Introduction:
This book is about the Atmel’s AVR RISC microcontroller series. It covers architecture, design, and usage of this controller in various sample applications. Atmel Corporation (www.atmel.com) is a leading manufacturer of integrated circuits (ICs). AVR is the name of a microcontroller series that Atmel produces and that is the subject of this book. RISC [...]
The Bluetooth Boe-Bot Robot Kit for Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) is a Parallax Boe-Bot Robot and an A7 Engineering eb500-SER Bluetooth module. The eb500 module makes it possible for the Boe-Bot robot’s BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller brain to communicate wirelessly with MSRS running on a nearby PC. The BASIC Stamp microcontroller runs a small PBASIC program that controls the Boe-Bot robot’s servos and optionally monitors sensors while it communicates wirelessly with MSRS.
Vex Robotics Design System is a robotic kit intended to introduce students as well as adults to the world of robotics. The Vex Robotics Design System is centered around the Vex Starter Kit (which retails for about USD $500). This kit comes with the Vex “brain” (a microcontroller), a hobby-grade remote control, various sensors (2 [...]
This tutorial comes from ikalogic.com and may be become good choice for new comers. I think the electronic and the program is good enough to make the robot running smoothly… You just need to change the mechanism… use motor with gearbox like solarbotics motor GM8, GM17 etc to make easy acceleration when robot in turn [...]
Motor servo has high value of torque, with this motor you will able to control your robot movement easily… just very easy… the disadvantage of using “ex” motor servo just one… yaeh… the velocity is very low… but do not afraid, just change the robot wheel with the large one and then you will see [...]
DC Motors which need high current and high voltage usually give high velocity and high torque. For small robots like line follower robot or fire fighting robot, I think IC motor driver L298 (up to 2A total current) is better choice. While for large and heavy robot, you need high current DC motors also H-Bridge [...]
The motors as actuator device is very and very important to understand. There are many things need to be calculated… velocity, torque, motor voltage and motor current. There is nice post from societyofrobotics about DC Motors. The most important one is about torque… I’ve so confused about choosing DC motors for my robot and now [...]
Ant robots are simple and cheap robots with limited sensing and computational capabilities. This makes it feasible to deploy teams of ant robots and take advantage of the resulting fault tolerance and parallelism. Ant robots cannot use conventional planning methods due to their limited sensing and computational capabilities. Rather, their behavior is driven by local [...]
It uses the tri-state switch to control speed, direction, and braking.
Schottky output diodes are used that match the current and voltage for your motors.
The only ‘real’ difference compared with the 1 amp circuit is that we using an L298 rather than one of the L293 series. The L298 lends itself to mounting a heatsink, [...]
The tutorial com from http://www.micahcarrick.com/05-27-2006/failurebot-line-following-robot.html
Here the robot preview:
Microcontroller ATMega8
Sensor: 5 pieces phototransistor
Motor: Lynxmotion motor
Programming language:
Download tutorial (mechanics, schematics, source code)
