Grimmett Richard. Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

Packt Publishing Ltd., 2015. — 158 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78528-484-7This book is for anyone who has some background in using the Raspberry Pi to
create robotics projects. Some programming background is assumed as you create
a biped robot that can walk, sense its environment, plan its movements, and follow
movement and color - all autonomously.What this book covers:
1. Configuring and Programming Raspberry Pi, begins with a discussion on how
to connect power, and it continues through setting up a full system that's configured
and ready to begin connecting any of the amazing devices and Software capabilities
to develop advanced robotics applications.
2. Building the Biped, shows how to construct the mechanics of the biped
platform whether you want to use 3D print, purchase, or construct your own legs
and body.
3. Motion for the Biped, talks about how once you have the platform built,
you'll need to program it to walk, wave, play dead, or perform any number of neat
motion segments so that you can coordinate the movement of your platform.
4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors, shows you how to add IR sensors so that
you can avoid running into barriers.
5. Path Planning and Your Biped, covers how to plan the movement of your
biped. As you move around, you'll want to be able to move from point A to point B.
6. Adding Vision to Your Biped, provides the details of how to connect a
webcam, the hardware, and the software so that we can use it to input visual data
into our system.
7. Accessing Your Biped Remotely, covers the basics of how to configure the
Raspberry Pi as a wireless access point so that you can control your biped remotely.