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From introductory to intermediate level
Covers in-depth embedded microcontroller systems, sensors, actuators (DC motors), PID control, mobile robot design, and mobile robot applications
Layout with icons per chapter, side-texts, and lots of figures, photographs, and worked example programs
Internet support at http://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/eyebot/ with free download of: RoBIOS operating system, example programs, online documentation, simulator
Lecture Notes (PowerPoint) available for lecturers who adopt the book for a course
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mobile Robot Applications
About this book
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”.
Internet support at http://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/eyebot/ with free download of: RoBIOS operating system, example programs, online documentation, simulator
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
"This book provides an interesting overview on embedded robotics. … presents most of the practical aspects related to the design and control of an autonomous robot. … In the reviewer’s opinion, this book is suitable as a textbook for a laboratory class on robotics. … The book might also be of interest to Ph.D. students … . is very well organized and it-is-written-in-a-pleasantly concise style. Undergraduate and graduate students and researchers interested in embedded robotics will find it useful and rich in valuable material." (Gianluca Antonelli, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (3), 2007)
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Thomas Bräunl
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Embedded Robotics
Book Subtitle: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems
Authors: Thomas Bräunl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70534-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-70534-5Published: 20 September 2008
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XIV, 546
Number of Illustrations: 305 b/w illustrations
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics