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Python Robotics Projects

By : Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Python Robotics Projects

By: Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

Robotics is a fast-growing industry. Multiple surveys state that investment in the field has increased tenfold in the last 6 years, and is set to become a $100-billion sector by 2020. Robots are prevalent throughout all industries, and they are all set to be a part of our domestic lives. This book starts with the installation and basic steps in configuring a robotic controller. You'll then move on to setting up your environment to use Python with the robotic controller. You'll dive deep into building simple robotic projects, such as a pet-feeding robot, and more complicated projects, such as machine learning enabled home automation system (Jarvis), vision processing based robots and a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build smart robots using Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Interfacing the inertial measurement unit


MPU 6050 is a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope. It works on I2C, but the interesting thing about this sensor is that it has a different address for different sensors. What did you just say? Different address for different sensors. Isn't it one single sensor?

Well, yes it is, but if you see the internal construction of the sensor, then you would find that for every different axis, the data is being stored in different registers from where we can acquire the data at our disposal. Hence, if you require just the reading of x axis of accelerometer, then you can do so efficiently rather than getting a whole long string of different values. Now connecting this sensor is super easy. All you have to do is to power it up using Raspberry Pi and simply connect the I2C pins over, as shown in the following diagram: 

Once the wiring is done, go ahead and upload the following code. Once you do so, run and see what you get:

import smbus
from time import...