The robot builder's cookbook / Owen Bishop.

Includes index.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Making a Robot -- What sort? -- Getting down to detail -- Controlling the robot -- Programming a PIC -- Simulating the PIC -- Part 1 Robot Behaviour -- Activities of mobile robots -- Activities of gantry robots -- Feedback -- Random activity -- Subsumption -- Input and output requirements -- Distributed processing -- Part 2 Robot Mechanics -- Materials -- Fixings -- Tools -- Planning a mobile robot body -- Wheels -- Motors -- Solenoids -- Construction kits -- Suppliers -- Part 3 Robot Electronics -- Materials -- Tools -- Components -- Power supplies -- The controller circuit -- Input circuits -- Output circuits -- Radio -- Testing the circuit -- Suppliers -- Part 4 PICs in Control -- Programming a PIC -- The PIC16F690 -- Special functions -- Comparators -- AD converters -- Serial receiver/transmitter -- Data memory -- The PIR1 and PIR2 registers -- The INTCON register -- Other PICs -- Part 5 PIC Programming -- Program segments -- Inputs and outputs -- Mode select routine -- Branching instructions -- Steering a mobile robot -- Detecting objects -- Avoiding objects -- Musical tones -- Look-up tables -- Using two processors -- Mathematical operations -- Random numbers -- Calibrating the system -- Software replaces hardware -- Part 6 Projects -- 6.1 The Scooter -- 6.2 The Android -- 6.3 A robotic toy -- 6.4 The Quester -- 6.5 The Gantry -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Last Page.

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Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics, electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used by students and design engineers worldwide. This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined into a wide range of fascinating robots.? Full step-by-step instructions for 5 complete self-build robots? Introduces key techniques in electronics, programming and construction - for robust robots that work first time? Illustrations, close-up photographs and a lively, readable text make this a fun and informative guide for novice and experienced robot builders.

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