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Building Smart LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Robots

You're reading from   Building Smart LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Robots Leverage the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 platform to build and program intelligent robots

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471565
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kyle Markland Kyle Markland
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Programming

Although the Falcon is remotely controlled by the user via a remote control, its RC program is quite intelligent because it coordinates the complex actions and decision making behind the scenes, resulting in a smooth and user-friendly program.

Control scheme

We should establish what each of the buttons on the EV3 remote will do. Earlier, we said that the driving and steering functions are independent of one another. We will program the controls accordingly: the left (red) side of the controller will control the driving, where up is forward and down is reverse; the right (blue) side will control the steering, where the up button will steer the Falcon's wheels to the right and the down button will steer them...

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