Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

ArtificialVisionandLanguageProcessingforRoboticsbeginsbydiscussingthetheorybehindrobots.You'llcomparedifferentmethodsusedtoworkwithrobotsandexplorecomputervision,itsalgorithms,andlimits.You'llthenlearnhowtocontroltherobotwithnaturallanguageprocessingcommands.You'llstudyWord2VecandGloVeembeddingtechniques,non-numericdata,recurrentneuralnetwork(RNNs),andtheiradvancedmodels.You'llcreateasimpleWord2VecmodelwithKeras,aswellasbuildaconvolutionalneuralnetwork(CNN)andimproveitwithdataaugmentationandtransferlearning.You'llstudytheROSandbuildaconversationalagenttomanageyourrobot.You'llalsointegrateyouragentwiththeROSandconvertanimagetotextandtexttospeech.You'lllearntobuildanobjectrecognitionsystemusingavideo.Bytheendofthisbook,you'llhavetheskillsyouneedtobuildafunctionalapplicationthatcanintegratewithaROStoextractusefulinformationaboutyourenvironment.