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Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

You're reading from   Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++ Leverage Raspberry Pi 3 and C++ libraries to build intelligent robotics applications

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Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139006
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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Dinesh Tavasalkar is a trainer and online instructor from India. He has trained more than 8,000+ students on topics related to robotics, Internet of Things, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Android app development, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Dinesh's online courses have been undertaken by 25,000+ people on Udemy from more than 150+ countries. Some of his popular courses on Udemy include Robotics for beginners, Smartphone Control Robot using Arduino and Android, Build Augmented Reality apps using Unity and Vuforia, and Build Virtual Reality games for Google Cardboard using Unity. He also runs a YouTube channel called EngineersDream, where he teaches Android application development.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with wiringPi on a Raspberry Pi
2. Introduction to the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 3. Implementing Blink with wiringPi 4. Section 2: Raspberry Pi Robotics
5. Programming the Robot 6. Building an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot 7. Controlling a Robot Using a Laptop 8. Section 3: Face and Object Recognition Robot
9. Accessing the RPi Camera with OpenCV 10. Building an Object-Following Robot with OpenCV 11. Face Detection and Tracking Using the Haar Classifier 12. Section 4: Smartphone-Controlled Robot
13. Building a Voice-Controlled Robot 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building an Object-Following Robot with OpenCV

After installing OpenCV in the previous chapter, it is now time to perform image-processing operations using the OpenCV library. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Image processing with OpenCV
  • Viewing a video feed from the Pi camera
  • Building an object-following robot
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Dinesh Tavasalkar is a trainer and online instructor from India. He has trained more than 8,000+ students on topics related to robotics, Internet of Things, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Android app development, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Dinesh's online courses have been undertaken by 25,000+ people on Udemy from more than 150+ countries. Some of his popular courses on Udemy include Robotics for beginners, Smartphone Control Robot using Arduino and Android, Build Augmented Reality apps using Unity and Vuforia, and Build Virtual Reality games for Google Cardboard using Unity. He also runs a YouTube channel called EngineersDream, where he teaches Android application development.
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Lentin Joseph is an author and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qbotics Labs in India. He has 7 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in ROS, OpenCV, and PCL. He has authored four books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners. He is currently pursuing his master's in Robotics from India and is also doing research at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA.
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