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Fundamentals
of Robotics: Linking Perception to Action
Tomorrow's robots, which includes the humanoid robot, can perform
task like tutoring children, working as tour guides, driving humans to and
from work, do the family shopping etc. Tomorrow's robots will enhance
lives in ways we never dreamed possible. No time to attend the decisive
meeting on Asian strategy? Let your robot go for you and make the
decisions. Not feeling well enough to go to the clinic? Let Dr Robot come
to you, make a diagnosis, and get you the necessary medicine for
treatment. No time to coach the soccer team this week? Let the robot do it
for you.
Ming Xie
Format: Hardcover, 720pp
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: June 2003 |
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PDA
Robotics: Using Your Personal Digital Assistant to Control Your Robot
The virtual chasm between PDAs and robots has been spanned, with PDA
Robotics: Using Your Personal Digital Assistant to Control Your Robot,
an easy-to-read guide to integrating these two pieces of technology into a
single, remote-controlled powerhouse. Written in easy-to-understand
language by a renowned software designer and robotics expert, this unique
resource reveals innovative concepts and designs, helping you to build
your own PDA-controlled robot from the ground up.
Douglas H. Williams
Format: Paperback, 250pp
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: June 2003 |
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Building
Bots: Designing and Building Warrior Robots
This is the definitive guide to designing and building warrior
robots like those seen on BattleBots, Robotica, and Robot Wars. It walks
robot enthusiasts of all ages step-by-step through the design and building
process, enabling them to create any number of customized warrior robots.
With a strong emphasis on safety, chapters include designing a robot,
choosing materials, radio control systems, electric motors, robot
batteries, motor speed controllers, gasoline engines, and drive trains.
Clear instructions are accompanied by photos, line drawings, and detailed
diagrams throughout. For inspiration, a color section showcases a variety
of glorious fighting machines along with their stats. Profiles of
well-known designers and builders also enliven the text.
William Gurstelle
Format: Paperback, 256pp
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: December 2002 |
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Build Your
Own Programmable Remote-Controlled Sumo-Bot
This "Next Generation" robot from McGraw-Hill features:
The power of the Basic Stamp 2, A tracked drive for manuverability over
all types of terrain, "Flipping Ability" to put the competition
on its back, A steel frame that encourages customization, Mechanical
features rugged enough to absorb the shock of combat, AA battery powered
to run longer, Tethered -- responds to both wireless and wired remote
control. Here’s a fun and affordable way for hobbyists to take their
robot building skills to the next level and if they wish, be part of the
hottest new craze in amateur robotics: Sumo competition.
Myke Predko, Ben Wirz
Format: Other Format, 214pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: November 2002
Edition Desc: KIT |
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Insectronics:
Build Your Own Six-Legged Walking Robot
This complete project book delivers all the step-by-step plans you
need to construct your own six-legged insect-like robot that walks and
actually responds to its environment. Using inexpensive off-the-shelf
parts hobbyists can “build a better bug” and at the same time have
loads of fun honing their knowledge of mechanical construction,
programming, microcontroller use, and artificial intelligence.
Karl Williams
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 288pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
Published: November 2002 |
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JunkBots,
Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels: Building Simple Robots With BEAM
Technology
Robotics should be challenging enough to be fun but easy and cheap
enough for mere mortals. You shouldn’t need your own machine shop or a
posse of eager graduate students ready to serve your every whim.
Fortunately, “easy” and “cheap” won’t prevent you from building
some very cool robots. Nature specializes in using available materials and
appropriate technology - and in generating designs of uncanny elegance.The
cheap, easy approach to robotics is best exemplified by Mark Tilden’s
BEAM Technology. BEAM robots do great stuff despite having the most
minimal brains imaginable. They use whatever you’ve got hanging around.
They run endlessly on solar power, yet they’re smart enough not to run
under the bed and just stay there to die.
David Hrynkiw, Mark Tilden
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 400pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: October 2002 |
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Robot Sumo:
The Official Guide
Robot sumo contests are now being held worldwide, with several
thousand robots busily trying to shove each other outside the ring with
ever-greater aplomb. Since there are relatively few constraints on sumo
robot design, this sport brings out the creativity in a robotics community
that’s already intensely creative. Until now, if you wanted to get
involved, you had to learn by trial and error, by watching and losing.
Now, there’s a shortcut -- Robot Sumo: The Official Guide by Pete
Miles.
Pete Miles
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 408pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: October 2002 |
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Combat
Robots Complete
Combat Robots Complete includes three hands-on projects, each with
very specific step-by-step instructions: one for a very small robot (1
lb.), another for a heavyweight, and a third for a medium-size specimen.
He also supplies highly informative appendices, including dos and don'ts
in robot building, conversion factors, information tables, a list of web
sites, further reading, FAQs, and a very nice glossary, among others.
Finally, the book includes a CD-ROM that contains additional robot designs
in Rhino 3D Models; links to competitors' team sites; videos and photos of
robots in competition; printable information tables; links to software
design sites; and many other useful resources.
Chris Hannold
Format: Other Format, 288pp
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: September 2002 |
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Building
Robot Drive Trains
Motion is where it's at in the robot world. In fact, the authors of
this book claim that if it doesn't move, it isn't a robot. Dennis Clark
and Michael Owings deliver all the goods on locomotion -- the capability
of a robot to move from place to place. Best of all, they make it fun to
learn and instill confidence in the novice. Building Robot Drive
Trains has been logically planned out and very well executed. The
authors begin with locomotion (motor) basics and proceed in a well mapped
out approach.
