Stiquito Controlled Robot Kit

JAMES M. CONRAD, PhD, is currently a professor for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Jim has worked with IBM, Ericsson/Sony Ericsson, and BPM Technologies. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the Project Management Institute and IEEE Computer Society, and board member of the IEEE Computer Society Press operating committee. He is the author of three books on autonomous robotics and has written numerous journal articles, conference papers, and technical papers.

Foreword vii

Preface ix

1 An Introduction to Robotics and Stiquito 1

2 Introduction to Embedded Systems and the Stiquito Controller Board 15

3 PCB Layout and Manufacturing 33

4 Building Stiquito Controlled 63

5 Stiquito Programming Using Texas Instruments MSP430F1122 111

6 A Two-Degree-of-Freedom Stiquito Robot 129

7 Optimizing the Stiquito Robot for Speed 147

8 More Stiquito Controlled 159

Appendix: Sources of Materials for Stiquito 169

Glossary 175

Index 183

About the Authors 187

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