Robots, androids, and animatrons

John Iovine

332 pages, parution le 10/12/2001

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Résumé

The time has come for you to bring a robot to life! With the plummeting costs of microcontrollers, quantum improvements and price reductions in other technologies, and the availability of a slew of exciting components in the electronics marketplace, there's never been a better time to explore the world of the nearly human. With the complete directions supplied by popular electronics author John Iovine in this revised Robots, Androids, and Animatrons, you can:

Build your first walking, talking, sensing, thinking robot
Create 12 working robotic projects, using the fully illustrated instructions provided
Get the best available introduction to robotics, motion control, sensors, and neural intelligence
Put together basic modules to build sophisticated 'bots of your own design
Construct a robotic arm that responds to your spoken commands
Build a realistic, functional robotic hand
Apply sensors to detect bumps, walls, inclines , and roads
Give your robot expertise and neural intelligence
Do all of this without programming or assembly language skills

Table of Contents

Introduction
An Overview ofState-of-the-Art Robots
Robotic Locomotion
Motors and Power Controllers
All Types of Sensors, Tilt, Bump, Road and Wall Detection, Light, Speech and Sound Recognition (and Even Odor Detectors Like Smoke and Carbon Monoxide)
Robotic Intelligence (Neural-Type) Using Simple Neural Networks (Insect Intelligence)
Now We're Going to Make a Lifelike Android Hand
A Computer-Controlled Robotic Insect Programmed in BASIC
Telepresence Robots (How to Really "Get Inside" Your Robot) with Actual Arcade and Virtual Reality Applications
A Computer-Controlled Robotic Arm. Animated Robots and Androids (Talking and Moving "People")
Real-World Robotic Applications

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	John Iovine
Parution	10/12/2001
Nb. de pages	332
Format	18,5 x 23,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	704g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071376839
ISBN13	978-0-07-137683-9