In this guide to controlling autonomous robots, Cameron and Tracey Hughes take the reader on an adventure through the eyes of Midamba, a lad who has been stranded on a desert island and must find a way to program robots to help him escape. In this guide, you are presented with practical approaches and techniques to program robot sensors, motors, and translate your ideas into tasks a robot can execute autonomously.

These techniques can be used on robot microcontrollers such as ARM9 and ARM7, and robot platforms including the low-cost Arduino platforms, LEGO Mindstorms EV3, NXT, and Wowee RS Media Robot. 

Authors: Cameron and Tracey Hughes
Publisher: Que
Date: May 2016
Pages: 400
ISBN: 978-0789755001
Print: 0789755009
KIndle: B01F06BBM4
Level: Intermediate
Category: Hardware platforms

Topics covered include:

• Programming robot sensors and motors
• Programmig a robot arm to perform a task
• Describing the robot’s tasks and environments in a way that a robot can process using robot S.T.O.R.I.E.S.
• Developing a R.S.V.P. (Robot Scenario Visual Planning) used for designing the robot’s tasks in an environment
• Programming a robot to deal with the “unexpected” using robot S.P.A.C.E.S.
• Programming robots safely using S.A.R.A.A. (Safe Autonomous Robot Application Architecture) Approach
• Programming robots using Arduino C/C++ and Java languages
• Using robot programming techniques with LEGO Mindstorms EV3, Arduino, and other ARM7 and ARM9-based robots.

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