C/C++ is one the legacy programming language for Robotics Programming. This book will help you understand and build complexly structured robots and implement various C/C++ programming libraries in it.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• About Packt
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Section 1: Getting Started with wiringPi on a Raspberry Pi
• Chapter 1: Introduction to the Raspberry Pi
  • Technical requirements
    • Software required
    • Hardware requirements
      • For Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Raspberry Pi Zero W
      • Additional hardware for Raspberry Pi 3B+
      • Additional hardware requirements for Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • Understanding the Raspberry Pi
    • The Raspberry Pi 3B+
    • The Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • Setting up a Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a desktop computer
    • Installing Raspbian OS on an SD card
      • Downloading and installing Etcher 
      • Downloading the Raspbian Stretch image 
      • Writing the Raspbian Stretch image to a microSD card
    • Setting up the Raspberry Pi 3B+
      • Connecting the Raspberry Pi 3B+ to the internet
  • Connecting the Raspberry Pi 3B+ to a laptop via Wi-Fi
    • Creating an SSH file on a microSD card
    • Connecting the Raspberry Pi 3B+ to a Wi-Fi network using PuTTY
    • Enabling the VNC server
    • Viewing the Raspberry Pi output on the VNC Viewer
      • Increase the VNC's screen resolution
      • Handling VNC and PuTTY errors
  • Setting up the Raspberry Pi Zero W as a desktop computer
    • Setting up the Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • Connecting the Raspberry Pi Zero W to a laptop via Wi-Fi
    • Connecting the Raspberry Pi Zero W to a Wi-Fi network using PuTTY
    • Enabling VNC Viewer for Raspberry Pi Zero W
    • Viewing Raspberry Pi Zero W output on VNC Viewer
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Chapter 2: Implementing Blink with wiringPi
  • Technical requirements
  • Installing the wiringPi library in the Raspberry Pi
    • Accessing Raspberry Pi GPIO pins via wiringPi
  • Making an LED blink
    • Wiring connections
    • The blinking program
      • Uploading the code to the Raspberry Pi
  • Smart light – working with digital sensor
    • The LDR sensor and the way it works
    • Wiring connection
    •  Smart light program
  • Pulse Width Modulation using softPWM
    • How PWM works
    • The softPWM library
      • Making an LED blink with the softPWM library
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Section 2: Raspberry Pi Robotics
• Chapter 3: Programming the Robot
  • Technical requirements
  • Choosing a robot chassis
  • Constructing and connecting the robot
    • Constructing the robot
    • Connecting the motor driver to the Raspberry Pi 
      • What is a motor driver?
      • Wiring connections
  • Working with H-bridge
  • Moving the robot
    • Moving the robot backward
    • Stopping the robot
    • Different types of turns
      • Axial turns
        • Axial left turn
        • Axial right turn
      • Radial turn
        • Radial left turn
        • Radial right turn
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Chapter 4: Building an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
  • Technical requirements
  • Using an ultrasonic sensor
    • How an ultrasonic sensor measures distances
      • The arithmetic equation for determining the time taken
    • Wiring the ultrasonic sensor to the Raspberry Pi
    • The HC-SR04 sensor program
  • Using an LCD
    • Wiring the 16x2 LCD to the Raspberry Pi
    • Programming the LCD
      • The LCD program
      • The LCD and the ultrasonic sensor program
    • What is the I2C protocol?
      • Wiring the I2C LCD and the Raspberry Pi
      • Programming the LCD with the I2C LCD module
      • The I2C LCD and the ultrasonic sensor program
  • Building an obstacle-avoiding robot
    • Wiring connections
    • Programming the obstacle-avoiding robot
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Chapter 5: Controlling a Robot Using a Laptop
  • Technical requirements
  • Installing the ncurses library 
    • ncurses functions
    • Writing a HelloWorld program with ncurses
      • Compiling and running the program
  • Controlling LEDs and a buzzer using ncurses
    • Wiring connections
    • Writing the LEDBuzzer.cpp program
  • Controlling a rover using a laptop keyboard
    • Building a laptop-controlled rover program
    • Tracing a square path
  • Installing and setting up QT5 
    • Setting up QT5
  • Controlling LEDs with GUI buttons
    • Creating a QT project 
      • Dealing with errors
  • Controlling a rover using a laptop with QT5
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Section 3: Face and Object Recognition Robot
• Chapter 6: Accessing the RPi Camera with OpenCV
  • Technical requirements
  • Installing OpenCV 4.0.0 on Raspberry Pi
    • Uninstalling Wolfram and LibreOffice
    • Updating your RPi
    • Installing the cmake, image, video, and gtk packages
    • Downloading and unzipping OpenCV 4.0 and its contribution repository
    • Installing Python
    • Compiling and installing OpenCV 
    • Linking OpenCV to Python
  • Enabling and connecting the RPi camera to RPi
    • Connecting the RPi camera to RPi
    • Mounting the RPi camera on the robot
  • Capturing images and video with the RPi camera
    • Recording a video with the RPi camera
    • Installing the v4l2 driver
  • Reading an image using OpenCV
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Chapter 7: Building an Object-Following Robot with OpenCV
  • Technical requirements
  • Image processing with OpenCV
    • Important functions in OpenCV 
    • Object recognition using OpenCV
      • Capturing the image
      • Finding the RGB pixel values 
      • The object detection program
    • The OpenCV camera feed program
  • Building an object-following robot
    • Ball tracing using moments
      • Programming logic
      • The ball tracing program 
    • Setting up the object-following robot
      • Object-following robot program
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Chapter 8: Face Detection and Tracking Using the Haar Classifier
  • Technical requirements
  • Face detection using the Haar cascade
    • Basic working of the Viola-Jones algorithm 
    • Face-detection program
  • Detecting the eyes and smile
    • Detecting the eyes
      • Eye detection using haarcascade_eye
      • Eye detection using haarcascade_lefteye_2splits and haarcascade_righteye_2splits 
        • Detecting the left eye
        • Detecting the right eye
    • Recognizing a smile 
      • Programming logic for smile recognition
  • Face-tracking robot
    • Wiring connections 
      • The programming logic
      • Using the white dot on the face triangle to move the robot
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Section 4: Smartphone-Controlled Robot
• Chapter 9: Building a Voice-Controlled Robot
  • Technical requirements
  • An introduction to App Inventor
    • Creating a Talking Pi Android app
      • Designing the app
      • Programming the blocks
        • Main block
        • Intermediate block
        • Final block
      • The Talking Pi program
      • Importing and exporting the .aia file of the app
  • Creating a voice-controlled bot app
    • Designing the app
      • Adding and customizing the components
    • Programming the voice-controlled bot block
  • Pairing the Android smartphone and RPi via Bluetooth
    • Enabling the Bluetooth serial port
  • Developing the Bluetooth program for RPi
    • Socket programming
    • VoiceBot server program
      • Testing the code
  • Summary
  • Questions
• Assessments
• Other Books You May Enjoy
• Index