Robot Programming: A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics

by Joe Jones, Daniel Roth

Overview

* Teaches the concepts of behavior-based programming through text, programming examples, and a unique online simulator robot

* Explains how to design new behaviors by manipulating old ones and adjusting programming

* Does not assume reader familiarity with robotics or programming languages

* Includes a section on designing your own behavior-based system from scratch

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071708500
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/02/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	293
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Joe Jones (Acton, MA) is a veteran roboticist, currently employed by iRobot. He is the co-author of Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, as well as numerous articles in the field of robotics. He is one of the inventors of the Roomba(R) Robotic FloorVac, the first widely adopted consumer robot.Daniel Roth (Cambridge, MA) is a master's degree candidate in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in autonomous robot navigation.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Autonomous Mobile Robots Chapter 2: Control Systems Chapter 3: Behaviors Chapter 4: Arbitration Chapter 5: Programming Chapter 6: Decomposition Chapter 7: Physical Interfaces Chapter 8: Implementation Chapter 9: Future Robots APPENDIX A: MATHEMATICS OF DIFFERENTIAL DRIVE APPENDIX B: BSim APPENDIX C: FREQUENTLY USED FUNCTIONS APPENDIX D: PSEUDOCODE APPENDIX E: BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Editorial Reviews

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.

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

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.

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