Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, Second Edition

Revised and updated, the second edition includes several new chapters with projects and applications. 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.

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.

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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)