Designing mobile autonomous robots

Abstract

Background Concepts Measure Twice, Cut Once The Hardware The Basics of Real-Time Software (for Mortals) Thinking More Clearly through Fuzzy Logic Closed Loop Systems, Rabbits and Hounds Communication Control Basic Navigation Dead-Reckoning, the Living Core Navigation as a Filtering Process Fear and Caution Navigation Agents and Arbitration Hard Navigation vs. Fuzzy Navigation Becoming Unstuck in Time Preprogramming vs. Teaching Command and Control Diagnostics That's Strange Behavior for a Major Appliance! What Happened? The Importance of Logging and Reporting The Law of Conservation of Defects and the Art of Debugging