This book is meant to be interesting, helpful, and educational to hobbyists, students, educators, and midlevel engineers studying or designing mobile robots that do real work. It is primarily focused on mechanisms and devices that relate to vehicles that move around by themselves and actually do things autonomously, . a robot. Making a vehicle that can autonomously drive around, both indoors and out, seems, at first, like a simple thing. Build a chassis, add drive wheels, steering wheels, a power source (usually batteries), some control code that includes some navigation and obstacle avoidance routines or some other way to control it, throw some bump sensors on it, and presto!. | Illustrated Paul E. Sandin Robot Mechanisms Mechanical Devices Robot Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Illustrated Paul E. Sandin McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi annjan n Soo u l ningape re dyeney Torooto Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976 no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-142928-X The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title 0-07-141200-X All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name we use names in an editorial fashion only and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. For more information please contact George Hoare Special Sales at george_hoare@ or 212 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. McGraw-Hill and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve one copy of the work you may not decompile disassemble reverse engineer reproduce modify create derivative works based upon transmit distribute disseminate sell publish or sublicense the work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill s prior consent. You may use the work for your own noncommercial and personal use any other use of the work is strictly prohibited. Your
