ROBOT WEB LINK

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ROBOT WEB LINK IN THAILAND

• MECHATRONIC CLUB – KKU.
• CUROBOT.(ชมรมนักประดิษฐ์วิศวกรรม) หรือ Engineering Innovator Club – CU.
• Electronic Club , Robot Club – KMITL
• Micro Club – MUT
• Walking Robot – KMITNB
• panmanee.com - เป็นเว็บของคนไทยที่ทำได้เยี่ยมมากครับ

Academic Robotics-Related Web Servers

Robot Competitions & Contests

• Odyssey of the Mind "OMerdroid" Project
• KISS Institute Odyssey of the Mind "OMerdroid" suggestions
• The official WWW site of the BEAM Robot Games
• RobotWars Web Page
• Robot Competetion FAQ by NCC
• Resource Center for Robot Sumo Contests
• Micromouse contest
• US First Contest for Youth
• Robotix Annual Conference, Exhibition, Contest

Robot Construction Toys and Modelling

• Lego Mindstorm Official Web Site
• Lego Mindstorm Hacking
• Dutch Fischertechnik Association
• A Modelling Course in 10 parts by Bill Zuk
• Plastruct has more than 4000 plastic parts for the modeler
• Pause Magazine's Lego Reference Guide
• Building a Lego Robot
• The official Lego Site
• MCPD's Everything Lego Page
• YES! A Lego FAQ!
• Fischertechnik home page by Model A Technology
• Gordy's fischertechnik® Price Watch
• The Metal Construction Set FAQ by Jeff Duntemann
• History of Erector Sets
• Southern California Meccano & Erector Club
• Joel Perlin Erector Construction Toy Specialist

Robotics resource lists by Arrick Robotics

• The PIC Microcontroller Resource List
• The Internet Mechanical Parts Source
• The PC/104 Microcontroller Resource List
• The Video Processing Equipment Source List
• The Machine Framing Source List
• The Surplus Electonics Source List
• The Wireless Data Link Source List

Find Companies

• Dana's Index of Electronics Mfgs
• Gray's Semiconductor link page
• BizWeb
• More than 1000 companies listed
• Thomas Register On-Line
• The Chip Directory
• ELab's Embedded Electronics Directory

Looking for robot toys?

• RobotBooks.Com - the name says it all!
• PROCON TECHNOLOGY - fischertechnik
• Cybertoys
• Rockville Creative Learning
• The Robot Store
• A great gallery of robot toy images
• Features photographs of toy robots.
• Big Life Toys has Classic Robots from the 60's and 70's
• Robots & Space Toy Collectibles
• JOKER Computer Systems and Robotics
• Very Large/Cool Exoskeleton from the ReBoot Cartoon
• Robots-R-Us Robot Kits

Want to buy a robot for research?

• Real World Interface, Inc.
• Trilobot Mobile Research Robot
• Lynxmotion Robotic Arm Kit for educators and Experimenters
• Robix Robot Construction Set
• Edmund Scientific Co carries several small robots
• Movit Educational Robot kits

Robots in the Movies and on TV

Search the Internet Movie Database for the following movies:

• Robby the Robot
• Small Wonder
• Silent Running - Huey, Duey, & Luey become tree huggers
• Lost In Space - Danger Will Robinson!
• Short Circuit - Number Johnny 5 is alive!
• StarWars - R2-D2, C-3P0, AT/ST Walkers, and more
• 3-D Modeling of Starwars machines by the 3D Modeling Alliance
• 3D modeling of the Starwars droids
• Terminator - Arnold repeats "I'll Be Back"
• Forbidden Planet - Robby the robot can lift anything!
• RoboCop - Robot violience to the max
• Runaway - Tom Seilic gets attacked
• Westworld - Androids and Yul Brynner shoot'em up

Also see:

• Animal Makers Inc. animatronic puppets

Robots in Cartoons

• Cybertron Transformers

NASA & Space Robots

• Robotic Vehicles Group at NASA
• LunaCorp Robotic Teleport Project
• Sojourner Rover abord the Mars Pathfinder
• NASA Telerobotics Program
• The Russian Marsokhod Planetary Rover
• NASA - Dante

Patents in Robotics and A.I.

