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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

Menu modes – choosing your robot's behavior

Our book has introduced quite a collection of robot behaviors and invited you to create more. We've talked about how SSH can be cumbersome to start robot programs—even just remembering the options you have or pressing the Ctrl + C combination to stop can be frustrating.

In this section, we are going to create a menu system to select them. A convenient and phone-friendly way to do this is to serve it to the phone's browser, so we take that approach with our robot. We will also use a desktop browser to test this code.

We can extend the system we built in the Starting a behavior remotely section of Chapter 15, Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft, adding a user interface (UI). We'll make this UI as templates, with some placeholders replaced by code.

Let's take a look in the following diagram at how this system will work:

Figure 17.1 – How the control...