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.

Key Features

Design, simulate, build and program an interactive autonomous mobile robot

Program Robot Operating System using Python

Get a grip on the hands-on guide to robotics for learning various robotics concepts and build an advanced robot from scratch

Book Description

Learning about robotics will become an increasingly essential skill as it becomes a ubiquitous part of life. Even though robotics is a complex subject, several other tools along with Python can help you design a project to create an easy-to-use interface.

Learning Robotics Using Python is an essential guide for creating an autonomous mobile robot using popular robotic software frameworks such as ROS using Python. It also discusses various robot software frameworks and how to go about coding the robot using Python and its framework. It concludes with creating a GUI-based application to control the robot using buttons and slides.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a clear idea of how to integrate and assemble all things into a robot and how to bundle the software package.

What you will learn

Understand the core concepts and terminologies of robotics

Create 2D and 3D drawings of robots using freeware such as LibreCAD and Blender

Simulate your robot using ROS and Gazebo

Build robot hardware from the requirements

Explore a diverse range of actuators and its interfacing

Interface various robotic sensors to robots

Set up and program OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL to process 2D/3D visual data

Learn speech processing and synthesis using Python

Apply artificial intelligence to robots using Python

Build a robot control GUI using Qt and Python

Calibration and testing of robot