Programming robots

suza_phone

I'm looking for good resources / books which explain programming robots a little more advanced than the boebot manual does.

I've come across a series of tutorials by a person named Dennis Clark (published by a German electronics magazine). He briefly explains the idea of "Finite state machine" -programming and gives some examples for the BoeBot ...
That seems to be exactly what I need for my project - but since its only a brief tutorial I don't feel the whole topic being fully explained (and me not being able to fully grasp it).

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So if anyone knows about some valuable resources that explain the topic much more thoroughly I'd be very happy!
For those interested in the tutorials they can be download here:
http://elmicro.com/de/boebot.html

Tibo

Google, first result [noparse]:http:[/noparse]//www.bluebelldesign.com/FSM_explain.htm
Is this new to you or exactly what you've seen before and not enough ?
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Bruce Bates

suza_phone -

I suspect what you're looking for is "finite state machines", not "finished state machine" although I've not read the articles by Dennis Clark.

Regards,

Bruce Bates

Kevin Wood

The Applied Robotics with the SumoBot Student Guide has a section on state machines and diagrams. You can download it from the Parallax website, and should be able to adapt the code to the BoeBot.

suza_phone

Thank you - I'll check out your recommondations.

(of course its finite state machine - not "finished" - that was a stupid typing mistake)


cheers