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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to incorporate wheel encoder sensors into our robot, and used them to determine how far each wheel has turned. We've seen how to use this to get the robot onto a straighter path using a reduced PID Controller and then used this to drive a specific distance. We then took the calculations further to calculate turning a corner in terms of wheel movements, and drive the robot in a square.

In the next couple of chapters, we will be exploring giving our robot even more interactive and intelligent behaviors, with chapters on visual processing using a Raspberry Pi Camera, speech processing on a handset with MyCroft, and adding a gamepad to the handset to remotely drive or select modes on the robot.