object detection and other image-processing capabilities.

What is OpenCV?

OpenCV is an open source, BSD-licensed computer vision library that includes the implementations of hundreds of computer-vision algorithms. The library, mainly intended for real-time computer vision, was developed by Intel Russia's research, and is now actively supported by Itseez (https://github.com/Itseez). In 2016, Intel acquired Itseez.

OpenCV is written mainly in C and C++, and its primary interface is in C++. It also has good interfaces in Python, Java, and MATLAB/Octave, and also has wrappers in other languages (such as C# and Ruby).

In the latest version of OpenCV, there is support for CUDA and OpenCL to enable GPU acceleration (http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html).

OpenCV will...

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Authors (1)

Lentin Joseph

Lentin Joseph

Lentin Joseph is the Co-Founder of RUNTIME Robotics. He brings over 14 years of experience in Robotics Software Development, specializing in ROS 1 and 2. He has authored and reviewed over 10 books on ROS, computer vision, and embedded systems. Lentin holds a master's in Robotics and Automation from Amrita University, Kerala, and a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from FISAT Engineering College, Kerala. His passion for teaching Robotics and ROS has also led him to share his insights as a TEDx Speaker.

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