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Smart Internet of Things Projects

You're reading from   Smart Internet of Things Projects Discover how to build your own smart Internet of Things projects and bring a new degree of interconnectivity to your world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466518
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Agus Kurniawan Agus Kurniawan
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Preface 1. Making Your IoT Project Smart 2. Decision System for IoT Projects FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Your Own Machine Vision 4. Making Your Own Autonomous Car Robot 5. Building Voice Technology on IoT Projects 6. Building Data Science-based Cloud for IoT Projects Index

Making your own autonomous car


All materials to build an autonomous car have been provided. Now you can own an autonomous car based on your requirements. You can make an autonomous ,mobile machine tailored to a specific task, for instance, a vacuum cleaner robot. You can use an Ultrasonic module to detect obstacles.

In my opinion, the big issue in making a vacuum cleaner robot is the cleaning path algorithm—how the robot visits all areas. It happens because the robot doesn't have a map. You could use a microSD card module to store every visited area. With a semi-autonomous robot, we can use middleware to guide the robot about a cleaning path.

Consider the example of Roomba from iRobot http://www.irobot.com/For-the-Home/Vacuuming/Roomba.aspx. I found out that the Roomba robot uses the cleaning path algorithm shown in the following figure:

Read these papers (4,5,6) to get an idea of how to build a vacuum cleaner robot.

By integrating sensor and actuator devices...

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