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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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Product type Paperback
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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Dinesh Tavasalkar Dinesh Tavasalkar
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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

Pulse Width Modulation using softPWM

PWM is a powerful technique that can use to control the power that's delivered to an electronic component like LEDs and motors. Using PWM, we can perform operations like controlling the brightness of an LED or reducing the speed of a motor. In this section, we will first understand the way in which a PWM works and then we will write a simple PWM program to increase the brightness of an LED, step by step.

How PWM works

In the previous Blink.cpp program, we applied a digital signal from the RPi to the LED. Digital signals either have a HIGH state or a LOW state. In, HIGH, state the Raspberry Pi pins produces a voltage of 3.3V and in a LOW state, the pins produce a voltage of 0V. Consequently...

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