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You're reading from 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.

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 (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Robotics FREE CHAPTER

2. Mechanical Design of a Service Robot

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

Introduction to OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL

Let's discuss about the software frameworks and libraries that we are using in our robots. First, we can discuss OpenCV. This is one of the libraries that we are going to use in this robot for object detection and other image processing functionalities.

What is OpenCV?

OpenCV is an open source BSD-licensed computer vision based library that includes hundreds of computer vision algorithms. The library, mainly aimed for real-time computer vision, was developed by Intel Russia research, and is now actively supported by Itseez (http://itseez.com/).

OpenCV logo

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

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

OpenCV will run on most of the OS platforms (such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS...

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Introduction to OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL

What is OpenCV?

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