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Learn Robotics Programming

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most difficult human tasks are now automated. Smart and intelligent robots, which will perform different tasks precisely and efficiently, are the requirement of the hour. A combination of Raspberry Pi and Python works perfectly when making these kinds of robots. Learn Robotics Programming starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot, along with how to plan, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you will gradually progress to adding different outputs and sensors, learning new building skills, and writing code for interesting behaviors with sensors. You’ll also be able to update your robot, and set up web, phone, and Wi-Fi connectivity in order to control it. By the end of the book, you will have built a clever robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence (AI) operations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Avoiding walls – a script to avoid obstacles

Now that we have tested both sensors, it's time to integrate our new sensors with our robot class, and then create an obstacle avoidance behavior for them. We've seen how to write line sensor code that was event-based. For this sensor, we will use a different style, that is, polling. Our behavior loop will read the sensors, and then choose behavior accordingly. For the most part, the way the code will react to things does not change, and it is a decision about where to put the loop for checking sensor state—in the sensor object, or in your own code.

Making our distance sensor object

To integrate this into our robot, we will start by creating a DistanceSensor...