Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

Richard Grimmett

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781785284847
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatique
• Thema: Matériel

Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

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Table of Contents

Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

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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

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Credits

Author

Richard Grimmett

Reviewers

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 teste...