Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems [Paperback]

Thomas Bräunl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 2006 | ISBN-10: 3540343180 | ISBN-13: 978-3540343189 | Edition: 2nd

This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), mobile robot design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and mobile robot applications (mapping, robot soccer, genetic algorithms, neural networks, behavior-based systems, and simulation). The book is written as a text for courses in computer science, computer engineering, IT, electronic engineering, and mechatronics, as well as a guide for robot hobbyists and researchers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the reviews of the second edition: "This book provides an interesting overview on embedded robotics. … presents most of the practical aspects related to the design and control of an autonomous robot. … In the reviewer’s opinion, this book is suitable as a textbook for a laboratory class on robotics. … The book might also be of interest to Ph.D. students … . is very well organized and it-is-written-in-a-pleasantly concise style. Undergraduate and graduate students and researchers interested in embedded robotics will find it useful and rich in valuable material." (Gianluca Antonelli, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (3), 2007) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Bräunl is Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Perth, where he founded and directs the Mobile Robot Lab and is also Director of the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS). Professor Bräunl received a Diploma in Informatics in 1986 from Univ. Kaiserslautern, an MS in Computer Science in 1987 from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a PhD and Habilitation in Informatics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from Univ. Stuttgart. He has worked in the past for BASF and DaimlerChrysler and has founded a company for innovative mobile robot design. Professor Bräunl’s research interests are robotics, vision, graphics, and concurrency. He is author of several research books and textbooks and has developed the EyeBot mobile robot family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 458 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (July 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540343180
• ISBN-13: 978-3540343189
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,247,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's good but not essential, November 6, 2009

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Sean Curtin (Warners Bay, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems (Paperback)

A good general coverage.

This book is a good overview of robotics design and development. My main dissapointment with it was the focus on the controller which is a commercial unit you would need to purchase in order to use the code contained in the book. The unit is expensive to say the least for what it is and I found myself deciding that I would simply adapt what I could to my own controllers and treat the volume as a general overview.

I did like it's chapter on multi-directional wheels and some of the code showed some straight forward ways of going about robot routine programming.

Overall though the book is not going to be overly useful to the robotics designer unless your hell bent on purchasing the controller it promotes.

In conclusion it's a uni students book, where the Uni will have brought a few of the controllers for the students to interface too and program. For the rest of us, it's just bits and pieces of information, where without the controller it will only be about 45% value.

Sean A. Curtin

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comments to Embedded Robotics, July 30, 2006

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Ricardo Alonso (Valencia, Carabobo Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems (Hardcover)

Hi, so far the book is a little dissapointeing, because is to much centered to a commercial hardware (EyeCon) that is somewhat hard to adquiere to a group that has a very low budget for that kind of projects... but is important to have a reference. That is why it deserve a 3. But also supply a very important source of information for sensors and actuators design. That is why i gave an average of 4 stars.

Best regards, and thanks for all the effort you made for me enjoying this book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure chest of ideas, August 27, 2006

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Sasu Mattila "sasu" (Finland, Europe) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems (Hardcover)

This book is a real treasure chest of ideas for an amateur robot builder. It does not show solutions in enough detail to copy them, but it points you in the right direction.

For me some of the most interesting topics covered were:

- Motorola M68332 based general purpose robot controller board,

- Introduction to different robot competitions,

- Simplified image processing solutions,

- Walking robots and evolutionary programs to control the gait,

- Examples of real life robots.