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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

Constructing and connecting the robot

Constructing the robot properly is one of the most important steps. A properly constructed robot will move smoothly without any obstructions. Before constructing the robot, let's take a look at the complete list of components that you will need.

The parts required for building the robot include the following:

  • A robot chassis, which must include the following components:
    • An upper plate and a lower plate
    • Two BO DC motors (BO is a type of DC motor that generally is yellow in color)
    • Two wheels
    • One castor wheel
    • Spacers
    • Screws for connecting different parts
  • One screwdriver
  • One L298N motor driver
  • Seven or eight connecting wires
  • One battery snapper
  • One 9V battery

Since these robot chassis are created by small-scale companies and there isn't a standard robot chassis that is available internationally, the robot chassis that I'm using...

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