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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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Hallmark Features

  • The book begins with an introduction that describes the birth of Stiquito.
  • The chapters that follow describe the building process, its modifications, and its increased load capacity.
  • Other chapters examine designs for simple controllers to enhance the functionality of the robot and to give the robot intelligence and SCORPIO hardware designs for performing independent, intelligent operations.
  • The text also illustrates Stiquito's uses in education by presenting lab exercises, describing the use of nitinol in classroom experiments, and providing a robotics curriculum for undergraduates.
  • It examines further research on the role of logic in a mobile robot's sensors, control, and locomotion; Stiquito's platform for AI; and simulation of a robot guided by vision.
  • The book concludes with a discussion of the future for nitinol-propelled walking robots.
 

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