Embedded Robotics

Embedded Robotics

Thomas Bräunl

EMBEDDED ROBOTICS
Mobile Robot Design
and Applications
with Embedded Systems
Second Edition

With 233 Figures and 24 Tables

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Thomas Bräunl
School of Electrical, Electronic
and Computer Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, Perth, WA 6009
Australia

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006925479

ACM Computing Classification (1998): I.2.9, C.3

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ISBN-10 3-540-03436-6 1. Edition Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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P.REFACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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t all started with a new robot lab course I had developed to accompany my
robotics lectures. We already had three large, heavy, and expensive
mobile robots for research projects, but nothing simple and safe, which we
could give to students to practice on for an introductory course.
We selected a mobile robot kit based on an 8-bit controller, and used it for
the first couple of years of this...