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BeagleBone By Example

By : Pei JIA, Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar, Alexander Hiam
Book Image

BeagleBone By Example

By: Pei JIA, Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar, Alexander Hiam

Overview of this book

BeagleBone is a low cost, community-supported development platform to develop a variety of electronic projects. This book will introduce you to BeagleBone and get you building fun, cool, and innovative projects with it. Start with the specifications of BeagleBone Black and its operating systems, then get to grips with the GPIOs available in BeagleBone Black. Work through four types of exciting projects: building real-time physical computing systems, home automation, image processing for a security system, and building your own tele-controlled robot and learn the fundamentals of a variety of projects in a single book. By the end of this book, you will be able to write code for BeagleBone in order to operate hardware and impart decision-making capabilities with the help of efficient coding in Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BeagleBone By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Application areas


When we discuss the application areas of robotics, we can see that the existence of robots is widespread. The most commonly categorized robotic systems based on application areas are as follows:

  • Industrial robots

  • Household or domestic robots

  • Medical robots

  • Mobile robots

  • Social and humanoid robots

Industrial robotics

As mentioned before, even though we have been building robots for a long time, their widespread usage came about only through industrial robots in manufacturing to increase productivity. These are machines that perform specific tasks in industries at high speed.

In the preceding picture, you can see robotic arms manufacturing cars in a car manufacturing industry. The programming of these arms is done in such a way that all the robotic arms and conveyers that are moving the cars work in a synchronous way and each of these robot arms perform a specific task, such as fitting a nut or welding two metal sheets.

Domestic robots

Robots that help humans with household chores...