About the Author
Lentin Joseph is an electronics engineer, robotics enthusiast, machine vision
expert, embedded programmer, and the founder and CEO of Qbotics Labs
(http://www.qboticslabs.com) in India. He got his bachelor's degree in electronics
and communication engineering at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology
(FISAT), Kerala. In his nal year engineering project, he created a social robot, which
can interact with people. The project was a huge success and got mentioned in visual
and print media. The main feature of this robot was that it could communicate with
people and reply intelligently. It also has some image-processing capabilities, such
as face, motion, and color detection. The entire project was implemented using the
Python programming language. His interest in robotics, image processing, and
Python began this project.
After graduation, he worked at a start-up company based on robotics and image
processing for 3 years. In the meantime, he learned famous robotic software
platforms—such as Robot Operating system (ROS), V-REP, and Actin (a robotic
simulation tool)—and image processing libraries, such as OpenCV, OpenNI,
and PCL. He also knows about robot 3D designing, embedded programming on
Arduino, and Stellaris Launchpad.
After 3 years of work experience, he started a new company called Qbotics Labs,
which is mainly focused on research to build great products in domains such
as wearable technology, robotics, machine vision, green technology, and online
education. He maintains a personal website (
http://www.lentinjoseph.com) and
a technology blog called technolabsz (http://www.technolabsz.com). He publishes
his works on his tech blog. He was a speaker at PyCon2013 India, and he spoke on
the topic of learning robotics using Python.
I would like to dedicate this book to my parents because they gave
me the inspiration to write it. I would also like to convey my regards
to my friends who helped and inspired me to write this book.
I would like to thank Marek Suppa for his valuable contribution in
writing Chapter 1, Introduction to Robotics, in addition to reviewing
this book.
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