Robot Programming: A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics (ELECTRONICS) - Softcover

Jones, Joseph L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071427783 ISBN 13: 9780071427784

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Tab, 2004

Synopsis

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MASTER ROBOT PROGRAMMING ITH YOUR OWN FREE VIRTUAL 'BOT!

This ingenious book/Web site partnership teaches the skills you need to program a robot -- and gives you a virtual robot waiting online to perform your commands and test your programming expertise. You don't need to know either robotics or programming to get started!

Using an intuitive method, Robot Programming deconstructs robot control into simple and distinct behaviors that are easy to program and debug for inexpensive microcontrollers with little memory. Once you’ve mastered programming your online 'bot, you can easily adapt your programs for use in physical robots.

Though Robot Programming smoothes the path to acquiring skills in this arcane art, it does not reduce it to simplistics. With this resource, you can open the door to all the complexity, sophistication, versatility, and robustness that it is possible for robot behavior to exhibit.

WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR ROBOT TO DO?
Robot Programming's hands-on approach to behavior-based robotics--
* Teaches you intuitively, with a system that integrates explanation, code examples, and exercises using an online robot simulator
* Demonstrates programming for mobile robots
* Gives you the tools to combine sensors with robot skills
* Shows you how to develop new robot behaviors by manipulating old ones and adjusting programming parameters
* Provides examples of programming for object seeking, object avoidance, decision-making, and much more
* Leads you to advanced strategies for designing your own behavior-based systems from scratch
* Introduces the history and theory behind behavior-based programming
* Requires no background in either programming or robotics

About this title

Review:

Jones, one of the inventors of the first widely adopted consumer robot, introduces the history and theory behind behavior-based programming, teaches skills needed for programming a robot, and provides readers with a virtual robot on a web site to test programming expertise. Using. an intuitive method, he deconstructs robot control into simple behaviors that are easy to program and debug for inexpensive microcontrollers with little memory. No background is required in programming or robotics..

From the Publisher:

Doesn't assume any familiarity with robotics or programming languages

Teaches the concepts of behavior-based programming through text, programming examples, and exercises that are fully integrated with the simulator (and later with the robot)

Touches on the history and theoretical underpinnings of behavior-based robots

Introduces the idea of "emergent behavior," and explains how to design new behaviors by manipulating old ones and adjusting programming parameters

Includes an advanced section that shows how readers can design their own behavior-based systems from scratch

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Tab
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0071427783
• ISBN 13: 9780071427784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320