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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from   BeagleBone Robotic Projects Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293136
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Blue FREE CHAPTER 2. Programming the BeagleBone Blue 3. Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement 4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 5. Allowing Our BeagleBone Blue to See 6. Providing Speech Input and Output 7. Making the Unit Very Mobile - Controlling Legged Movement 8. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot 9. By Land, By Sea, By Air 10. System Dynamics

The BeagleBone Blue in robots that can go under the water

You've explored the possibilities of walking robots, flying robots, and sailing robots. The final frontier is robots that can actually manoeuvre under the water. It only makes sense that you use the same techniques that you've mastered to explore the undersea world. In this section, I'll detail how to use the capabilities that you have already developed in a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) robot. There are, of course, some interesting challenges that come with this type of project, so get ready to get wet.

As with the other projects in this chapter, there are possibilities to either buy an assembled robot or assemble one yourself. If you'd like to buy an assembled ROV, try http://openrov.com. This project, funded through Kickstarter, provides a complete package, including the electronics based on the BeagleBone...

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