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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

Installing the wiringPi library in the Raspberry Pi

wiringPi is a pin-based GPIO access library that is written in C. Using this library, you can control the Raspberry Pi using C/C++ programming. The wiringPi library is easy to set up. Once installed, the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins will have wiringPi pin numbering. Let's take a look at how to download and install wiringPi:

  1. First, open the Terminal window by clicking on its icon from the taskbar:
  1. Before installing the wiringPi library, we first need to verify that our Raspberry Pi is up to date by checking for updates. If your Raspberry Pi is not updated, you may face errors while installing the wiringPi library. To update your Raspberry Pi, type the following command:
$ sudo apt-get update

The output of the preceding command can be seen as follows:

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