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Python Robotics Projects

You're reading from  Python Robotics Projects

Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788832922
Pages 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Prof. Diwakar Vaish Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Title Page
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Contributors
Preface
1. Robotics 101 2. Using GPIOs as Input 3. Making a Gardener Robot 4. Basics of Motors 5. Making a Pet Feeding Robot 6. Bluetooth-Controlled Robotic Car 7. Sensor Interface for Obstacle Avoidance 8. Making Your Own Area Scanner 9. Vision Processing 10. Making a Guard Robot 11. Basic Switching 12. Recognizing Humans with Jarvis 13. Making Jarvis IoT Enabled 14. Giving Voice to Jarvis 15. Gesture Recognition 16. Machine Learning 17. Gesture-Controlled Robotic Vehicle 18. Making a Robotic Arm 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Giving the car self-steering capabilities


I hope that you are having fun with this little zippy thing. It is interesting how simple the application of sensors can be and how much difference it can make. As you have learned the basics, it's now time to move ahead and give the car some more powers.

In the previous code, we just made the robot stop in front of the obstacles, why don't we make it steer around the car? It's going to be super simple yet super fun. All we need to do is to tweak the function stop() and make it able to turn. Obviously, we will also change the name of the function from stop() to turn() just for the sake of clarity. One thing to remember that you won't have to rewrite the code; all we need to do is some minor tweaking. So, let's see the code and then I will tell you what exactly has changed and why: 

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)

import Adafruit_ADS1x15
adc0 = Adafruit_ADS1x15.ADS1115()

GAIN = 1

adc0.start_adc(0, gain=GAIN)

Motor1a =...
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