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Stiquito: Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot
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The Stiquito robot is a small, inexpensive, six-legged robot that is intended for use as a research and educational tool. This book describes how to assemble and build Stiquito, provides information on the design and control of legged robots, illustrates its research uses, and includes the robot kit. The experiments in the text lead the reader on a tour of the current state of micro-robotics research. The hobbyist with some digital electronics background will also find this book challenging. The book includes all materials needed to build the Stiquito robot. You need only tools (hobby knife, pliers) and a battery to complete the robot. 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 describe software and hardware designs for performing cooperative, intelligent operations. In addition, the book 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. Contents: Preface - Stiquito Introduction and History - Building Walking Robots - Control of Walking Robots - Using Stiquito for Research - The Future of Nitinol-Propelled Robots - Bibliography - Appendices 328 pages. 7" x 10" Hardcover. November 1997. ISBN 0-8186-7408-3.
Preface - by James M. Conrad
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Stiquito, the Book, and the Kit
by James M. Conrad
Chapter 2: Stiquito: A Small, Simple, Inexpensive Hexapod Robot
by Jonathan W. Mills
Chapter 3: Building Stiquito II and Tensipede
by Jonathan W. Mills
Chapter 4: Increasing Stiquito's Loading Capacity
by John K. Estell, Thomas A. Owen, and Craig A. Szczublewski
Chapter 5: Boris
by Roger G. Gilbertson
Chapter 6: A PC Based Controller for Stiquito Robots
by Jonathan W. Mills
Chapter 7: A M68HC11 Microcontroller-Based Stiquito Controller
by James M. Conrad Nanjundan Mohon
Chapter 8: A Microcontroller-Based Stiquito Colony Communications System
by James M. Conrad, Gregory L. Evans, and Joyce A. Binum
Chapter 9: A General Purpose Controller for Stiquito
by Shyamsundar Pullela
Chapter 10:SCORPIO: Hardware Design
by John K. Estell, Timothy A. Muszynski, Thomas A. Owen, and
Steven R. Snodgrass
Chapter 11:SCORPIO: Software Design
by John K. Estell, Christopher A. Baumgartner, and Quan D. Luong
Chapter 12: Lukasiewicz' Insect: The Role of Continuous-Valued Logic in
a Mobile Robot's Sensors, Control, and Locomotion by
Jonathan W. Mills
Chapter 13: Stiquito, A Platform for Artificial Intelligence
by Matthew C. Scott
Chapter 14: Cooperative Bevaviors of Autonomous Mobile Robots
by Susan A. Mengel, James M. Conrad, Roger Moore, and Lance
Hankins
Chapter 15: The Simulation of a Six-Legged Autonomous Robot Guided by
Vision by Paulo W.C. Maciel
Chapter 16: The Future for Nitinol-Propelled Walking Robots
by Mark Tilden
Appendix A: Biographies of Authors
Appendix B: An Analog Driver Circuit for Nitinol-Propelled Walking
Robots
Appendix C: Sources for Materials for Stiquito (Yellow Pages)
Appendix D: Technical Characteristics of Flexinol Actuator Wires
Index
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