The Pyro Toolkit For AI And Robotics
Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden, Holly A. Yanco · Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr College) · 2006
This article introduces Pyro, an open-source Python robotics toolkit for exploring topics in AI and robotics. We present key abstractions that allow Pyro controllers to run unchanged on a variety of real and simulated robots. We demonstrate Pyro's use in a set of curricular modules. We then describe how Pyro can provide a smooth transition for the student from symbolic agents to real-world robots, which significantly reduces the cost of learning to use robots. Finally we show how Pyro has been successfully integrated into existing AI and robotics courses.