tailieunhanh - PDA Robotics - Using Your Personal Digital Assistant to Control Your Robot

The NASA Mars Sojourner rover inspired this project . I followed the mission with great enthusiasm and witnessed a giant leap in robotics that day it began roaming the Martian terrain and sending images back to earth. Though I was in awe when the Viking missions of the 1970’s were in progress, we didn’t see that near real-time interaction with the craft . The twin rovers scheduled to launch May/July 2003 and land on the surface January 2004 will be something to follow ! PDA Robot is a scaled down version of Sojourner that has a similar framework, components, and functionality at a much lower cost! The personal digital assistant is. | Innovative designs and concepts How to use wireless links Irom any PDA Uses low-cost equipment easy to obtain Software control circuits and Interlaces Easily customized modules PDA Robotics This page intentionally left .