Mastering BeagleBone Robotics.

Intro -- Mastering BeagleBone Robotics -- Table of Contents -- Mastering BeagleBone Robotics -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 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 system -- Summary -- 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 -- 3. Adding Sensors to Your Tracked Vehicle -- Basics of sensors -- Adding distance sensors -- Sonar 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 -- 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 -- 5. Building a Robot that Can Walk -- Building robots that can walk -- Working of servomotors -- Building the quadruped platform -- Using 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 -- 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 -- 7. Using GPS for Navigation -- Beginning with a GPS tutorial -- Connecting GPS to the BeagleBone Black -- Communicating with the GPS -- Parsing the GPS information -- Calculating distance and bearing -- Summary -- 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 -- 9. An Underwater Remotely 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 -- Accessing a camera for your project -- Summary -- 10. A Quadcopter -- Basics of quadcopter flight -- Building the quadcopter -- Connecting the BeagleBone Black to the quadcopter -- Controlling the quadcopter using the BeagleBone Black -- Summary -- 11. An Autonomous Quadcopter.

Controlling quadcopter flight wirelessly -- Adding a game controller to your system -- Adding a webcam for autonomous flight -- Adding GPS for autonomous flight -- Summary -- Index.

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.

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