Dennis Clark, Michael Owings
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 400pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: September 2002 |
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Programming
Robot Controllers
In this innovative addition to the Robot DNA Series, author Myke
Predko tells you everything you need for your robot to perform up to
specification and expectation -- and for you to fully understand how robot
controllers are programmed using the versatile Microchip PICmicro
PIC16F627. All you need to get started are inexpensive off-the-shelf parts
and the "C" programming language compiler included on the
CD-ROM.
Myke Predko
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 275pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: September 2002
Edition Desc: Book & CD-ROM |
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PIC
Robotics: A Beginner's Guide to Robotics Projects Using the PICMicro
Combines the power of the PICMicro MCU with amateur robotics.
Includes illustrated plans for 11 robots each with a PICMicro
"brain". Provides complete parts lists for all projects,
Coverage of the PIC Basic Computer makes programming a snap.
John Iovine
Format: Paperback, 252pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: August 2002 |
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Robot
Builder's Sourcebook
Gordon McComb's book features an alphabetical source listing based
on type of tool or information sought, along with step-by-step,
easy-to-read instructions on how to use the source listings. For example,
if you want to locate a resource for microcontrollers or ultrasonic
sensors, you can look them up quickly by section. In addition, many
chapters include pithy, well-written sidebars on crucial topics, such as:
"Help -- My Remote Control Won't Work"; "Material for Robot
Bodies"; or "Care and Feeding of the Combot."
Gordon McComb
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 711pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: August 2002 |
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Programming
Lego Mindstorms with Java with CD-ROM
The LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System has been called
"the most creative play system ever developed." This book
unleashes the full power of the RCX and the tools, bricks, and components
that make up LEGO Mindstorms. Programming LEGO Mindstorms with Java
is as much about robotics programming as it is about Java programming.
This book is for all levels of Mindstorms users, from hobbyists to the
serious Mindstorms aficionados. This book is also appropriate for a
variety of programming levels; those with only a modicum of Java knowledge
as well as those at an advanced level will find much to learn within these
pages.
Guilio Ferrari, Jurgen Stuber, Andy Gombos
Format: Paperback, 464pp.
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Published: May 2002
Edition Desc: Book & CD-ROM |
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BattleBots:
The Official Guide
The fully authorized guide to the world's most destructive sport-as
seen on TV. Robotic combat has served to inspire countless movies, novels,
comic books, and daydreams. In the last decade or so it has become a
reality, thanks in large part to BattleBots, the world's most popular
robot fighting tournament and one of the highest-rated shows on cable TV.
From the first official BattleBots competition in 1999 to its current 4th
successful season on Comedy Central, BattleBots has become an obsession
for people of all ages and from all walks of life.
Mark Clarkson
Format: Paperback, 227pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: May 2002 |
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Build A
Remote-Controlled Robot
Here are all the step-by-step,heavily illustrated plans you need to
build a full-sized,remote-controlled Questor robot*without any advanced
electronic or programming skills. It's the perfect way to jump into the
fascinating world of robotics and be part of all the excitement!
David R. Shircliff
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 112pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: April 2002 |
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Build Your
Own Combat Robot
Building serious combat robots is brainwork and handwork. Using tons
of photos and diagrams, Pete Miles and Tom Carroll cover all of it, from
axles and bearings to computer processors, weapons systems to strategy.
They get you up to speed with the jargon, culture, evolution, and fun of
combat robotics, then teach you about the materials, techniques, and ideas
that have made combat robotics the glorious sport it is today. For
example, how are you going to make your robot move? Legs? Treads? Wheels?
Whatever you choose, remember that the field of combat "is not
exactly like Grandma's living room floor."
Pete Miles, Tom W. Carroll
Format: Paperback, 381pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: March 2002 |
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Robot
Building for Beginners
Learning Robotics by Yourself Isn't Easy. It helps when
encouragement comes from someone who's been there. Not only does Robot
Building for Beginners assist you in understanding the component parts
of robot development, but it also prepares you with techniques to learn
new discoveries on your own. Author David Cook begins with the anatomy of
a homemade robot and gives you the best advice on how to proceed
successfully. General sources for tools and parts are provided in a
consolidated list, and specific parts are recommended throughout the book.
Also, you'll learn basic safety precautions and essential numbering and
measuring systems.
David Cook
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 600pp.
Publisher: APress L. P.
Published: January 2002 |
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How to
Build a Robot
How to Build a Robot is a guide to building a walking, talking,
thinking robot. Along the way you will find out about robots in fact and
fiction, from R2D2 and C3PO to real robots a that can smell, learn, fly,
and beat humans at chess.
Clive Gifford, Tim Benton
Format:Hardcover, 96pp.
Publisher: Scholastic Library Publishing
Published: January 2002 |
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Robot
Builder's Bonanza
The world is full of hobbyists who got into robotics after reading
Gordon McComb's Robot Builders Bonanza. But that book came out 14 years
ago. A lot's happened since then -- new servo motor technology, powerful
new microcontrollers, and the Lego Mindstorms phenomenon, to name just a
few highlights. Now, McComb has delivered a thoroughly updated Second
Edition -- and it might keep you busy for the next 14 years. A solid 720
pages, this new edition includes 99 do-it-yourself robotics projects: 11
complete robots in all. You'll learn how to build robots that walk, see,
feel, talk, listen, and "think." Every project is thoroughly
illustrated and comes with a parts list (McComb also tells you where you
can get these parts).
Gordon McComb
Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 720pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Published: September 2000
Edition Desc: 2ND |
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