Hands-On Robotics with Arduino

Curious about controlling a Robot with a smartphone,  Learn the basic concept and programming required to design a fully functional Arduino Robot. For this course, you will need the simplest but the most powerful and advanced Micro-Controller board called the Arduino UNO and Bluetooth along with some basic electronics components.

The exciting part is the specially designed PSC robotics kit for participants which will not only help them to learn about microcontrollers and sensors but will also provide greater insight into basic Mechanical, Electronics, and coding components and their integration into robotics.

Who this course is for:

• Students who are interested in learning the basics of Robotics
• Arduino Lovers who want to learn more than Arduino basics
• Students from Mechanical, Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science, and Robotics background are perfectly ideal for this course

When you subscribe this course, you will get free PSC DIY robotic kit

Duration

6 hours program

Requirements

• No necessary requirement, Basic knowledge of Electronics will be great advantage

Fundamentals of Robotics

Robotics is fundamentally a branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots. It is a powerful tool to understand the basic concepts of Computer Science, Mechanical engineering, and Electronics engineering. In this Arduino robot course will use a simplified version of C++ language for programming our Robot using the Arduino IDE.

Course Content and Overview

This course is designed for students interested in controlling an Arduino Robot with Android Smartphone. basic coding experience is required; Learn Arduino in Urdu for Free  all you need is an Arduino, Bluetooth, some hardware and electronics components for building the Robot. We will start from basics of Arduino programming and then move to higher topics.

Basics of Arduino

Learn Arduino in Urdu and understand the basics of Arduino and then we will look at Arduino installation & setting up Arduino with your Computer or Laptop

Construction of Robot

After understanding the basics of Arduino next we will construct our Arduino Robot. All the components required for building this Robot are mentioned in Section 2

Time Control Robot

In the Time Control Robot section you will first understand the working of Motors Driver and how to control 2 motors using a single motor driver.

We will then write an Arduino program so that the Robot moves in the following direction for a specific period

• Forward
• Backward
• Axial Left
• Axial Right
• Radial Right
• Radial Left
• Stop

Serial Communication

Serial Communication is essential for sending and receiving data between Electronic hardware devices. We will use Serial Communication to control Led’s, the Potentiometer sensor and the Arduino Robot.

In this section, you will learn to read analog values from sensors and display it on the Serial Monitor. You will also write (send data) values from PC to Arduino.

Android Programming

Android OS has taken the world by storm after its inception nearly 10 years back. One of the major benefits of owning an Android smartphone is the ability to use it as a Remote Control for controlling Robots and other electronic devices.

In this course we will design 5 Android Applications using a tool called AppInventor2. AppInventor2 is a Graphical Programming Software using which even a non programmer can design amazing Android apps in a matter of minutes.

Controlling Arduino Robot using Android Smartphone

We will create 3 android applications for controlling the Arduino and each application works in different manner

SmartBot

In the Smartbot android app we will create 5 buttons (Forward, Backward, Left, Right and Stop). When the user clicks on any of the button the Robot will move in that particular direction.

AcceleroControl Robot

In the AcceleroControl Robot android app, we will use the accelerometer sensor from the android smartphone to control the Robot. So when the user tilts the robot in forward direction it will will move forward, when the Smartphone is kept flat the Robot will Stop. Similarly by pointing the smartphone in direction you can control the direction of the Arduino Robot.

Object Avoider Robot

Object avoider robot or Maze solver robot is similar to object repeller robot, but in certain conditions, it will simply avoid the object instead of moving away from it.

Features

• 6 hours of on-demand video
• 1 article
• downloadable resources
• Full lifetime access
• Certificate of completion

Target audiences

• Students who are interested in learning the basics of Robotics
• Arduino Lovers who want to learn more than Arduino basics
• Students from Mechanical, Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science, and Robotics background are perfectly ideal for this course

Requirements

PSC Robotic kit

No requirement, Basic knowledge of Electronics will be a great advantage