Book Image

Mastering Beaglebone Robotics

By : Richard Grimmett
Book Image

Mastering Beaglebone Robotics

By: Richard Grimmett

Overview of this book

Related Content you might be interested in

Current Title:

Small book image
Mastering Beaglebone Robotics
Richard Grimmett
Dec, 2014 | 234 pages
No titles found
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering BeagleBone Robotics
Mastering BeagleBone Robotics
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Preparing the BeagleBone Black
Preparing the BeagleBone Black
Unpacking and powering up
Installing additional core software packages
Making your BeagleBone Black speak
Adding additional hardware and software for a fully functional core system
Summary
2
Building a Basic Tracked Vehicle
Building a Basic Tracked Vehicle
Choosing the tracked platform
Connecting a motor controller to control the speed of your tracked platform
Controlling your mobile platform programmatically using the BeagleBone Black and Python
Summary
3
Adding Sensors to Your Tracked Vehicle
Adding Sensors to Your Tracked Vehicle
Basics of sensors
Adding distance sensors
Dynamic path planning for your robot
Summary
4
Vision and Image Processing
Vision and Image Processing
Connecting a webcam to the BeagleBone Black
Using OpenCV
Finding colored objects in your vision system
Following colored objects with your vision system
Finding movement in your vision system
Following movement with your robot
Summary
5
Building a Robot that Can Walk
Building a Robot that Can Walk
Building robots that can walk
Working of servomotors
Building the quadruped platform
Using a servo controller to control the servos
Communicating with the servo controller via a PC
Connecting the servo controller to the BeagleBone Black
Creating a program on Linux to control your quadruped
Issuing voice commands to your quadruped
Summary
6
A Robot that Can Sail
A Robot that Can Sail
The BeagleBone Black and robots that can sail
Remote control of the sailboat
Summary
7
Using GPS for Navigation
Using GPS for Navigation
Beginning with a GPS tutorial
Connecting GPS to the BeagleBone Black
Parsing the GPS information
Calculating distance and bearing
Summary
8
Measuring Wind Speed – Integrating Analog Sensors
Measuring Wind Speed – Integrating Analog Sensors
Connecting an analog wind speed sensor
Getting sensor data from the wind speed sensor
Some basics of sailing
Summary
9
An Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle
An Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle
Building the hardware for the ROV
Controlling brushless DC motors using the BeagleBone Black
Program to control DC motors using the BeagleBone Black
Connecting to the BeagleBone Black via a long LAN
Accessing a camera for your project
Summary
10
A Quadcopter
A Quadcopter
Basics of quadcopter flight
Building the quadcopter
Connecting the BeagleBone Black to the quadcopter
Controlling the quadcopter using the BeagleBone Black
Summary
11
An Autonomous Quadcopter
An Autonomous Quadcopter
Controlling quadcopter flight wirelessly
Adding a game controller to your system
Adding a webcam for autonomous flight
Adding GPS for autonomous flight
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

Now you have all the tools to create a program to sail your boat autonomously. It knows where it is and where it is going, and can sense the wind to use that to sail towards a specific destination. The next few chapters will introduce an entirely new application of the BeagleBone Black—and underwater ROV to explore things under the surface of water.

Previous Section
End of Chapter 8
Next Chapter