Robot Programming: A Guide to Controlling Autonomous Robots, 1/e First Edition  (English, Paperback, Cameron Hughes, Tracey Hughes)

The Beginner's Guide to Programming Robots helps students build their skills through four simple projects created with today's leading robot microcontrollers (ARM9 and ARM7) on leading robot platforms (LEGO Mindstorms EV3, NXT, and Wowee RS Media Robot). Step by step, they'll learn how to use modern techniques to program robot sensors, motors, and more.
Features:
Teaches students to program robot sensors and motors, and discover the latest robot automation techniques
Covers both ARM9 and ARM7 micro-controllers, including the newest LEGO Mindstorms and Wowee RS Media Robots
Unleashes the power of Java for LEGO and the Linux-based OS for LEGO Mindstorms EV3
Teaches practical skills
Features:
How important is it for students to learn about the research that has led to our current understanding of evolution?

Inquiry-Driven Presentation - Presents basic principles of evolutionary biology through the analysis of new and classical research studies.
Trains students to think like scientists and conveys the excitement of new discoveries in the field.
How much data analysis do you incorporate into your class?

Evolution presented as a process - Enables students to make connections as they see a scientific theory from observation, through testing and data analysis.
How important is visualization in your course?

Author-developed illustration program - Includes full-color photographs, diagrams and data-graphics throughout.
Ties the illustrations closely to the text, making the overall presentation more accessible to students.

Instructor Resource CD - Contains all of the line art as jpegs for use in your lecture presentation.

About the Author

Cameron Hughes is a computer and robot programmer. He holds a post as a Software Epistemologist at Ctest Laboratories where he is currently working on A.I.M. (Alternative Intelligence for Machines) and A.I.R. (Alternative Intelligence for Robots) technologies. Cameron is the lead AI Engineer for the Knowledge Group at Advanced Software Construction Inc., a builder of intelligent robot controllers and software-based knowledge components. He holds a staff appointment as a Programmer/Analyst at Youngstown State University. Tracey Hughes is a senior software and graphics programmer at Ctest Laboratories and Advanced Software Construction Inc. where she develops user interfaces and information and epistemic visualization software systems. Her work includes methods of graphically showing what robots and computers are thinking. She is on the design and implementation teams for the East-Sidaz robots at Ctest as well.
Both Cameron and Tracey Hughes are members of the advisory board for the NREF (National Robotics Education Foundation) and members of the Oak Hill Collaborative Robotics Maker Space. They are project leaders of the technical team for the NEOACM CSI/CLUE Robotics Challenge and regularly organize and direct robot programming workshops for the Arduino, Mindstorms EV3, LEGO NXT, and RS Media robot platforms. Cameron and Tracey are two of the authors of Build Your Own Teams of Robots with LEGO� Mindstorms� NXT and Bluetooth, published by McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, January 2013. They have written many books and blogs on Software Development and Artificial Intelligence. They've also written books on multicore, multithreaded programming, Linux rapid application development, objectoriented programming, and parallel programming in C++.