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Python Robotics Projects

You're reading from Python Robotics Projects Build smart and collaborative robots using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788832922

Length 340 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Prof. Diwakar Vaish

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Robotics 101 FREE CHAPTER

2. Using GPIOs as Input

3. Making a Gardener Robot

4. Basics of Motors

5. Making a Pet Feeding Robot

6. Bluetooth-Controlled Robotic Car

7. Sensor Interface for Obstacle Avoidance

8. Making Your Own Area Scanner

9. Vision Processing

10. Making a Guard Robot

11. Basic Switching

12. Recognizing Humans with Jarvis

13. Making Jarvis IoT Enabled

14. Giving Voice to Jarvis

15. Gesture Recognition

16. Machine Learning

17. Gesture-Controlled Robotic Vehicle

18. Making a Robotic Arm

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Index

Chapter 10. Making a Guard Robot

I am sure you must have seen the movie I, Robot or Chappie. After watching the movie, a lot of people would be intrigued by the idea of making a robot that would work to protect and guard you. However, the security systems that are the state of the art can hardly be classified as a robot. In this chapter, we will take a step ahead in the lane of vision processing and make a guard robot. Its purpose would be to guard your gate and if an unknown person comes over to the gate it would start to trigger an alarm. However, the interesting thing is that the robot would not trigger any alarm if a known person comes home. What's more is that it would clear the way and get out of the door area to let you in. Once you are inside, it will automatically be back in its position to guard and get back to work yet again.

How cool would that be? So let's get going and make this robot a reality.

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Authors (1)

Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Prof. Diwakar Vaish is a robotics scientist and the inventor of Manav (India's first indigenous humanoid robot), the world's first mind-controlled wheelchair, brain cloning, and the world's cheapest ventilator. He has also been a guest lecturer at over 13 IITs and various other institutions. He is the founder of A-SET Robotics, a leading robotics research company based in New Delhi.

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