| View Larger Image | Robot Programming : A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics | Paperbackby Joe Jones (Author), Daniel Roth (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 288 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 12, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 64,520th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
* Teaches the concepts of behavior-based programming through text, programming examples, and a unique online simulator robot * Explains how to design new behaviors by manipulating old ones and adjusting programming * Does not assume reader familiarity with robotics or programming languages * Includes a section on designing your own behavior-based system from scratch (20040601) |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 11 reviews)
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Very Useful Robot Programming Book by Ronald Willem  5 Stars
May 05, 2008
Most of the robot books I've purchased rarely explained the detail of how you could create some kind of "intelligent" program and expand it as you need. This book give you an example using pseudo code so basically you could implement it in any programming language usually found in embedded programming such as C, Basic/Stamp or Assembler. I would highly recommend this book for robotics enthusiast who wants to make their robot behave like it has some kind of intelligent.
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Essential Reading for Mobile Robot Builders by Sara Morgan Rea (Baton Rouge, LA) 5 Stars
January 14, 2008
I have read dozens of robotics books over the years and most of them suck. They were either too academic or too basic. This book is excellent and was a refreshing change.
Written by one of the designers of iRobots Roomba, this book is indeed a practical guide to robotics. It is easy to read and full of practical advice that one would only get if they spent the last 20 something years working with robots. For example, the author repeatedly warns you to expect the unexpected.
Even though this book incudes access to a simulator tool, the author constantly reminds you of what could occur in the real world. This book is for anyone attempting to build a single-purpose mobile robot (whether as a commercial developer or a hobbyist). Rather than focusing on a specific language or platform, the author uses pseudocode to explain concepts. The pseudocode should save you hours of frustration. At the very least, the authors good sense of humor makes reading the book quite enjoyable.
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where has the website gone? by Musty (Istanbul - Turkey)  4 Stars
January 08, 2008
This is a nice little book. It introduces some important concepts in an overall very readable text. Of course the book doesn't offer much technical detail or any real code but sometimes it comes close. If you already have any experience in programming you can easily get the point in the example pseudo codes and adapt them for your own use.
There is a major problem about this book though. The online robot simulation program was available from the link given inside the book but this website is not active anymore so you can not practice the ideas using the "bsim" program.
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Great book on principles... by Broadmeadow (Austin, TX) 5 Stars
October 25, 2007
The book aims squarely at teaching the concepts of behavior based robotic programming without being simplistic or being overly technical. A good example is PID controllers -- the ID stand for integral and differential. He doesn't dive down into the mathematics of it but does point out that those two stages of the controller a not separately tunable.
The book doesn't present a lot of pseudo code nor does it focus on an type of microprocessor or language.
It gives very good conceptual descriptions of how to create architectures that allow multiple sensors and actuators to act together to produce meaningful and emergent behavior while pointing out pitfalls and problems that may crop up. The book is chock full of block diagrams showing the setups being discussed.
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Easy read and a good introduction by R. Bequette (Sacramento, CA USA) 5 Stars
May 10, 2006
The book is easy to read and a good introducion to behavior based programming. I always like it when the author uses some humor to turn a book that could have been a boring "must read" into an entertaining experience.
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