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Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

By : Dinesh Tavasalkar, Lentin Joseph
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Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

By: Dinesh Tavasalkar, Lentin Joseph

Overview of this book

C++ is one of the most popular legacy programming languages for robotics, and a combination of C++ and robotics hardware is used in many leading industries. This book will bridge the gap between Raspberry Pi and C/C++ programming and enable you to develop applications for Raspberry Pi. You'll even be able to implement C programs in Raspberry Pi with the WiringPi library. The book will guide you through developing a fully functional car robot and writing programs to move it in different directions. You’ll then create an obstacle-avoiding robot using an ultrasonic sensor. In addition to this, you’ll find out how to control the robot wirelessly using your PC or Mac. This book will also help you work with object detection and tracking using OpenCV, and guide you through exploring face detection techniques. Finally, you will create an Android app and control the robot wirelessly with an Android smartphone. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience in developing a robot using Raspberry Pi and C/C++ programming.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with wiringPi on a Raspberry Pi
4
Section 2: Raspberry Pi Robotics
8
Section 3: Face and Object Recognition Robot
12
Section 4: Smartphone-Controlled Robot

Summary

In this chapter, we used the Haar face classifier to detect a face from a video feed and then we drew a rectangle around it. Next, we detected the eyes and smile from a given face, and drew circles around the eyes and mouth. After this, using our knowledge of face, eye, and smile detection, we turned the LEDs of our robot on and off when the eyes and smile were detected. Finally, by creating a white dot in the center of the face rectangle, we made the robot follow our face.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to control our robot using our voice. We will also create an Android application that will recognize what we are speaking about. When the Android application detects certain keywords, the Android smartphone's Bluetooth will send bits of data to the Raspberry Pi Bluetooth. Once our robot recognizes these keywords, we will use them to move the robot in different...