Robotics Programming 101: A Simple Guide to Programming Robots - Softcover

Preston, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146113594X ISBN 13: 9781461135944

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2011

Synopsis

NOTE: This book is out of date. It uses code from 2011 and will not work with modern microcontrollers or programming languages without a lot of effort. Purchase at your own risk.

Robotics Programming 101 shows you how to plan your first robotics program, pick a brain, language and operating system for your first robot. This book is also filled with programming examples in PBASIC, Arduino, Java and JRuby. Some of these examples include: serial communication, servo and microcontroller programs, sensors like sonar and a digital compass, text-to-speech, speech-recognition, computer-vision, differential drives, robot arms, basic navigation, and much more!
The reader should have a basic understanding of robot parts, like servos, sonars, and microcontrollers (BASIC Stamp & Arduino) and the Java or Ruby programming language.
Table of Contents
1. Quick Start
2. Planning
3. Brains
4. Languages
5. Operating Systems
6. Sample Robots
7. Serial Ports
8. Servo Controllers
9. Microcontrollers
10. Sonar
11. Compass
12. Everything Together
13. Text-To-Speech
14. Speech Recognition
15. Image Acquisition
16. Image Processing
17. Motion Examples
18. Navigation Examples
19. Wrap-Up

About this title

About the Author

Scott Preston is an author from Columbus, Ohio. He's written books on robotics and mobile application development for Apress and self-published a few books here and there. If you would like to learn more about Scott follow him on twitter @scottpreston.

Edition details

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 146113594X
• ISBN 13: 9781461135944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Hofferman Jon