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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimmett, Richard, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BeagleBone Black (Computer)--Programming.

BeagleBone Black (Computer).

Robots--Control systems.

Robots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Grimmett Richard: Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783988914

1783988916

OCLC:

898753786