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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
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Section 1: Getting Started with wiringPi on a Raspberry Pi
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Section 2: Raspberry Pi Robotics
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Section 3: Face and Object Recognition Robot
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Section 4: Smartphone-Controlled Robot

Controlling a rover using a laptop with QT5

Now that we can control the LEDs, let's look at how to control the rover using QT5. Inside the Qt Creator IDE, create a new project and name it QTRover. You can download the QTRover project folder from the GitHub repository of this chapter. We can now create this QTRover project using the clicked() function and the pressed() and released() functions. To do so, we have the following options:

  1. If we create this project using only the clicked() function, we would need to create five buttons: forward, backward, left, right, and stop. We would need to press the stop button each time to stop the robot.
  2. If we create this project using only the pressed() and released() functions, we would only need to create four buttons: forward, backward, left, and right. We wouldn't need a stop button in this case, as the rover would stop when...