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Learn Robotics Programming

You're reading from  Learn Robotics Programming

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789340747
Pages 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Danny Staple Danny Staple
Profile icon Danny Staple
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Introduction to Robotics 2. Exploring Robot Building Blocks - Code and Electronics 3. Introducing the Raspberry Pi - Starting with Raspbian 4. Preparing a Raspberry Pi for a Robot - Headless by Default 5. Backing Up the Code with Git and SD Card Copies 6. Building Robot Basics - Wheels, Power, and Wiring 7. Drive and Turn - Moving Motors with Python 8. Programming Line-Following Sensors Using Python 9. Programming RGB Strips in Python 10. Using Python to Control Servo Motors 11. Programming Distance Sensors with Python 12. Programming Encoders with Python 13. Robot Vision - Using a Pi Camera and OpenCV 14. Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft 15. Programming a Gamepad on Raspberry Pi with Python 16. Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further 17. Planning Your Next Robot Project - Putting It All Together 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Preparing the Raspberry Pi for our controller and driving with it

Our Raspberry Pi has already been able to run web services, using Flask to create a menu server and video servers. We can use image and control queues to make a behavior interact with a web server. We are going to reuse these capabilities. In the phone app, the slider controls will need to be smart. The next diagram shows the parts of our manual drive system:

The system overview of a manual drive app

At the bottom layer, the stop motors and set motor speed calls are made to the robot. These are from the behavior based on timeouts or on the control message queue from the server. Meanwhile, the behavior loop will also be taking image frames from the camera, encoding them, and pushing them onto the display frame queue.

The next layer up is the Flask web server. This consumes the display frame queue supplying frames...

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