

Infrared Receiver (Panasonic PNA4602M or equivalent) Photo resistors (EG&G Vactec VT935G group B) The following table will list the hardware necessary. In order to successfully complete the project, the following hardware and software is needed for the design and implementation of the robot. In the next section, I will discuss the assembly and testing of the hardware.

Control its motion based on the sensors and its decisions.Make decisions based on what it senses.Sense the world around itself using the sensors.The objective of this article series is to build the following four essential functionalities, i.e. I will be using BASIC Stamp II for building and programming some fundamental functionalities of a robot. Also, some basic electronics knowledge would be helpful once we get into circuit design for the robot. I will be discussing system design and theoretical concepts of microprocessors. Understanding of computer architecture and microcontrollers is a plus for this series of articles. So without further ado, I will begin Part III of the series. This article is more of an introduction to the basic concepts of a robot and how they can be practiced. In Robotics/Embedded Systems Part III, I will actually be building the robot using the Basic Stamp II microcontroller. I then picked the BASIC Stamp II e (BS2e) model and went over the memory architecture and some of the basic commands. The BASIC Stamp II microprocessor family was covered in some length. In Robotics/Embedded Systems Part II, I covered a specific general-purpose processor made by Parallax. I also briefly covered the different types of processor technologies that are available to you for your projects: General Purpose Processors, Single Purpose Processors and Application Specific Processors. I gave examples of embedded system applications that can be found within your car today.

In Robotics/Embedded Systems Part I, I covered the general idea of what embedded systems are.

This is Part III of a series of articles whose goal is to introduce the reader to the world of embedded systems and their applications.
