Robotics Tutorials
This is a listing of robotics tutorials submitted by Robotics Society of Southern California members.
W. Grey Walter and his Turtle Robots |
by Arthur Ed LeBouthillier This article appeared in the May 1999 issue of "The Robot Builder"
Simple robots based on animal-like neural systems and behaviors may seem like a novelty today, but they have their genesis in the work of one of the early pioneers of robotics and artificial life, W. Grey Walter. W. Grey Walter developed a... |
The New Millennium Remote Agent Architecture |
by Arthur Ed LeBouthillier This article was published in the August 1999 issue of Ther Robot Builder. In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spacecraft embodying HAL was essentially a large robot. It was composed of an artificial intelligent component, HAL, and the spaceship itself with all of its automatic effector systems. HAL, although a fictional program, represented an entity... |
Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and First Order Logic |
By Arthur Ed LeBouthillier This article was published in the September 1999 issue of The Robot Builder.
There are many different approaches to creating artificial intelligence in computers and, for our |
pro's and con's of range sensors |
During the February 2010 RSSC meeting, a small discussion on the pro's and con's of range sensors, particularly IR and ultrasonic, was held. This article gives a short overview of that discussion: ... |
PIC 16F877A Tutorial |
Here is an interesting and informative PIC tutorial provided by Lukas Hoffmann from Emory University, Neuroscience. He is a member of the Robotics and Automation Society at the University of Pittsburg (http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/robotics/). The tutorial gives an introduction to the PIC16F877A microcontroller, how to hook it up and make it work. There are also example programs you... |