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Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days

You're reading from   Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days Build exciting projects using smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286429
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. A Simple Smart Gardening System 2. A Smart Parking System FREE CHAPTER 3. Making Your Own Vending Machine 4. A Smart Digital Advertising Dashboard 5. A Smart Speaker Machine 6. Autonomous Firefighter Robot 7. Multi-Robot Cooperation Using Swarm Intelligence 8. Essential Hardware Components

Basic remote robot navigation

A robot can be controlled remotely through radio communication. We can use an RF module, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth to communicate between robot and another system.

In this section, we'll try to control a robot from a computer using Bluetooth. In general, a communication model between a robot and a computer can be described as follows:

There are some radio and wireless modules that you can use to integrate with your robot to communicate with a computer.

For testing, I use the MiniQ Discover Arduino for robot platform from DFRobot: https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1144.html. Since this robot platform uses the Romeo board (Arduino compatible) as the core robot board, it supports an RF/wireless module-based XBee shield. You can check it out at https://www.dfrobot.com/product-844.html. This is what it looks like:

I use Bluno Bee (https://www.dfrobot.com...

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