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Robotics : a project-based approach / Lakshmi Prayaga, Chandra Prayaga, Alex Whiteside, and Ramakrishna Suri

Author
Prayaga, Lakshmi
Published
Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, [2015]
Physical Description
xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Prayaga, Chandra, Whiteside, Alex, and Suri, Ramakrishna

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Contents
Introduction to robotics: History of robotics ; What is a robot? ; Robots in commercial applications ; Basic robot navigation ; Robots in the military ; Wif-fi networking ; Robots in medicine ; Weather monitor ; User interfaces ; Security ; Entertainment ; Mobile connections -- Build your own robot sweeper: Chapter objectives ; Introduction ; Materials required ; Part 1: assembling the robot ; Assembling the chassis ; Mounting the Arduino board ; Mounting the Ardumoto motor driver shield ; Mounting the ultrasonic sensor ; Part 2: the software ; Using the Arduino IDE ; Controlling the speed and direction of a motor ; Running both motors using function calls ; Code for the ultrasonic sensor ; Part 3: putting it all together ; Complete code for the sweeper robot -- Traveling robot: Part 1: line sensor ; How does a line sensor work? ; Assembling the robot with the sensors ; lineSensorChk sketch ; How the lineSensorChk code works ; Part 2: line tracking ; LineTracker sketch ; How the code works ; Part 3: learning to use the color sensor ; Connections between the color sensor pins and Arduino board pins ; lineClrSensor sketch for testing the line sensors and the color sensor ; Testing the lineClrSensor sketch ; How the code works ; Part 4: making the robot follow a track and stop at a specific point for a prescribed time ; lineandColorSensorTest sketch ; How the code works --, Intruder alarm: Activity 1: intruder alarm with a diode laser and photoresistor ; Sketch to control the laser ; How the code works ; Sketch to control the photoresistor ; How the code works ; Sketch combining the laser and the photoresistor ; How the code works ; Activity 2: proximity alarm with an ultrasonic range sensor ; Sketch for the proximity alarm ; How the code works ; Activity 3: touch sensor and alarm ; Sketch for the touch sensor ; How the code works ; Activity 4: keyboard and LEDs ; Sketch to light up LEDs with touch ; How the code works -- Robot networking and communications with wi-fi: Part 1: installing the wi-fi sensor and connecting to your network ; Connecting to an open network ; Connecting to a closed network ; Part 2: creating a telnet server ; For Microsoft Windows users ; For Mac/Linux users ; The complete sketch -- Robot medical assistant: Program components and connections ; Pill reminder sketch ; How the code works -- Data logger: Part 1: measuring and displaying ambient temperature ; Hardware connections ; Writing the sketch ; How the code works ; Part 2: data logging activities ; Activity 1: initializing the SD card reader ; Activity 2: writing data to a SD card ; Activity 3: reading data from a file ; Activity 4: logging temperature data --, and Remote-controlled user interfaces: Development software ; A graphical control for Arduino ; Materials required ; Introduction to Java ; Downloading and installing NetBeans ; Networking in Java ; Creating the user interface ; Optional activities -- Security robot: Setting up the hardware ; The complete relevant code blocks ; Variable setup ; Capture photo function -- Light and sound: Part 1: connect the NeoPixel ring to the Arduino and program pixel colors ; pixelColor0 sketch ; How the code works ; pixelColor1 sketch ; How the code works ; pixelColor2 sketch ; How the code works ; Part 2: attaching the microphone ; soundSensor1 ; How the code works ; Part 3: putting it all together ; soundLight4 ; How the code works -- Android app controller: Part 1: getting ready for Android ; Android programming architecture and language ; Installing the Android developer kit ; Installing the Genymotion Android emulator ; Creating a sample application ; Part 2: creating an Arduino controller app -- Additional robotics applications: Robots in medicine ; Robots in education ; Robots in the military and law enforcement ; Robots in industrial applications ; Trends in robot types ; Soft robotics ; Swarm robots.
Summary
Step-by-step projects based on the Arduino platform.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9781305271029 (pbk.)
1305271025 (pbk.)
Note
Includes index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Class of 1907 The Pennsylvania State University Engineering Library; 2014
Endowment Note
Class of 1907 The Pennsylvania State University Engineering Library
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