LINKS

Robocoaster an interesting thrill ride
Cool robot of the Week NASA site.
FIRST Lego League, part of FIRST Robotics.
Seattle Robotics Society
Larry Barello

MOTORS
Electric Voodoo: It's Done with Magnets!
Direct Current Electrical Motor
How do Motors Work?
Motor Tech Corner
A Brief LEGO Motor History

Asimov's Laws of Robotics

Interesting Article on Feedback, Forbes Magazine, Oct. 2002.
The MIT 6.270 Course, the original LEGO robotics course by Fred Martin, Randy Sargent, Anne Wright, P.K. Oberoi, et al.
Robotic Design Studio, a multidisciplinary LEGO robotics course at Wellesley College, developed by Franklyn Turbak and Robbie Berg.
The Robot Laboratory Resource Kit for Teaching Artificial Intelligence, created by Deepak Kumar and Lisa Meeden.
The CWRU LEGO course by Randall Beer and Richard Drushel.
Rich's Hints & Kinks , © 1996-2000 by Dr. Richard F. Drushel; CWRU course guide.
The MIT Handy Board Home Page, which details the commercially-available descendant of the original 6.270 computer board designed by Fred Martin.
Gleason Research, vendor of the MIT Handy Board.
Newton Research Labs , vendor of Interactive C.
Pitsco LEGO Catalog
Botball 2004 Finals competition
Mars Exploration Videos
E-MAIL:
Mr. Michael Chiafulio

Voluntary Reading Assignments

Reading #1 HB Reference Manual, Introduction
Reading #2 , Motors, Art of LEGO Design
Reading #3 , Sensors, Advanced Sensing
Reading #4 , Feedback Control, Matlab Tutorial: Basics and PID Control
Reading #5 , Reactive Control, Subsumption Architecture
Reading #6, Ethics & Robotics
Reading #7, Teleoperation and space exploration
Reading #8, Swarm Robotics
Reading #9, Industry Trends

New Botball Research and Design Website Challenge Announced!
BE SURE TO POST YOUR SUMMARY TO NICENET BY TUESDAY, OCT 3rd.
Agricultural Robot Links:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=177

http://kernow.curtin.edu.au/www/Agrirobot1/oracle.htm

http://kernow.curtin.edu.au/www/Agrirobot1/frutrob.htm

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/agricultural_sciences/report-49327.html

http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/learn_more/low_ed/types/ag.html

http://www.age.uiuc.edu/faculty/teg/Research/BiosystemsAutomation/AgRobots/AgRobots.asp

http://www.agribotics.com/

http://agronomyday.cropsci.uiuc.edu/2004/Tour_A/Robotics/

http://www.service-robots.org/applications/agriculture.htm

http://www.danet.dk/newsletter/NewsLetter_DaNet_Aug05.pdf#search=%22robots%20in%20agriculture%22

http://kernow.curtin.edu.au/www/Agrirobot1/home.htm

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=177

http://www2.hh.se/staff/bjorn/mech-weed/part2/

http://www.service-robots.org/applications/agriculture.htm

http://www.bioeng.ca/

http://txprecag.tamu.edu/content/res.htm

http://www.age.uiuc.edu/faculty/teg/Research/BiosystemsAutomation/AgRobots/AgRobots.asp

The Robot Laboratory Resource Kit for Teaching Artificial Intelligence, created by Deepak Kumar and Lisa Meeden.
The CWRU LEGO course by Randall Beer and Richard Drushel.
Rich's Hints & Kinks , © 1996-2000 by Dr. Richard F. Drushel; CWRU course guide.
The MIT Handy Board Home Page, which details the commercially-available descendant of the original 6.270 computer board designed by Fred Martin.
Gleason Research, vendor of the MIT Handy Board.
Newton Research Labs , vendor of Interactive C.
Pitsco LEGO Catalog
Botball 2004 Finals competition
Mars Exploration Videos