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Amphibionics : Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Reptilian Robot
 
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By Karl Williams

This work provides the hobbyist with detailed mechanical, electronic, and PIC microcontroller knowledge needed to build and program a snake, frog, turtle, and alligator robots. It focuses on the construction of each robot in detail, and then explores the world of slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots, and the artificial intelligence needed with these platforms.

Includes a chapter on PICBASIC PRO Compiler, EPIC Programmer, and MicroCode Studio.  Program examples throughout the book are written for the PICBASIC PRO Compiler.

From the Back Cover:
ROBOTIC EVOLUTION HAS BEGUN! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO JOIN THE REVOLUTION

If you're a robotics hobbyist with a flair for creativity, here's your opportunity to join the revolution and advance robotic evolution. Amphibionics: Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Reptilian Robot leads you step-by-step through four amazing projects which, when completed, will leave you as master of a gang of robot reptiles that jump, slither, walk, swim, and respond to their environment!

Packed with insight and a wealth of informative illustrations, Amphibionics show you how to build your own snake, frog, crocodile, and turtle. It focuses on the construction of each robot in detail, and then explores the world of slithering, jumping, swimming, and walking robots -- along with the artificial intelligence needed to make these movements happen. The book also:

  • Tells you all you need for mechanical construction, programming, locomotion, remote control, and customization
  • Teaches you corresponding electronics, PIC programming, artificial intelligence, software, motor control, and wireless data linking.
  • Instructs you to build your own customizable remote control using inexpensive transmitter and receiver modules
  • Helps you add your own touches, through a special section that shows you how to evolve each robot further and make it unique
  • And much, much, more!

With each project amazingly inexpensive to complete, you're bound to wind up with your own brood of reptilian robots in no time!

INSIDE:

  • How amphibians achieve locomotion
  • Stages of construction
  • Theory and construction of various sensors
  • A study of the PIC microcontroller
  • Programming
  • Artificial intelligence experiments
  • Adding an infrared proximity sensor
  • Interfacing RF transmitter and receiver modules for remote control and data linking
  • DC motor control made easy
  • Analog to digital converters and applications
  • Taking it further

362 pages



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