Chapter 5. Path Planning and Your Biped
Now that your biped is up and mobile and able to find barriers, you can now start to have it move around autonomously. However, you'll want to have your robot planed his path, that is, if it knows where it has started and the desired end point, it can move from the starting point to the end point.
In this chapter, you will be learning about:
- How to add a compass to your biped, so you'll have a sense of direction
- Learning some basic path planning techniques for your robot
Connecting a digital compass to the Raspberry Pi
One of the important pieces of information that might be useful for your robot, it if is going to plan its own path, is its direction of travel. So, let's learn how to hook up a digital compass to the Raspberry Pi.
There are several chips that provide digital compass capability; one of the most common is the HMC5883L 3-Axis Digital Compass chip. This chip is packaged onto a module by several companies, but almost...
