Final Report: Arachnae II

Related Links

Some sites of chip manufactures and engineering companies, which are worth to be visited.

• Home of the manufacturer of these grand PIC microcontrollers (tiny in size but great in performance). A lot of technical data, programming specifications for their silicon, application notes (absolutely usefull).
  By the way, they really have heart for low-budget students like us and send free-of-charge a complete mirror of their website on cd and the Embedded Control Handbook, Volume 1 (1800 pages !)
  http://www.microchip.com
• This company did a really good job when they produced their Basic Stamp family (based on several members of the PIC chip family).
  http://www.parallaxinc.com
• National Semiconductor. Besides a bunch of other chip families they have good and budget-priced analog-to-dogital converters.
  http://www.national.com
• Linear Technologies. Good (the performance not the price) RS232 Interface chips 
• And of course Siemens at
  http://www.siemens.de
• Dallas Semiconductor
  http://www.dalsemi.com

Universities, Robot companies and all those cracked robot enthusiasts, which gave us some ideas, how a robot should look like, behave and .. well, all those needless details.

• Thomas Burg, "A Six-legged Walking Robot", http://cccsrv.trevano.ch/~tburg/Hexapod.html
• Case Western Reserve University, Bio Robotics Lab, http://biorobots.mae.cwru.edu/
• Kynan Eng, Alec Robertson, "Robbie the Running Robot", Monash University, http://netspace.net.au/~kynan/robot/robot.html
• Forschungszentrum Informatik, 76131 karlsruhe, Germany, http://www.fzi.de
• Fraunhofer Institut IFF, Abteilung Fabrikautomation, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, http://www.iff.fhg.de/iff/aut/schreit/mag_e.htm
• Dylan Horvath, Jeff Lee, Stefan Williams, "Hexotica - The Design and Implementation of a Small Walking Robot", http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~robot/
• Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/lri-3/www/design/previous-designs.html
• Carnegie Mellon University, Field Robotics Center, http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/FRC/people.html, http://maas-neotek.arc.nasa.gov/dante
• Willard S.MacDonald, http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/thing/thing.html
• MIT Mobile Robotics Laboratory, http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/mobile-robots/
• Ahmet ONAT, "The six-legged walker GOKIBURI", http://turbine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/staff/onat.html
• Frank Scott, "Rodney, A Six-Legged Walking Robot", http://www.frasco.ac.uk/
• University of Florida, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Intelligence Machine Design Laboratory,
  http://www.mil.ufl.edu/publications, http://www.mil.ufl.edu/projects
• Stanford University, CS Robotics Lab, Palo Alto, http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/mark/polypod.html
• Links to other Robot Home pages: http://www.robotics.com/robots.html
• THE starting point for the archives of the Comp.Robotics.Research newsgroup. http://www.robot.ireq.ca/crr/
• Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland. http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amrl/amrl.html
• Artificial Intelligence Journal: http://www.cs.washington.edu//research/jair/home.html
• Rod Brooks, the inventor of subsumption architectures. Get his papers here. http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/brooks.html
• Frequently Asked Questions for all those wacky persons interested in robotics. http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/robotics-faq/
• Good link page for robotics information around the world. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/robotics/world.html
• Arobot project based on an insect philosophy: http://armyant.ee.vt.edu/paper/robo_mag.html
• Aanother walking robot: http://www.lance.colostate.edu/walk/
• Technical specs of the Polaroid sonar transducer: http://www.wirz.com
• Notes on implementation issues and problems:. http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/musliner/sonar/note
• Localization algorithm for autonomous navigation: http://www.isa.uma.es/~gonzalez/localization.html
• The Motion Research Group at the University of Waterloo: http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~morg, http://www.uwaterloo.ca/.
• NASA Robotics: http://img.arc.nasa.gov/papers-and-abstracts.html

Last updated: 26.6.1999