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Learning Robotics using Python

You're reading from   Learning Robotics using Python Design, simulate, program, and prototype an autonomous mobile robot using ROS, OpenCV, PCL, and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623315
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Robot Operating System 2. Understanding the Basics of Differential Robots FREE CHAPTER 3. Modeling the Differential Drive Robot 4. Simulating a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS 5. Designing ChefBot Hardware and Circuits 6. Interfacing Actuators and Sensors to the Robot Controller 7. Interfacing Vision Sensors with ROS 8. Building ChefBot Hardware and the Integration of Software 9. Designing a GUI for a Robot Using Qt and Python 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interfacing ChefBot sensors to the Tiva-C LaunchPad

We have looked at the interfacing of the individual sensors that we are going to use in ChefBot. In this section, we will learn how to integrate sensors into the LaunchPad board. The Energia code to program Tiva-C LaunchPad is available in the cloned files at GitHub. The connection diagram showing the connection of the Tiva-C LaunchPad with the sensors is as follows. From this diagram, we learn how the sensors are interconnected with LaunchPad:

Sensor-interfacing diagram of ChefBot

M1 and M2 are two differential-drive motors that we are using in this robot. The kind of motor we are going to use here is a DC geared motor with an encoder from Pololu. The motor terminals are connected to the dual VNH2SP30 motor driver from Pololu. One of the motors is connected with reverse polarity because in differential steering, one motor rotates...

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