Dedication
by Tracey Hughes, Cameron Hughes
Robot Programming: A Guide to Controlling Autonomous Robots
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction: Robot Boot Camp
- 1. What Is a Robot Anyway?
- The Seven Criteria of Defining a Robot
- Criterion #1: Sensing the Environment
- Criterion #2: Programmable Actions and Behavior
- Criterion #3: Change, Interact with, or Operate on Environment
- Criterion #4: Power Source Required
- Criterion #5: A Language Suitable for Representing Instructions and Data
- Criterion #6: Autonomy Without External Intervention
- Criterion #7: A Nonliving Machine
- Robot Categories
- What Is a Sensor?
- What Is an Actuator?
- What Is an End-Effector?
- What Is a Controller?
- What Scenario Is the Robot In?
- Giving the Robot Instructions
- The Seven Criteria of Defining a Robot
- Code Snippets
- 2. Robot Vocabularies
- 3. RSVP: Robot Scenario Visual Planning
- 4. Checking the Actual Capabilities of Your Robot
- 5. A Close Look at Sensors
- What Do Sensors Sense?
- Analog and Digital Sensors
- Reading Analog and Digital Signals
- The Output of a Sensor
- Where Readings Are Stored
- Active and Passive Sensors
- Sensor Interfacing with Microcontrollers
- Attributes of Sensors
- Range and Resolution
- Precision and Accuracy
- Linearity
- Sensor Calibration
- Problems with Sensors
- End User Calibration Process
- Calibration Methods
- What’s Ahead?
- What Do Sensors Sense?
- 6. Programming the Robot’s Sensors
- 7. Programming Motors and Servos
- 8. Getting Started with Autonomy: Building Your Robot’s Softbot Counterpart
- 9. Robot SPACES
- 10. An Autonomous Robot Needs STORIES
- 11. Putting It All Together: How Midamba Programmed His First Autonomous Robot
- Midamba’s Initial Scenario
- Midamba Becomes a Robot Programmer Overnight!
- Step 1. Robots in the Warehouse Scenario
- Step 2. The Robot’s Vocabulary and ROLL Model for Facility Scenario #1
- Step 3. RSVP for Facility Scenario #1
- Visual Layouts of a Robot POV Diagram
- Midamba’s Facility Scenario #1 (Refined)
- Graphical Flowchart Component of the RSVP
- State Diagram Component of the RSVP
- Midamba’s STORIES for Robot Unit1 and Unit2
- Endnote
- Midamba’s Initial Scenario
- 12. Open Source SARAA Robots for All!
- A. BURT’s Gotchas
- Index
Dedication
We dedicate this book to all those open source robot maker spaces that in spite of humble and meager resources continue to toil against the improbable and do amazing things with robots.
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