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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from   BeagleBone Robotic Projects Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293136
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Blue FREE CHAPTER 2. Programming the BeagleBone Blue 3. Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement 4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 5. Allowing Our BeagleBone Blue to See 6. Providing Speech Input and Output 7. Making the Unit Very Mobile - Controlling Legged Movement 8. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot 9. By Land, By Sea, By Air 10. System Dynamics

Making your mobile platform truly mobile by issuing voice commands

You should now have a mobile platform that you can program to move in any number of ways. Unfortunately, you still have your LAN cable connected, so the platform isn't completely mobile. And once you have begun the program, you can't alter its behavior. In this section, you will use the principles from Chapter 2, Programming the BeagleBone Blue, to issue voice commands to initiate movement.

You'll need to modify your voice recognition program so it will run your Python program when it gets a voice command. If you feel rusty on how this works, review Chapter 6, Providing Speech Input and Output. We are going to make a simple modification to the continuous.c program in /home/debian/pocketsphinx-5prealpha/src/programs. To do this, type cd /homedebian/pocketsphinx-5prealpha/src/programs and then type...

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