Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems

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Springer Science & Business Media, 20‏/09‏/2008 - 546 من الصفحات
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . he EyeBot controller and mobile robots have evolved over more than a decade. This book gives an in-depth introduction to embedded systems and autonomous mobile robots, using the EyeBot controller (EyeCon) and the EyeBot mobile robot family as application examples. This book combines teaching and research material and can be used for courses in Embedded Systems as well as in Robotics and Automation. We see labs as an essential teaching and learning method in this area and encourage everybody to reprogram and rediscover the algorithms and systems presented in this book. Although we like simulations for many applications and treat them in quite some depth in several places in this book, we do believe that students should also be exposed to real hardware in both areas, embedded systems and rob- ics. This will deepen the understanding of the subject area and of course create a lot more fun, especially when experimenting with small mobile robots. The original goal for the EyeBot project has been to interface an embedded system to a digital camera sensor (EyeCam), process its images locally in re- time for robot navigation, and display results on a graphics LCD. All of this started at a time before digital cameras came to the market – in fact the EyeBot controller was one of the first “embedded vision systems”.
 

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Robots and Controllers
3
Central Processing Unit
17
Contents
28
Sensors
49
Actuators
73
Control
83
Multitasking
103
Wireless Communication
117
Maze Exploration
271
Map Generation
283
RealTime Image Processing
297
Robot Soccer
317
Neural Networks
331
Genetic Algorithms
347
Genetic Programming
365
BehaviorBased Systems
383

Driving Robots
131
OmniDirectional Robots
147
Balancing Robots
157
Walking Robots
165
Autonomous Planes
185
l3 Autonomous Vessels and Underwater Vehicles
195
Robot Manipulators
205
Simulation Systems
215
Localization and Navigation
241
Evolution of Walking Gaits
403
Automotive Systems
415
Outlook
439
A Programming Tools
443
Hardware Description Table
495
Hardware Specification
511
F Solutions
529
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Bräunl is Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Perth, where he founded and directs the Mobile Robot Lab and is also Director of the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS). Professor Bräunl received a Diploma in Informatics in 1986 from Univ. Kaiserslautern, an MS in Computer Science in 1987 from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a PhD and Habilitation in Informatics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from Univ. Stuttgart. He has worked in the past for BASF and DaimlerChrysler and has founded a company for innovative mobile robot design. Professor Bräunl’s research interests are robotics, vision, graphics, and concurrency. He is author of several research books and textbooks and has developed the EyeBot mobile robot family.

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