In Chapter 5, Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison, we dealt with robotics and the autonomous side of it. Here, we are going to deep dive into the field of manual robotics. A manual robot may not typically be called a robot, so more specifically, we will deal with the manual control of robots that have some autonomous characteristics. We are primarily dealing with the development of UGVs and its control using WPF applications. WPF applications have already been discussed in Chapter 3, Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation), where we communicated with Edison using the MQTT protocol. Here, we are going to do the same using serial port communication. We will also learn how to make our bot fully wireless. The topics we will be covering are as follows:
- Manual robotic system—architecture and overview
- 2WD and 4WD mechanisms
- Serial port communication with Intel Edison
- Making the...