Summer School 2010

R.U.R. - Rusty, Ugly Robots

• Acrob Workshop
• Lego Robotic Workshop

90 Years of the Robots and the cultural context of robotics

by prof. RNDr. Jozef Kelemen, DrSc. (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)

Further reading

• The Mechanical Mind in History. Edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland and Michael Wheeler. MIT Press, April 2008, ISBN-10: 0-262-08377-9.
• Horáková, Kelemen: Čapek, Turing, von Neumann, and the 20th Century Evolution of the Concept of Machine
• Horáková, Kelemen: Robots - Some Cultural Roots
• Horáková, Kelemen: Robot: The True Story of the Word

Digital Signal Processing

by prof. Gerhard Gruhler, (University of Heilbronn, Germany)

• Presentation
• Accompanying Matlab files

Further reading

• Control
  • Download and Install F280x Digital Motor Control Library. Then read: C:\tidcs\DMC\c28\v32x\lib\doc\pid_reg3.pdf
  • Digital Control Systems (DCS) Group: Digital Motor Control. Software Library. Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas 2003.
  • TI Digital Motor Control Solutions. Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas 2005.
• Analog filters
  • Bruce Carter and L.P. Huelsman: Handbook Of Operational Amplifier Active RC Networks. Application Report. Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas 2001.
  • Ron Mancini: Op Amps for Everyone. Design Reference. Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas 2002.

History of the robotics

by Assoc. prof. Ing. Peter Hubinský, PhD. (FEI STU, Slovakia)

Illustrated lecture about the history of the robotics - from ancient inventions to the latest research projects. Information about technical and also non-technical aspects of the robotics evolution.

• The lecture presentation is not here due to the copyright issues

Links

• History of robotics
• Timeline of Robotics
• History of the Slovak robotics
• History of the Robotics at the STU

Mobile robots

by Assoc. prof. Ing. Peter Hubinský, PhD. (FEI STU, Slovakia)

Basic types of the mobile robot kinematics - differential drive, tricycle, Ackermann steering, omnidirectional wheels, synchronous drives - basic structures, coordinate transformations, technical solutions.

• Download the presentation

Image Processing

Here You can download the accompanying files for Matlab

Here You can download the accompanying files for Octave

Projects

• Photo Gallery

• Example Project Page (Summer 2008) - to create Your own, use login robot, pass: tobor

Lego Projects

This space is reserved for YOUR PROJECTS.

See also Lego Robotic Workshop

Acrob Projects

This space is reserved for YOUR PROJECTS.

See also Acrob Workshop

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