Practical Arduino Robotics: A hands-on guide to bringing your robotics ideas to life using Arduino

Build your hardware, electronics, and programming skills, and use them to realize your advanced robotics projects with this powerful platform

Key Features

• Become an expert in selecting sensors, motors, and Arduino boards for any robotics project
• Discover how to write effective and reusable code for your Arduino robotics projects
• Learn to build a camera-based line follower and a self-balancing telepresence robot on your own

Book Description

Every robot needs a "brain," and the Arduino platform provides an incredibly accessible way to bring your Arduino robot to life. Anyone can easily learn to build and program their own robots with Arduino for hobby and commercial uses, making Arduino-based robots the popular choice for school projects, college courses, and the rapid prototyping of industrial applications!

Practical Arduino Robotics is a comprehensive guide that equips you with the necessary skills and techniques that can be applied to various projects and applications, from automating repetitive tasks in a laboratory to building engaging mobile robots.

Building on basic knowledge of programming and electronics, this book teaches you how to choose the right components, such as Arduino boards, sensors, and motors, and write effective code for your robotics project, including the use of advanced third-party Arduino libraries and interfaces, such as Analog, SPI, I2C, PWM, and UART. You'll also learn different ways to command your robots wirelessly, such as over Wi-Fi. Finally, with basic to advanced project examples, this book illustrates how to build exciting autonomous robots like a self-balancing telepresence robot.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and create your own custom robots for a wide variety of applications.

What you will learn

• Understand and use the various interfaces of an Arduino board
• Write the code to communicate with your sensors and motors
• Implement and tune methods for sensor signal processing
• Understand and implement state machines that control your robot
• Implement feedback control to create impressive robot capabilities
• Integrate hardware and software components into a reliable robotic system
• Tune, debug, and improve Arduino-based robots systematically

Who this book is for

If you're excited about robotics and want to start creating your own robotics projects from the hardware up, this book is for you. Whether you are an experienced software developer who wants to learn how to build physical robots, a hobbyist looking to elevate your Arduino skills to the next level, or a student with the desire to kick-start your DIY robotics journey, you'll find this book very useful. In order to successfully work with this book, you'll need basic familiarity with electronics, Arduino boards and the core concepts of computer programming.

打造您的硬體、電子和程式設計技能，並利用這個強大的平台實現您的高級機器人項目。

主要特點：

- 成為選擇傳感器、馬達和Arduino板的專家，適用於任何機器人項目。
- 發現如何為您的Arduino機器人項目編寫有效且可重用的代碼。
- 學習如何獨立建立基於攝像頭的線跟蹤器和自平衡遠程控制機器人。

書籍描述：

每個機器人都需要一個「大腦」，而Arduino平台提供了一種非常易於使用的方式來讓您的Arduino機器人活躍起來。任何人都可以輕鬆學習使用Arduino建立和編程自己的機器人，無論是作為愛好者還是商業用途，Arduino機器人都是學校項目、大學課程和工業應用的熱門選擇！

《實用Arduino機器人》是一本全面的指南，它為您提供了應用於各種項目和應用的必要技能和技術，從實驗室中自動化重複性任務到建立引人入勝的移動機器人。

在基本的程式設計和電子知識基礎上，本書教您如何選擇正確的元件，例如Arduino板、傳感器和馬達，並為您的機器人項目編寫有效的代碼，包括使用高級第三方Arduino庫和接口，例如模擬、SPI、I2C、PWM和UART。您還將學習不同的無線方式來遠程控制您的機器人，例如通過Wi-Fi。最後，通過基本到高級的項目示例，本書演示了如何建立令人興奮的自平衡遠程控制機器人等自主機器人。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠設計並創建自己的定制機器人，應用於各種應用領域。

您將學到什麼：

- 瞭解並使用Arduino板的各種接口。
- 編寫與傳感器和馬達通信的代碼。
- 實現和調整傳感器信號處理的方法。
- 瞭解並實現控制機器人的狀態機。
- 實現反饋控制以創建令人印象深刻的機器人功能。
- 將硬體和軟體組件整合成可靠的機器人系統。
- 系統地調整、除錯和改進基於Arduino的機器人。

本書適合對機器人感興趣並希望從硬體開始創建自己的機器人項目的讀者。無論您是一位有經驗的軟體開發人員，想要學習如何建立實體機器人，還是一位愛好者希望提升您的Arduino技能，或者是一位希望開始DIY機器人之旅的學生，您都會發現本書非常有用。為了成功使用本書，您需要對電子學、Arduino板和計算機編程的核心概念有基本的熟悉。

1. Introducing Robotics and the Arduino Ecosystem
2. Making Robots Perceive The World with Sensors
3. Making Your Robot Move and Interact with the World with Actuators
4. Selecting the Right Arduino Board for Your Project
5. Getting Started with Robot Programming
6. Understanding Object-Oriented Programming and Creating Arduino Libraries
7. Testing and Debugging with the Arduino IDE
8. Exploring Mechanical Design and the 3D Printing Toolchain
9. Designing the Power System of Your Robot
10. Working with Displays, LEDs, and Sound
11. Adding Wireless Interfaces to Your Robot
12. Building an Advanced Line-Following Robot Using a Camera
(N.B. Please use the Look Inside option to see further chapters)

1. 介紹機器人和Arduino生態系統
2. 使用感測器讓機器人感知世界
3. 使用執行器讓機器人移動和與世界互動
4. 選擇適合你的項目的Arduino板
5. 開始進行機器人編程
6. 理解物件導向編程並創建Arduino函式庫
7. 使用Arduino IDE進行測試和除錯
8. 探索機械設計和3D列印工具鏈
9. 設計機器人的電源系統
10. 使用顯示器、LED和聲音
11. 為機器人添加無線接口
12. 使用攝像頭建立高級的跟線機器人
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