Amphibionics : Build Your Own Biologically Inspired
Reptilian Robot - $19.95
 By
Karl Williams
This work provides the hobbyist with detailed
mechanical, electronic, and PIC® microcontroller knowledge needed to build
and program a snake, frog, turtle, and alligator robots. It focuses on the
construction of each robot in detail, and then explores the world of
slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots, and the artificial
intelligence needed with these platforms.
Includes a chapter on PICBASIC PRO™ Compiler, EPIC™
Programmer, and MicroCode Studio. Program examples throughout the
book are written for the PICBASIC PRO Compiler.
From the Back Cover:
ROBOTIC EVOLUTION HAS BEGUN! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO
JOIN THE REVOLUTION
If you're a robotics hobbyist with a flair for creativity, here's your
opportunity to join the revolution and advance robotic evolution. Amphibionics:
Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Reptilian Robot leads you
step-by-step through four amazing projects which, when completed, will
leave you as master of a gang of robot reptiles that jump, slither, walk,
swim, and respond to their environment!
Packed with insight and a wealth of informative illustrations, Amphibionics
show you how to build your own snake, frog, crocodile, and turtle. It
focuses on the construction of each robot in detail, and then explores the
world of slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots -- along with
the artificial intelligence needed to make these movements happen. The
book also:
- Tells you all you need for mechanical construction, programming,
locomotion, remote control, and customization
- Teaches you corresponding electronics, PIC® programming, artificial
intelligence, software, motor control, and wireless data linking.
- Instructs you to build your own customizable remote control using
inexpensive transmitter and receiver modules
- Helps you add your own touches, through a special section that shows
you how to evolve each robot further and make it unique
- And much, much, more!
With each project amazingly inexpensive to complete, you're bound to
wind up with your own brood of reptilian robots in no time!
INSIDE:
- How amphibians achieve locomotion
- Stages of construction
- Theory and construction of various sensors
- A study of the PIC microcontroller
- Programming
- Artificial intelligence experiments
- Adding an infrared proximity sensor
- Interfacing RF transmitter and receiver modules for remote
control and data linking
- DC motor control made easy
- Analog to digital converters and applications
- Taking it further
362 pages |
