Preface

Learning Robotics using Python contains nine chapters that explain how to build an autonomous mobile robot from scratch and program it using Python. The robot mentioning in this book is a service robot that can be used to serve food in home, hotels, and restaurant. From the beginning to end, the book discusses step-by-step procedures of building of this robot. The book starts with the basics concepts of robotics and then moves to the 3D modeling and simulation of the robot. After successful simulation of the robot, it discusses the hardware components required to build the robot prototype.

The software part of this robot is mainly implemented using Python programming language and software frameworks, such as Robot Operating System (ROS) and OpenCV. You can see the application of python from the designing of a robot to creating robot user interface. The Gazebo simulator is used to simulate the robot and machine vision libraries, such as OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL, is for processing the 2D and 3D image data. Each chapter is presented with adequate theory for understanding the application part. The book is reviewed by the experts in this field and it is the result of their handwork and passion in robotics.