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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

Chapter 16: Diving Deeper with the IMU

In Chapter 12, IMU Programming with Python, we read data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU). We've now learned a bit more about processing sensor data, using math and pipelines to make decisions.

In this chapter, we will learn how to get calibrated data from the IMU, combine data from the sensors, and use this to make a robot have absolute orientation-based behavior. On the way, we'll see algorithms for better precision/speed or accuracy.

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to detect a robot's absolute orientation, display it on a screen, and incorporate this with the Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) behaviors.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Programming a virtual robot
  • Detecting rotation with the gyroscope
  • Detecting pitch and roll with the accelerometer
  • Detecting a heading with the magnetometer
  • Getting a rough heading from the magnetometer...