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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

Summary

This chapter added a small menu system to our robot to start different modes from a connected web browser.

You've seen how to drive a robot from a mobile phone and how to create interesting-looking animated widgets with SVG and JavaScript.

Your robot has now gained the ability to be driven manually. It may take you a while to get used to handling it, and manually correcting for veer (motors behaving slightly differently) is more challenging than when the PID systems correct themselves. Still, you will gain skills in driving it with your phone. You can use the camera on the front of the robot to get a robot's-eye view of the world.

You've turned the control server into a menu server and then made that start automatically when you turn on the robot. You've also seen how to connect your menu server to the video-server apps such as manual driving, color-tracking, or face-tracking apps. By making the buttons more touch-friendly on the menu server, you...