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Learning Robotics using Python

You're reading from   Learning Robotics using Python Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623315
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots 3. Modeling the Differential Drive Robot 4. Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS 5. Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits 6. Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller 7. Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS 8. Building ChefBot Hardware and the Integration of Software 9. Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Qt on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used to develop application software with a GUI interface as well as command line tools. Qt is available in almost all operating systems, such as Windows, macOS X, Android, and so on. The main programming language used for developing Qt applications is C++ but there are bindings available for languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, and so on. Let's take a look at how to install Qt SDK on Ubuntu 16.04. We will install Qt from the Advance Packaging Tool (APT) in Ubuntu. The APT already comes with Ubuntu installation. So, for installing Qt/Qt SDK, we can simply use the following command, which will install Qt SDK and its required dependencies from the Ubuntu package repository. We can install Qt version 4 using the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk  

This command will...

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