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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics - Second Edition

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Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805129592

Pages 344 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Author (1):

Francis X. Govers III

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Building Blocks for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

2. Chapter 1: The Foundation of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Robot

4. Chapter 3: Conceptualizing the Practical Robot Design Process

5. Part 2: Adding Perception, Learning, and Interaction to Robotics

6. Chapter 4: Recognizing Objects Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning

7. Chapter 5: Picking Up and Putting Away Toys using Reinforcement Learning and Genetic Algorithms

8. Chapter 6: Teaching a Robot to Listen

9. Part 3: Advanced Concepts – Navigation, Manipulation, Emotions, and More

10. Chapter 7: Teaching the Robot to Navigate and Avoid Stairs

11. Chapter 8: Putting Things Away

12. Chapter 9: Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

13. Chapter 10: Conclusions and Reflections

14. Answers

15. Index

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16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix

Software requirements for the robot

In this section, we will discuss the software requirements for the robot and how to install them on the robot’s CPU.

Installing ROS 2

The version of ROS 2 I installed on Albert currently is Foxy. Please feel free to use the latest version of ROS 2. Jetson tends to run behind Ubuntu upgrades and is several releases behind. We use the Jetson Nano because it has the required power and the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to run neural network software. My version of the Nano is running Ubuntu 20.04, but you should also be able to get it working with Ubuntu version 18.04.

I used the standard ROS 2 installation script that can be found at https://github.com/jetsonhacks/installROS2. This is a script that contains all of the steps found on the regular ROS 2 installation page at https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Installation/Alternatives/Ubuntu-Development-Setup.html.

Note that we are doing an Install from Source setup since many of the programs...

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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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