Book Description
Artificial Intelligence for Robotics starts with an introduction to Robot Operating Systems (ROS), Python, robotic fundamentals, and the software and tools that are required to start out with robotics. You will learn robotics concepts that will be useful for making decisions, along with basic navigation skills.
As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn about object recognition and genetic algorithms, which will teach your robot to identify and pick up an irregular object. With plenty of use cases throughout, you will explore natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to further enhance your robot. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about path planning and goal-oriented programming, which will help your robot prioritize tasks.
By the end of this book, you will have learned to give your robot an artificial personality using simulated intelligence.
What You Will Learn
- Get started with robotics and artificial intelligence
- Apply simulation techniques to give your robot an artificial personality
- Understand object recognition using neural networks and supervised learning techniques
- Pick up objects using genetic algorithms for manipulation
- Teach your robot to listen using NLP via an expert system
- Use machine learning and computer vision to teach your robot how to avoid obstacles
- Understand path planning, decision trees, and search algorithms in order to enhance your robot
Table of Contents
1: Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI
- Technical requirements
- The basic principle of robotics and AI
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
2: Setting Up Your Robot
- Technical requirements
- What is a robot?
- Subsumption architecture
- Software setup
- Hardware
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
3: A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process
- A systems engineering-based approach to robotics
- Use cases
- Storyboards
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
4: Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning
- Technical requirements
- The image recognition process
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
5: Picking up the Toys
- Technical requirements
- Task analysis
- Teaching the robot arm
- Other robot arm machine-learning approaches
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
6: Teaching a Robot to Listen
- Technical requirements
- Robot speech recognition
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
7: Avoiding the Stairs
- Technical requirements
- Task analysis
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
8: Putting Things Away
- Technical requirements
- Task analysis
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
9: Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality
- Technical requirements
- What is an artificial personality?
- Questions
- Further reading
10: Conclusions and Reflections
- Conclusions about our journey
- Issues in AI – real and not real
- Understanding risk in AI
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
