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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

Creating a Linux program to control your mobile platform

So you know that you can set your servos. In this section, you'll create a program that will let you talk to your servos a bit more intuitively. You'll issue commands that tell the set of servos to go to specific angles, and they will go to those angles. You can then add a set of such commands to allow your legged mobile robot to lean left, lean right, or even take a step forward.

Let's start with a simple program that will make your legged mobile robot's servos go to 90 degrees (which should be somewhere close to the middle of the 180 degrees we can set. You'll start with the rc_test_servos code and modify it. To do this, copy the code to its own directory, along with the Makefile for these types of programs. Here is the code:

   #include "/usr/include/rc_usefulincludes.h"
#include ...
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