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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 an array of sensors

To do this, connect the additional pins, as follows:

Arduino pin Sensor pin
5V Sensor 1 VCC
GND Sensor 1 GND
12 Sensor 1 Trig
11 Sensor 1 Echo
5V Sensor 2 VCC
GND Sensor 2 GND
10 Sensor 2 Trig
9 Sensor 2 Echo
5V Sensor 3 VCC
GND Sensor 3 GND
8 Sensor 3 Trig
7 Sensor 3 Echo

Here is a picture of the three sensors assembled:

Now that the sensors are connected, you'll need to add some functionality to the Arduino code to communicate with all three sensors. Here is that Arduino code:

    #include <NewPing.h>
#define TRIGGER_PIN1 12
#define ECHO_PIN1 11
#define TRIGGER_PIN2 10#define ECHO_PIN2 9
#define TRIGGER_PIN3 8
#define ECHO_PIN3 7
#define MAX_DISTANCE 200
NewPing sonar1(TRIGGER_PIN1, ECHO_PIN1, MAX_DISTANCE);
NewPing sonar2(TRIGGER_PIN2, ECHO_PIN2, MAX_DISTANCE);
NewPing sonar3(TRIGGER_PIN3...
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