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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

Writing the line-following behavior

Now we are ready to build a more interesting behavior. However, for the same reasons covered in Chapter 7, Drive and Turn - Moving Motors with Python, we now want to add our sensors into the robot object. This means that, on a different robot with sensor on different pins, or regardless of the pull up configuration, the behavior written on top of the robot layer will still work. We will add the sensors to this, then create the line-following behavior.

Adding the sensors to the Robot object

Open up robot.py from the last chapter. In the imports section, we will want the LineSensor object from GPIO Zero:

from gpiozero import LineSensor

In the constructor, the __init__ method for the robot...

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