Mastering BeagleBone robotics : master the power of the BeagleBone Black to maximize your robot-building skills and create awesome projects / / Richard Grimmett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788052003321
• Autore: Grimmett Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, England : , : Packt Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-78398-891-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Collana: Community Experience Distilled
• Disciplina: 005.2762
• Soggetti: BeagleBone Black (Computer) - Programming; Robots - Control systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Preparing the BeagleBone Black; Unpacking and powering up; Installing an operating system; Connecting to an external computer; Installing a Windows manager; Installing additional core software packages; Installing a vision library; Installing sound capability; Creating and recording sound; Making your BeagleBone Black speak; Installing speech recognition; Improving speech recognition accuracy; Responding to voice commands; Adding additional hardware and software for a fully functional core systemSummary; Chapter 2: Building a Basic Tracked Vehicle; Choosing the tracked platform; Connecting a motor controller to control the speed of your tracked platform; Choosing the battery; Connecting the motor controller; Connecting the motor controller system; Controlling your mobile platform programmatically using the BeagleBone Black and Python; Adding program arguments to control your platform; Accessing motor control via voice commands; Summary; Chapter 3: Adding Sensors to your Tracked Vehicle; Basics of sensors; Adding distance sensorsSonar sensors; Adding an array of inexpensive sonar sensors to the project; IR sensors; Dynamic path planning for your robot; Basic path planning; Avoiding obstacles; Summary; Chapter ; 4: Vision and Image Processing; Connecting a webcam to the BeagleBone Black; Using OpenCV; Finding colored objects in your vision system; Following colored objects with your vision system; Finding movement in your vision system; Following movement with your robot; Summary; Chapter 5: Building a Robot that Can Walk; Building robots that can walk; Working of servomotors; Building the quadruped platformUsing a servo controller to control the servos; Communicating with the servo controller via a PC; Connecting the servo controller to the BeagleBone Black; Creating a program on Linux to control your quadruped; Issuing voice commands to your quadruped; Summary; Chapter 6: A Robot that Can Sail; The BeagleBone Black and robots that can sail; Building the sailboat platform; Controlling servos with the BeagleBone Black; Controlling the servos on the sailboat from a program; Remote control of the sailboat; A ZigBee tutorial; Summary; Chapter 7: Using GPS for NavigationBeginning with a GPS tutorial; Connecting GPS to the BeagleBone Black; Communicating with the GPS; Parsing the GPS information; Calculating distance and bearing; Summary; Chapter 8: Measuring Wind Speed - Integrating Analog Sensors; Connecting an analog wind speed sensor; Getting sensor data from the wind speed sensor; Some basics of sailing; Summary; Chapter 9: An Underwater Remote Operated Vehicle; Building the hardware for the ROV; Controlling brushless DC motors using the BeagleBone Black; Program to control DC motors using the BeagleBone Black; Connecting to the BeagleBone Black via a long LAN
• Sommario/riassunto: If you want a simple guide to building complex robots, then this book is for you. You'll need some programming knowledge and experience working with mechanical systems.