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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most complex or repetitive tasks are automated. Smart robots have the potential to revolutionize how we perform all kinds of tasks with high accuracy and efficiency. With this second edition of Learn Robotics Programming, you'll see how a combination of the Raspberry Pi and Python can be a great starting point for robot programming. The book starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot and shows you how to design, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you'll add different outputs and sensors, learn robot building skills, and write code to add autonomous behavior using sensors and a camera. You'll also be able to upgrade your robot with Wi-Fi connectivity to control it using a smartphone. Finally, you'll understand how you can apply the skills that you've learned to visualize, lay out, build, and code your future robot building projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built an interesting robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence operations and be well versed in programming robots and creating complex robotics projects using what you've learned.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
7
Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
15
Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
21
Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

Technical requirements

Before we get started, make sure you have the following parts:

  • The Raspberry Pi robot and the code from the previous chapter: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Robotics-Programming-Second-Edition/tree/master/chapter10.
  • Two slotted speed sensor encoders. Search for slotted speed sensor, Arduino speed sensor, LM393 speed sensor, or the Photo Interrupter sensor module. Include the term 3.3 V to ensure its compatible. See the The encoders we are using section for images of these.
  • Long male-to-female jumper cables.
  • A ruler to measure the wheels' size on your robot – or better yet, calipers, if you can use them.

The code for this chapter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Robotics-Programming-Second-Edition/tree/master/chapter11.

Check out the following video to see the Code in Action: https://bit.ly/2XDFae0