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You're reading from Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Build intelligent robots that perform human tasks using AI techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835442

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

ROS

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Francis X. Govers III

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up Your Robot

3. A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process

4. Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning

5. Picking up the Toys

6. Teaching a Robot to Listen

7. Avoiding the Stairs

8. Putting Things Away

9. Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

10. Conclusions and Reflections

11. Assessments

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

Python 2.7 or 3.5 with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and scikit-learn installed.
Robotics Operating System (ROS) Kinetic Kame.
A computer running Linux for development or a virtual machine running Linux under Windows. Ubuntu 16.04 is used for the examples and illustrations.
Raspberry Pi 3 or a similar single board computer (BeagleBone Black, Odroid, or similar). We are not using the GPIO or special interfaces on the Pi3.
An Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller.

The repository for the source code in this chapter on GitHub is: https://github.com/FGovers/AI_and_Robotics_source_code/chapter_1

Check out the following video to see the Code in Action:
http://bit.ly/2BT0Met

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Authors (1)

Francis X. Govers III

Francis X. Govers III is an Associate Technical Fellow for Autonomy at Bell Textron, and chairman of the Textron Autonomy Council. He is the designer of over 30 unmanned vehicles and robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped lead the design of the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and telemetry systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas. He has a Master of Science degree from Brandeis University and is a veteran of the US Air Force.

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