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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623315
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System 2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots FREE CHAPTER 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 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with ChefBot's control GUI

After completing the Hello World application in PyQt, we will now discuss a GUI for controlling ChefBot. The main use of building a GUI is to create an easier way to control the robot. For example, if the robot is deployed in a hotel to serve food, the person who controls this robot need not have knowledge about the complex commands to start and stop this robot; so, building a GUI for ChefBot can reduce the complexity and make it easier for the user. We are planning to build a GUI using PyQt, ROS, and the Python interface. The ChefBot ROS package is available on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/qboticslabs/learning_robotics_2nd_ed

If you haven't cloned the code yet, you can do so now using following command:

    $ git clone https://github.com/qboticslabs/learning_robotics_2nd_ed.git

The GUI code named robot_gui.py is...

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