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Practical Arduino Robotics

By : Lukas Kaul
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Practical Arduino Robotics

By: Lukas Kaul

Overview of this book

Every robot needs a “brain,” and the Arduino platform provides an incredibly accessible way to bring your Arduino robot to life. Anyone can easily learn to build and program their own robots with Arduino for hobby and commercial uses, making Arduino-based robots the popular choice for school projects, college courses, and the rapid prototyping of industrial applications! Practical Arduino Robotics is a comprehensive guide that equips you with the necessary skills and techniques that can be applied to various projects and applications, from automating repetitive tasks in a laboratory to building engaging mobile robots. Building on basic knowledge of programming and electronics, this book teaches you how to choose the right components, such as Arduino boards, sensors, and motors, and write effective code for your robotics project, including the use of advanced third-party Arduino libraries and interfaces, such as Analog, SPI, I2C, PWM, and UART. You'll also learn different ways to command your robots wirelessly, such as over Wi-Fi. Finally, with basic to advanced project examples, this book illustrates how to build exciting autonomous robots like a self-balancing telepresence robot. By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and create your own custom robots for a wide variety of applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Selecting the Right Components for Your Robots
6
Part 2: Writing Effective and Reliable Robot Programs for Arduino
10
Part 3: Building the Hardware, Electronics, and UI of Your Robot
15
Part 4: Advanced Example Projects to Put Your Robotic Skills into Action

Line following – the “Hello, World!” of robotics

Building a mobile robot that can follow a dark line on a bright background is a great project to put much of our learning to use, without being overly complicated. By the end of this chapter, you will have a robot that can autonomously follow a line, completely on its own. You will see feedback control, DC motor control, and Bluetooth communication in action, all in one project. Even though this robot is not complicated, and we will only demonstrate a very basic line-following algorithm, it gives you a great platform to experiment with many more ideas. You can improve the line-following algorithm to make it go as fast as possible or you can add additional sensors to give your robot more capabilities. You can add a camera gimbal so that your robot can use the camera for more than just line following. You can develop a ground station to view live telemetry from your robot, or you can add an RC receiver and add an RC...