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Intel Edison Projects

You're reading from   Intel Edison Projects Build exciting IoT projects with Intel Edison

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288409
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Avirup Basu Avirup Basu
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Preface 1. Setting up Intel Edison FREE CHAPTER 2. Weather Station (IoT) 3. Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation) 4. Intel Edison and Security System 5. Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison 6. Manual Robotics with Intel Edison

Manual robotic system

We have had a look at the autonomous robotic architecture. Manual robotics also deal with a similar architecture; the only difference being that we have a fully-fledged controller that is responsible for most of the action:

Manual robot architecture

There isn't much of a difference between the architecture discussed here and the one discussed in Chapter 5, Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison. We've added a receiver and a transmitter unit here which would have been present in the earlier use case as well. When dealing with robotics, the entire architecture falls under the same roof.

Manual robotics may not be limited to only manual robots. It may be a blend of manual and autonomous functionality, because a fully manual robot may not typically be called a robot. However, we are aware of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Sometimes the terminology...

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