Mastering BeagleBone Robotics

Master the power of the BeagleBone Black to maximize your robot-building skills and create awesome projects

About This Book

• Create complex robots to explore land, sea, and the skies
• Control your robots through a wireless interface, or make them autonomous and self-directed
• This is a step-by-step guide to advancing your robotics skills through the power of the BeagleBone

Who This Book Is For

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.

In Detail

Robots are quickly bursting from the world of science fiction right into our own living rooms. The small-but-mighty BeagleBone Black embedded processor provides the power and capability to program your own robotic projects using its complete Linux development environment.

Mastering BeagleBone Robotics lets you push your creativity to the limit through complex, diverse, and fascinating robotic projects right from scratch. Start off simple by building a tracked robot that moves, sees its environment, and navigates barriers. Go aquatic with a sailing robot that controls its rudder and sail, senses the direction of the wind, and plots its course using GPS. Then plunge beneath the surface of the waves as you create and control a robotic submarine to explore the world underwater with a webcam link. Walk on all fours with a limbed creation, and take to the skies as you create a quadcopter, then use the BeagleBone Black to make it autonomous and fly in its own direction using its own power.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Preparing the BeagleBone Black
Chapter 2: Building a Basic Tracked Vehicle
Chapter 3: Adding Sensors to your Tracked Vehicle
Chapter 4: Vision and Image Processing
Chapter 5: Building a Robot that Can Walk
Chapter 6: A Robot that Can Sail
Chapter 7: Using GPS for Navigation
Chapter 8: Measuring Wind Speed – Integrating Analog Sensors
Chapter 9: An Underwater Remote Operated Vehicle
Chapter 10: A Quadcopter
Chapter 11: An Autonomous Quadcopter