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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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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement

You can access your board now. You've learned some simple programming. Now you will add the capability to move the entire project. Perhaps the easiest way to make our projects mobile is to add a wheeled base. You'll do that in this chapter, where you will be introduced to some of the basics of controlling DC motors and using the BeagleBone Blue to control the speed and direction of your wheeled platform.

Even though you can access your board, you need to make it mobile to really call it a robot. In this chapter, you'll learn how to attach your board, both mechanically and electrically, to a board so that your projects can be mobile. Mobility; what could be more amazing than that?

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Connecting the BeagleBone Blue directly to your wheeled platform
  • Controlling...
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