Advanced Robot Systems

By Mark J. Robillard

Book Overview

This book follows on from where Mark Robillard's earlier book, "Microprocessor Based Robotics" left off and considers robot systems as distinct from robot con- struction. This usefully allows the author to leave all the mechanical stuff to somebody else and concentrate on the design of electronic systems for hypothetical robot devices, including a robot truck for a factory, a security robot and a mail delivery robot for offices. Rotbillard's style, common in quite a few American books, is to select an inte- grated circuit, explain how it works and then go on to consider how it might be used in a particular application. He describes some very useful IC's, that (were they easily available in the UK) would make construction of electronics systems for robot control Much easier. Nevertheless, the systems he describes provide much food for thought with many circuit diagrams for various sensor circuits, such as a line follower and lots of schematic diagrams of microcomputer systems. This is a book on robot systems, so software to run the electronics is also considered, mainly in the form of flow diagrams and tables of instructions for the various IC's discussed. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672221667
• ISBN13: 9780672221668
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Sams Technical Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.