Mobile Robots : Inspiration to Implementation, Second Edition

Revised and updated, the second edition includes several new chapters with projects and applications. Robotics has made quantum leaps since the first publication of Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation. With the publication of the second edition, the authors keep pace with the ever-growing and rapidly expanding field of robotics. The new edition reflects technological developments and includes programs and activities for robot enthusiasts. Using photographs, illustrations, and informative text, Mobile Robots guides the reader through the step-by-step process of constructing two different and inexpensive yet fully functional robots. Booknews Presents the step-by-step process of constructing two different, inexpensive, and fully functional robots with a varying range of abilities. Along the way, concepts are introduced to allow the reader to later create her or his own robot design. All aspects of design are discussed, including computational hardware, designing and prototyping, sensors, mechanics, motors, power, robot programming, and unsolved problems. Appendices list suppliers, trade magazines, data books, and schematics. Many illustrations and photographs, two pages in color. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) This second edition reflects technological developments and includes programs and activities for robot enthusiasts. Step-by-step instructions take the reader through the process of constructing the two different and inexpensive yet fully functional robots. The design and construction of mobile robots is as much an art as a sience. The intenst of «Mobile Robots: Inspiraton to Implemenation» is to explain the skills involved in a manner amenable to as briad an audience as possible. This book widely disseminates knowledge of how to design and build robots, and explains the skills involved in a manner amenable to as broad an audience as possible. It helps the readers to overcome the inertia of getting started, whether it be in a basement workshop or in a university laboratory. Using photographs, illustrations, and informative text, this book guides the reader through the step-by-step process of contructing two different and inexpensive yet fully functional robots