Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

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Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

By : Richard Grimmett

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Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

By: Richard Grimmett

Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Configuring and Programming Raspberry Pi

Configuring and Programming Raspberry Pi

Configuring Raspberry Pi – the brain of your robot

Installing the operating system

Adding a remote graphical user interface

Programming on Raspberry Pi

Building the Biped

Building the Biped

Building robots that can walk

How servo motors work

Building the biped platform

Using a servo controller to control the servos

Communicating with the servo controller with a PC

Connecting the servo controller to the Raspberry Pi

Creating a program to control your biped

Motion for the Biped

Motion for the Biped

A basic stable pose

A basic walking motion

A basic turn for the robot

Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

Connecting Raspberry Pi to an infrared sensor

Connecting Raspberry Pi to a USB sonar sensor

Path Planning and Your Biped

Path Planning and Your Biped

Connecting a digital compass to the Raspberry Pi

Accessing the compass programmatically

Dynamic path planning for your robot

Adding Vision to Your Biped

Adding Vision to Your Biped

Installing a camera on your biped robot

Downloading and installing OpenCV – a fully featured vision library

Edge Detection and OpenCv

Color and motion finding

Accessing Your Biped Remotely

Accessing Your Biped Remotely

Adding a wireless dongle and creating an access point

Adding a joystick remote control

Adding the capability to see remotely

Index

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About the Author

Richard Grimmett has more fun working on robotic projects than should be allowed. He also enjoys teaching computer science and electrical engineering at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in leadership studies. He has written books on how to use Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone Black for robotics projects.