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Python Robotics Projects

By : Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Python Robotics Projects

By: Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

Robotics is a fast-growing industry. Multiple surveys state that investment in the field has increased tenfold in the last 6 years, and is set to become a $100-billion sector by 2020. Robots are prevalent throughout all industries, and they are all set to be a part of our domestic lives. This book starts with the installation and basic steps in configuring a robotic controller. You'll then move on to setting up your environment to use Python with the robotic controller. You'll dive deep into building simple robotic projects, such as a pet-feeding robot, and more complicated projects, such as machine learning enabled home automation system (Jarvis), vision processing based robots and a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build smart robots using Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Making it fully autonomous


Now, you must have understood the basics of autonomous driving using a simple proximity sensor. Now is the time when we make it fully autonomous. To make it fully autonomous, we must understand and map our surroundings rather than to just turn the vehicle till the time it encounters an obstacle. We basically need to divide this whole activity in the following two basic parts:

  • Scanning the environment
  • Deciding what to do with the perceived data

Now, let's first write the code and then see what we need to do: 

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)

import Adafruit_ADS1x15
adc0 = Adafruit_ADS1x15.ADS1115()

GAIN = 1
adc0.start_adc(0, gain=GAIN)

Motor1a = 20
Motor1b = 21
Motor2a = 23
Motor2b = 24

GPIO.setup(Motor1a,GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(Motor1b,GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(Motor2a,GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(Motor2b,GPIO.OUT)

def forward():
        GPIO.output(Motor1a,0)
        GPIO.output(Motor1b,1)
        GPIO.output(Motor2a,0)
        GPIO.output(Motor2b...