Python Robotics ("PyRo")

1. Pyro Homepage
2. Pyro modules, learning materials for Python Robotics
3. Bryn Mawr College: Current course using PyRo CS380: Special Topics: Developmental Robotics,
   Spring 2003, taught by Douglas Blank
   see Lab assignments for using PyRo:
   • Pyro Introduction
   • PyroDirectControl
   • PyroNeuralNetworks
   • PyroSelfOrganizingMap
4. "Python Robotics: An Environment for Exploring Robotics Beyond Lego", PS version, PDF version
   by Blank, D., Meeden, L., and Kumar, D. (2002)
   ACM Special Interest Group: Computer Science Education Conference, Reno, NV (SIGCSE 2003).
   (These links are at the bottom of the home page)
5. Project Proposal (untitled) for Teaching Python Robotics, includes a time scale for this project
   PDF version
6. Sample Student Project in Robotics using PyRo, from CS376 -- Androids: Design and Practice
   Daniel Sproul's Final Project:
   Object Tracking with a Robotic Camera
   Contents:
   • Project Objectives
   • Object Recognition
   • Vison/Camera Interaction
   • Pyro Camera Interface
   • Putting it all Together
   • Future Tasks
   • Appendix: Source Code
   Project Objectives:
   • Extend Pyro vision library to be able to recognize objects
   • Create Pyro interface to pan, tilt, and zoom the camera on the Pioneer
   • Extend Pyro camera library to interface object recognition with camera movement
   • Interface camera tracking with robot movement to enable the Pioneer to physically follow an object
   • Mount submachineguns on Pioneer body; interface Pioneer object following with histogram-based person recognition to implement a 'seek and destroy' behaviour-based brain