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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839218804
Pages 602 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Danny Staple Danny Staple
Profile icon Danny Staple

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
Chapter 1: Introduction to Robotics Chapter 2: Exploring Robot Building Blocks – Code and Electronics Chapter 3: Exploring the Raspberry Pi Chapter 4: Preparing a Headless Raspberry Pi for a Robot Chapter 5: Backing Up the Code with Git and SD Card Copies Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
Chapter 6: Building Robot Basics – Wheels, Power, and Wiring Chapter 7: Drive and Turn – Moving Motors with Python Chapter 8: Programming Distance Sensors with Python Chapter 9: Programming RGB Strips in Python Chapter 10: Using Python to Control Servo Motors Chapter 11: Programming Encoders with Python Chapter 12: IMU Programming with Python Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
Chapter 13: Robot Vision – Using a Pi Camera and OpenCV Chapter 14: Line-Following with a Camera in Python Chapter 15: Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft Chapter 16: Diving Deeper with the IMU Chapter 17: Controlling the Robot with a Phone and Python Section 4: Taking Robotics Further
Chapter 18: Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further Chapter 19: Planning Your Next Robot Project – Putting It All Together Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercises

  1. Try experimenting with turning on different logging levels and differently named loggers, tuning how much output a robot behavior creates.
  2. For the PID behaviors, tune the PIDs, try high values for the proportional or the integral, and observe how this makes the robot behave. Could you combine this with graphing in matplotlib to observe the PID behavior?
  3. There are a few ways that the drive distance code could be improved. Applying a PID controller to the distance moved by the primary could make it close in more precisely on the exact distance to travel. Detecting no movement in either encoder could be used to make the code stop after a timeout so that it doesn't drive off without stopping. Try this out.
  4. You could now use this code to make further geometric shapes or to follow paths without a line. Try adding high-level left turn/right turn 90-degree functions as building blocks for right-angled path construction, then use this to make paths.
  5. Consider...
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