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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most complex or repetitive tasks are automated. Smart robots have the potential to revolutionize how we perform all kinds of tasks with high accuracy and efficiency. With this second edition of Learn Robotics Programming, you'll see how a combination of the Raspberry Pi and Python can be a great starting point for robot programming. The book starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot and shows you how to design, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you'll add different outputs and sensors, learn robot building skills, and write code to add autonomous behavior using sensors and a camera. You'll also be able to upgrade your robot with Wi-Fi connectivity to control it using a smartphone. Finally, you'll understand how you can apply the skills that you've learned to visualize, lay out, build, and code your future robot building projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built an interesting robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence operations and be well versed in programming robots and creating complex robotics projects using what you've learned.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
7
Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
15
Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
21
Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

Summary

In this chapter, you saw how to use the camera to detect a line and how to plot data showing what it found. You then saw how to take this data and put it into driving behavior so that the robot follows the line. You added to your OpenCV knowledge, and I showed you a sneaky way to put graphs into frames rendered on the camera stream output. You saw how to tune the PID to make the line following more accurate and how to ensure the robot stops predictably when it has lost the line.

In the next chapter, we will see how to communicate with our robot via a voice agent, Mycroft. You will add a microphone and speakers to a Raspberry Pi, then add speech recognition software. This will let us speak commands to a Raspberry Pi to send to the robot, and Mycroft will respond to let us know what it has done.