Mobile Robotic Car Design

by Pushkin Kachroo and Patricia Mellodge

Provides illustrated plans and instructions for building a 1:10-scale car robot. Written by robotics experts, this book gives you a solid background in electrical and mechanical theory, and the design... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007143870X
• ISBN13: 9780071438704
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Best analisys I've seen on a robotics book.

Hello. This book is one of the best I've seen and read so far. I have several books on robot building (Gordon, Miles, Cook, Williams, Jones, Groover, Clark, Iovine, etc) and this book has captured every aspect that I was looking for. The author explains the matter step by step througly thus giving the reader the sense that HE KNOWS what he's talking about (very important). The other book similar to this one is "INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS: TECHNOLOGY, PROGRAMMING, AND APPLICATIONS", though, a bit old (1986), has mathematical analisys and good examples overall. But this book (Mobile Robotic Car Design) excels on the analisys part. And best of all, it introduces the reader to mathematical information that one CAN understand, using MATLAB. The book is divided in two parts: Part 1 Hardware Implementation.- This is dedicated on how to make the robotic car, the hardware,programming (PIC and DSP) and several techinques that one would see on other robo building books. Part 2 Theory of mobile robots.- This is where the interesting part begins. The math and how it can be used in our favor. The book is worth the money IF you're into every detail of design. It has good information if you're only triying to make a robot but it would definitely be TOO MUCH for many (the robot DNA series would do). This book is recommended for engineers and hobbyist as stated on a review, but mostly for engineers. On another note: Jones book, "Robot programming", is a good book for people that already have a robotic car, it's a good companion for this book.

Mobile Robotic Car Design Great for Hobbyists and Engineers

While reading the book, I found it to be understandable and easy to follow. The diagrams and step-by-step process was very helpful in understanding the Mobile Robotic Car Design. I would highly recommend this book to people like hobbyists and engineers who would like a well designed platform to test their vehicle control experiments, obstacle avoidance, or anything else your imagination can come up with.