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Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials
Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials
Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials
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  • Construct a two-legged robot that can walk, turn, and dance
  • Add vision and sensors to your robot so that it can “see” the environment and avoid barriers
  • A fast-paced, practical guide with plenty of screenshots to develop a fully functional robot
Who This Book Is For

If you are a programmer with an interest in building advanced robotics projects using inexpensive hardware and open source software, then this book is for you. Some experience with computer programming and implementing simple mechanical systems is required.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 19, 2015
ISBN9781785285646
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    Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials - Grimmett Richard

    Table of Contents

    Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

    Credits

    About the Author

    About the Reviewers

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    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Downloading the color images of this book

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Configuring and Programming Raspberry Pi

    Configuring Raspberry Pi – the brain of your robot

    Installing the operating system

    Adding a remote graphical user interface

    Establishing wireless access

    Programming on Raspberry Pi

    Creating and running Python programs on the Raspberry Pi

    An introduction to the C/C++ programming language

    Summary

    2. Building the Biped

    Building robots that can walk

    How servo motors work

    Building the biped platform

    Using a servo controller to control the servos

    Communicating with the servo controller with a PC

    Connecting the servo controller to the Raspberry Pi

    Creating a program to control your biped

    Summary

    3. Motion for the Biped

    A basic stable pose

    A basic walking motion

    A basic turn for the robot

    Summary

    4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

    Connecting Raspberry Pi to an infrared sensor

    Connecting Raspberry Pi to a USB sonar sensor

    Summary

    5. Path Planning and Your Biped

    Connecting a digital compass to the Raspberry Pi

    Accessing the compass programmatically

    Dynamic path planning for your robot

    Basic path planning

    Avoiding obstacles

    Summary

    6. Adding Vision to Your Biped

    Installing a camera on your biped robot

    Installing a USB camera on Raspberry Pi

    Installing RaspiCam on Raspberry Pi

    Downloading and installing OpenCV – a fully featured vision library

    Edge Detection and OpenCv

    Color and motion finding

    Summary

    7. Accessing Your Biped Remotely

    Adding a wireless dongle and creating an access point

    Adding a joystick remote control

    Adding the capability to see remotely

    Summary

    Index

    Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials


    Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

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    Credits

    Author

    Richard Grimmett

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    Ashwin Pajankar

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    About the Author

    Richard Grimmett has more fun working on robotic projects than should be allowed. He also enjoys teaching computer science and electrical engineering at Brigham Young University, Idaho. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in leadership studies. He has written books on how to use Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone Black for robotics projects.

    About the Reviewers

    Ashwin Pajankar is a Bangalore-based engineer who wears many different hats depending on the occasion. He graduated from IIIT Hyderabad in 2012 with a master of technology degree in computer science and engineering. He has a total of 5 years of experience in the software industry, where he has worked in different domains, such as testing, data warehousing, replication, and automation. He is very well versed in DB concepts, SQL, and scripting with Bash and Python. He has earned professional certifications in products from Oracle, IBM, Informatica, and Teradata. He's also an ISTQB-certified tester.

    In his free time, he volunteers for different technical hackathons or social-service activities. He was introduced to the Raspberry Pi in one of the hackathons, and he's been hooked on it ever since. He writes a lot of code in Python, C, C++, and Shell on his Raspberry Pi B+ cluster. He's currently working on creating his own Beowulf cluster of 64 Raspberry Pi 2 models.

    Werner Ziegelwanger, MSc, has studied game engineering and simulation, and he got his master's degree in 2011. His master's thesis was published with the title Terrain Rendering with Geometry Clipmaps for Games, by Diplomica Verlag. His hobbies include programming and games and working with all kinds of technical gadgets.

    Werner was a self-employed programmer for some years and mainly worked on Web projects. During this time, he started his own blog (http://developer-blog.net), which is about the Raspberry Pi, Linux, and open source.

    Since 2013, Werner has been working as a Magento developer and the head of programming at mStage GmbH, an eCommerce company focused on Magento.

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