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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783287536

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Robotics

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Learning Robotics Using Python

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Introduction to Robotics

2. Mechanical Design of a Service Robot FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Robot Simulation Using ROS and Gazebo

4. Designing ChefBot Hardware

5. Working with Robotic Actuators and Wheel Encoders

6. Working with Robotic Sensors

7. Programming Vision Sensors Using Python and ROS

8. Working with Speech Recognition and Synthesis Using Python and ROS

9. Applying Artificial Intelligence to ChefBot Using Python

10. Integration of ChefBot Hardware and Interfacing it into ROS, Using Python

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

12. The Calibration and Testing of ChefBot

Index

Installing Qt on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used to develop application software with a GUI interface as well as command line tools. Qt is available on almost all operating systems, like Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and so on. The main programming language used for developing Qt applications is C++ but there are bindings available for languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, and so on. Let's take a look at how to install Qt SDK on Ubuntu 14.04.2. We will install Qt from the Advance Packaging Tool (APT) in Ubuntu. The APT already comes with the Ubuntu installation. So for installing Qt/Qt SDK, we can simply use the following command, which will install Qt SDK and its required dependencies from the Ubuntu package repository. We can install Qt version 4 using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk

This command will install the entire Qt SDK and its libraries required for our project. The packages available on Ubuntu repositories...

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Installing Qt on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

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