Raspberry Pi Robot

This is a NodeJS and Python modular robot for the Raspberry PI.

Various forms of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be utilised in this project.

Work-in-Progress

The plan is to allow various configurations and features that can be enabled based on the available hardware. Below are some examples of the intended functionality.

Mobility support:

• Differential wheeled robot (2-wheels)
• Steering motion (RWD, FWD, AWD, etc)
• Quadcopter (4 rotors) - if I find time, one can dream.

Sensory support:

• Object detection (camera + machine learning)
• Distance sensing (using HC-SR04)

Feature support:

• Follow/avoid object
• Auto-navigation

Connectivity support:

• WiFi (TCP & UDP)
• WiFi Direct
• Bluetooth
• Radio

Control:

• Android app

Setup

The NodeJS/TypeScript portion can be initialised using:

npm i

The Python portion currently requires manual setup, rather than a virtual environment:

pip3 install opencv-python-headless

A python Pipfile (install configuration) is planned, instead of the manual setup. OpenCV runs faster when compiled from source, however this does not seamlessly work with a Pipfile or requirements.txt. To work around this we can use pre-compiled versions of OpenCV available through pip, shown in the above command. Those offer good enough performance.