Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials : Harness the Power of Raspberry Pi with Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) to Create an Amazing Walking Robot

The Raspberry Pi B2 is an inexpensive embedded processor that provides a high-performance Linux development environment. This book is a fast-paced guide that will show you how to use Raspberry Pi technology to build a biped robot that can interact with its environment. We start off by explaining the basics of getting your Raspberry Pi up and running, ready to be mounted on your biped platform. After this, you will be introduced to the art of constructing a mechanism for the biped platform. You will then learn to develop a vision system for your robot, as well as a means by which you can control and monitor it. At the end of this book, you will have learned enough to build a complex biped robot that can walk, turn, find its way, and "see" its environment.

About This Book

• Learn how to design and deploy an OpenStack private cloud using automation tools and best practices
• Gain valuable insight into OpenStack components and new services
• Explore the opportunities to build a scalable OpenStack infrastructure with this comprehensive guide

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for system administrators, cloud engineers, and system architects who want to deploy a cloud based on OpenStack in a mid- to large-sized IT infrastructure. If you have a fundamental understanding of cloud computing and OpenStack and want to expand your knowledge, then this book is an excellent checkpoint to move forward.

What You Will Learn

• Explore the main architecture design of OpenStack components, core-by-core services, and how they work together
• Learn how to distribute OpenStack services among cluster setup
• Compare different storage solutions and driver extensions
• Design different high availability scenarios and how to plan for a no Single Point Of Failure environment
• Set up a multinode environment in production using orchestration tools
• Boost OpenStack performance with advanced configuration
• Establish a distributed monitoring solution and keep track of resource consumption

In Detail

This comprehensive guide will help you to choose the right practical option and make strategic decisions about the OpenStack cloud environment to fit your infrastructure in production.

At the start, this book will explain the OpenStack core architecture. You will soon be shown how to create your own OpenStack private cloud.

Next, you will move on to cover the key security layer and network troubleshooting skills, along with some advanced networking features. Finally, you will gain experience of centralizing and logging OpenStack. The book will show you how to carry out performance tuning based on OpenStack service logs.

By the end of this book, you will be ready to take steps to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud with the latest open source technologies.

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWhat you will learnBuild a basic biped platform, a servobased robot that can walkAdd Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) to your robot and make it free to move forward/backward, up/down, and left/rightAdd vision through a webcam so that the biped can'see'the world around itImplement path planning so that the biped can move around autonomouslyAdd wireless communication so that you can see what the robot is seeing and control the robot from a distanceWho this book is forIf you are a programmer with an interest in building advanced robotics projects using inexpensive hardware and open source software, then this book is for you. Some experience with computer programming and implementing simple mechanical systems is required. Harness the power of Raspberry Pi with Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) to create an amazing walking robot.