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Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

You're reading from Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials Harness the power of Raspberry Pi with Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) to create an amazing walking robot

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785284847

Length 158 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Richard Grimmett

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Configuring and Programming Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER

2. Building the Biped

3. Motion for the Biped

4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

5. Path Planning and Your Biped

6. Adding Vision to Your Biped

7. Accessing Your Biped Remotely

Index

Chapter 6. Adding Vision to Your Biped

Now that your biped is up and mobile, is able to find barriers, and knows how to plan its path, you can now start to have it move around autonomously. However, you may want your robot to follow a color or motion.

In this chapter, you will be learning:

How to add a webcam to your biped robot
How to add RaspiCam to your biped robot
How to install and use OpenCV, an open source vision package
How to follow motion with your biped robot

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Authors (1)

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.

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