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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

Working with H-bridge

The L298N motor driver IC can control two motors at a time. It consists of a dual H-bridge circuit. This means it consists of two circuits that look like the one shown in the following diagram, one for each motor:

The H-bridge circuit consists of four switches S1, S2, , and . These switches will open and close based on the input that we provide to the L298N IC.

Now, since we have two motors, there are four possible input combinations that we can provide to the L298N IC, as follows:

  • HIGH HIGH (1, 1)
  • HIGH LOW (1, 0)
  • LOW HIGH (0, 1)
  • LOW LOW (0, 0)

We will provide the HIGH (1) and LOW (0) signal to the S1 and S2 switches, as follows:

  1. First, when S1 = 1 and S2 =0, the S1 switch will be closed and the S2 switch will remain open. , or , will be 0, so the switch will be open. , or , will be 1, so the switch will be closed. Now, since the S1 and switches...
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