• Arduino Homepage.
  • Language Reference
  • Tutorials
• Equipment/Parts Catalogs
  • Jameco Electronics
  • Digikey (data sheets)
  • Radioshack
  • The Robot MarketPlace
  • Acroname
    • maxon gearmotor with encoder and many R/C servo choices
    • Datasheet for our Pyrometer
• RobotStore and RobotStore(Hong Kong) lots of good stuff
• Superdroid Robots
• Novasoft programmable mobile robots, 68HC11-based microcontrollers, kits, mini-cameras, R/C servos, and parts.
• Handy Board web-site, complete with download-able code for your projects.
  • MC68HC11 Motorola's spec for the handyboard chip.
  • Handy Board Technical Reference compressed postscript pdf
  • Interactive C you can also get this in the Handy Board Technical Reference
• Trinity College Fire Fighting Contest web-site

Supplemental Lecture Content Fall 2018

• Introduction
  • Introduction - course/project overview
• Electronics
  • Analog Circuits
    units and teminology, Kirchoff's laws, resistors, capacitors, RC circuits, differentiators, integrators, inductors, transformers, switches, relays, TuteBot
    (MR Chapter 2.4, 7.7.2)(H&H Chapter 1, 1.01-1.12)
    1. Pop notes: Basic Concepts in Electricity
       time, current, voltage, energy, power, Kirchoff's laws, resistors, voltage dividers
       (MR Chapter 1 and 2)(H&H Chapter 1, 1.01-1.12)
    2. Pop notes: Capacitors and RC circuits (H&H Chapter 1, 1.12-1.24)
    3. Pop notes: More RC circuits and Inductors differentiators, integrators, transformers, switches, relays.
    4. Batteries, Regulators, Optical Isolation (MR Chapter 8)
  • Semiconductors (.ppt) (MR 195-210)(H&H Chapter 2)
    
  • Transistors (.ppt) (MR 195-210)(H&H Chapter 2)
    
    1. Pop notes: Transistors
    2. Pop notes: Operational Amplifiers
    3. Pop notes: Interfacing Digital and Analog Circuits (MR 191-224) (H&H Chapter 9)
  • Operational Amplifiers (.ppt)
    
• Compute Hardware
  • Mobile Robotics Text chapter 3
  • introduction to the Arduino
• Actuators
  • Actuators (.ppt) pneumatic, hydraulic, steppers, DC motors, electrodynamics, gearheads, motor drivers, inductive loads.
    1. actuators, DC motors, electrodynamics (.pdf) (MR Chapter 7)
    2. gearboxes, motor drivers, inductive loads (.ps)
• Transducers
  • Signals, Odometry, and the HandyBoard (.ppt)
    1. interface/drivers, light, force, sound (MR p. 93-117)
    2. position, proprioception, vision (MR p.117-136)
  • Signal Processing - sampling, aliasing, filtering ( CASS 7.4)
• Control
  • Control Theory (.ppt) - closed-loop transfer function, digital controllers
  • Stability and Control Synthesis Lyapunov's Direct method, root locus, control law design for stability
    1. Pop notes: Linear Systems and the Laplace Transform
• Control and Supervisory Architectures
  • supervisory controllers
• Real-Time Systems
  • Real-Time Systems (.ppt)
    1. Introduction to Real-Time Systems (.ps.Z)
    2. Real-Time Programming (.ps.Z)
    3. Scheduling (.ps.Z) priorities, inheritance, inversion, schedulability, rate monotonic and other scheduling algorithms
    4. Issues in Real-Time Control (.ps.Z)
       
    5. Programming Sensor-Based Systems - Sequential Control Decisions