1st Edition

Practical and Experimental Robotics

By Ferat Sahin, Pushkin Kachroo Copyright 2008
464 Pages 514 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

464 Pages 514 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Taking a completely hands-on approach, using cheap and easily available robotics kits, Practical and Experimental Robotics provides a detailed exploration of the construction, theory, and experiments for different types of robots. With topics ranging from basic stamp microcontrollers to biped and propeller based robots, the text contains laboratory experiments, examples with solutions, and case... Read more
FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS AND MECHANICS
Fundamentals of Electronics
Practical Electronic Circuits
Fundamentals of Machines and Mechanisms
Mechanisms

BASIC STAMP MICROCONTROLLER
Different Versions of BASIC Stamp
Development Boards for BS2e
BASIC Stamp Editor
PBASIC Programming Fundamentals

PC INTERFACING
Parallel Port Interfacing
Serial Port Interfacing
USB Interfacing

ROBOTIC ARM
Construction and Mechanics
Electrical Control
Parallel Port Interface Circuit Using Relays
USB Interface Using Relays
Parallel Port Interface Circuit Using Transistors

ROBOTIC ARM CONTROL
Programmed Tasks
Automatic Control Using a Camera
Robotic Kinematics
Dynamics and Control
Some Experiments
Control of a Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Arm Robot
Examples and MATLAB Programs

DIFFERENTIAL DRIVE ROBOT
Construction and Mechanics
Robot Speed Control
Robot Kinematics

FOUR WHEEL DRIVE ROBOT
Construction and Mechanics
Electrical Control

HEXAPOD ROBOT
Construction and Mechanics
Electrical Control

BIPED ROBOTS
Bigfoot: The Walker
The Lynxmotion Biped
The Robosapien Biped

PROPELLER BASED ROBOTS
Wings
Propellers
Robotic Planes
Robotic Helicopter
Robotic Boats
Robotic Submarines

Biography

Ferat Sahin, Pushkin Kachroo