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STIQUITO: Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot, Robot Kit Included
STIQUITO: Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot, Robot Kit Included
James M. Conrad
Jonathan W. Mills
ISBN: 978-0-8186-7408-2
©1997
328 pages
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Preface
* An Introduction to Stiquito, the Book, and the Kit (James M. Conrad).
* Stiquito: A Small, Simple, Inexpensive Hexapod Robot (Jonathan W. Mills).
* Building Stiquito II and Tensipede (Jonathan W. Mills).
* Increasing Stiquito's Loading Capacity (John K. Estell, Thomas A. Owen, and Craig A. Szezublewski).
* Boris: A Motorless Six-Legged Walking Machine (Roger G. Gilbertson).
* A PC-Based Controller for Stiquito Robots (Jonathan W. Mills).
* An M68HC11 Microcontroller-Based Stiquito Controller (James M. Conrad and Mohan Nanjundan).
* An M68HC11-Based Stiquito Colony Communication System (James M. Conrad, Gregory Lee Evans, and Joyce Ann Binam).
* A General-Purpose Controller for Stiquito (Shyamsundar Palleto).
* SCORPIO: Hardware Design (John K. Estell, Timothy A. Muszynski, Thomas A. Owen, Steven R. Snodgrass, Craig A. Szezublewski, and Jason A. Thomas).
* SCORPIO: Software Design (John K. Estell, Christopher A. Baumgartner, and Quan D. Luong).
* Lukasiewicz' Insect: The Role of Continuous-Valued Logic in a Mobile Robot's Sensors, Control, and Locomotion (Jonathan W. Mills).
* Stiquito, a Platform for Artificial Intelligence (Matthew C. Scott).
* Cooperative Behaviors of Autonomous Mobile Robots (Susan A. Mengel, James M. Conrad, Lance Hankins, and Roger Moore).
* The Simulation of a Six-Legged Autonomous Robot Guided by Vision (Pauto W.C. Maciet).
* The Future for Nitinol-Propelled Walking Robots (Mark W. Tilden).


Appendix A: Author Biographies.
Appendix B: An Analog Driver Circuit for Nitinol-Propelled Walking Robots.
Appendix C: Sources of Materials for Stiquito.
Appendix D: Technical Characteristics of Flexinol Actuator Wires.

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