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Python Robotics Projects

You're reading from  Python Robotics Projects

Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832922
Pages 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Prof. Diwakar Vaish Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Robotics 101 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 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Making an interactive door – answering robot


In the previous chapter we have used a PIR sensor to sense any human activity, however the problem with the sensor is, that no matter who comes or leaves it would deliver the same message. That basically means that even when you come home after a long day, it would end up asking the same question. Pretty dumb huh? 

So in this chapter we would use the previous repository and integrate the vision and the voice together to make an amazing duo. In this, the camera would identify who is on the gate and would recognize if it is a human and a stranger, if so then, it would deliver the message you intend to give. On the other hand if its you then it would simply let you pass with a simple greeting. However if the face is detected but not recognized then it would give a set of instructions to the person standing in-front of the camera. 

To implement it all you need to do is to set up a camera on the gate of your door along with the PIR. The PIR is basically...

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