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PIC programming, 102-119, 103, 104
medical, 9-11
EPIC programmer and CodeDesigner,
118-119, 119
nanotech medical, 10-11
EPIC programming board software, robot(s) (Cont.):
neural networks in, 22
110-113, 110-113 personal, 2-3
first PICBASIC Pro program, 117-118, 118 purposes of, 2-3
new IDE features, 115, 115-117 and robot wars, 11-12
PICBASIC Pro compiler, 115 war, 11
programming the PIC chip, 106, 106, 110 (See also specific headings)
steps in, 105-106 Rocky IV, 5
testing PIC microcontroller, 113-114, 114 Rohrer, Heinrich, 10
troubleshooting, 114 rotary solenoids:
using the compiler, 105, 108, 108-109, 109 in movement and drive systems, 46, 47
writing BASIC language program, 105-107 in robotic fish, 263, 264, 264
“pick and place” robots, 7 Rubbertuator (see air muscles)
piezoelectric sensors, 91 rule-based (expert) intelligence programs,
pillow blimp, 277, 279 101
platforms, mobile (see mobile platforms) rumble interface (T-bot), 210
power, 23-40 R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots (Karel
from batteries, 28-38 Capek), 1
from fuel cells, 38-40
from photovoltaic cells, 23-28 S
pressure sensors, 90-91, 94, 94 SASS LITE, 271
primary batteries, 29-32 scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs), 10
printed circuit board (PCB), 24, 25, 26 Scientific American, 267
programs, AL, 17-18 secondary batteries, 30-32
proton exchange membrane (PEM), 39, 40 self-awareness, 21-22 329
prototyping robots, 7 self-replicating robots, 17
semirigid aircraft, 270
R sensors, 59-99
radio-controlled (R/C) systems: bend, 92, 92, 93
for blimps, 277, 278, 278 and body sense, 81, 81-82
model cars, 202-205, 203, 204, 207-214, 214 building tester robot, 97, 97-99, 98
rechargeable batteries, 30-32 of direction—magnetic fields, 82-85, 82-85
remote control systems, 269-270 heat, 93, 93
rigid aircraft, 270 humidity, 97
The Robot Group, 271 light, 64-80
robot war competitions, 11-12 machine vision, 80-81
Robot Wars, 11 piezoelectric, 91
Robotica, 12 pressure, 94, 94
robot(s), 1-13 signal conditioning with, 60-63
civilian drones, 12 smell, 94-96, 95, 96
definition of, 1 sound and ultrasonics, 86-89, 86-90
design/prototyping, 7 speech recognition, 85
domestic, 12 switches in, 92
exploration, 3-7 testing of, 97
fire-fighting, 9 touch and pressure, 90-91, 91
for hazardous duty service, 8 servo motors, 126, 126-127
history of, 1-2 in movement and drive systems, 48, 50-53,
human operators vs., 2 50-53
industrial, 7 in walker robots, 235, 241-244, 243, 244
maintenance, 9 shaped memory alloys (SMAs), 43

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