• IBM Patent Database

Books and Magazines for Robot Builders

• On-Line Technical Book Stores
• Codys Books
• Prentice Hall
• McGraw-Hill
• OPAMP Technical Books
• Addison-Wesley
• Computer Literacy Bookshops
• CRC Press, Inc.
• Powells Technical Bookstore
• Robot Books from OPAMP Technical Books
• Nuts & Volts Magazine
• Circuit Cellar Magazine
• DPRG Robot Library
• Robot Builder's Bonanza by Gordon McComb, TAB Books, ISBN 0-8306-2800-2
  Good overall book inspite of several circuit errors.
• Android Design by Martin Bradley Weinstein, Hayden Books, ISBN 0-8104-5192-1
  Good discussion of motor drives, batteries, etc.
• Where Am I : Sensors and Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robot Positioning
• Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation ISBN 1-56881-011-3

Programming Languages

• Dunfield Development Systems C and Assembly Development Kits

Law Enforcement Robots

• Terra Aerospace Robotic Vehicles

Artifical Muscles

• Shadow Robot Project: The SHADOW Air Muscle
• The Artificial Muscle Project at MIT
• Nitinol Shape Memory Metal Applications

Wearables

• The MIT Wearable Computing Web Page

Exoskeletons

• Exoskeleton from the ReBoot Cartoon
• Hand Force Feedback Systems

Parts for Robot Builders

• Circuit Specialists Mail Order Electronics
• Mouser Mail Order Electronics
• Digikey Mail Order Electronics
• Wirz Electronics Sonars, hbridges, PICs, etc.
• Mondo Muscle Wires & Electric Pistons
• 80/20 Modular Framing Components
• Novasoft Mekatronix Products, motor control, robots, etc.
• Precision Navigation, Inc. Vector-2X Electronic Compass Module

Robot Groups & Clubs

• C.R.A.S.H. Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston
• Robot Group in Austin
• Seattle Robotics Society
• International Robotics Club
• San Francisco Robotics Society of America
• Triangle Amateur Robotics - Raleigh, NC
• Groupe Neuchatelois de Robotique in Swizerland
• Dallas Personal Robotics Group - Dallas, TX
• Portland Area Robotics Society - Portaland, OR
• Northern New Mexico Robotics Group - Los Alamos, NM
• Twin Cities Robotics Group - St. Paul, MN

Robot and Automation Trade Organizations

• The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group
• The Robotics Industries Association
• Association of Laboratory Automation

Robot Search Engine Results

• Yahoo Recreation/Toys/Robots
• Yahoo Mechanical_Engineering/Robotics
• Excite Science/Engineering/Robots

Robotics at Universities

• Internetworked Control of Scalable Direct Drive Robots
• Robotics Laboratory at Laval University
• Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics
• Autonomous Robotics Team at West Virginia University
• Microrobot Ants at MIT
• Boston University
• Univ of Central FL IEEE Robotics Chapter
• Univ of S. CA Robotics Research Lab
• Univ of Manchester
• Stanford Robotics Lab
• Univ of Indiana
• Univ of Mass Robotics
• UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
• Univ Texas at Arlington Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Team
• Washington State Robotics
• General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Lab
• Central R&D Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics St.Petersburg, Russia
• Dr. Johann Borenstein U. of Michigan Advanced Technologies Lab
• Anita Flynn's Home Page at MIT AI
• Virginia Tech autonomus ground vehicle

AI, GA, CA, Neural Nets,

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Genetic Programming Notebook
• Artificial Life Online
• The AI CDROM from Network Cybernetics includes info on:
• Artificial Life
• Neural Networks
• Cellular Automata
• Expert Systems
• Fuzzy Logic
• Genetic Algorithms
• Robotics
• Natural Language Processing
• Chaos and Fractals
• More . . .
• AXM Corporation Artificial Intelligence and the Internet.
• Robotics, Learning, Chaos, Complexity, etc. by Mark Dalton

Radio Data links

• North Country Radio - video and audio transceivers
• Radio Data Link from Arrick Robotics

BEAM Robots

• Scott's Robotics Page
• The official WWW site of the BEAM Robot Games
• Solarbotics Beam Robotics Resource

Teleoperated Web Robots & On-Line Cameras

• Telerobot at the University of Western Australia
• The Mercury project does robotic tele-excavation
• Remote autonomous telescope at the University of Bradford
• Mercury Teleoperated Robotic Excavation Project
• Remote garden at Ars Electronica Center in Austria
• NASA Telerobotics Program
• Teleoperated Robot in Australia

Robot Art, Puppets, Animatronics

• ULLANTA Performance Robotics
• Chris Hillman's Animatronics Site
• Animal Makers Inc. animatronic puppets
• The Art of Motion Control
• The Sculpturing Robot Project at Delft University of Technology
• Telerobotic machine controllable through the web for art context

Circuits & Electronic kits

• Tomi Engdahl's electronics info page
• BOTBoard kits based on the HC11
• Wirz Electronics, Bulk Buys
• Parallax Basic Stamps, PIC processors, etc
• The Chip Directory
• Bruce McKibben's Electronic Design Automation links
• Handy Board 6811-based controller for robotics
• The Mini Board Technical Reference
• RainBow Kits
• Ramseye Electronics
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive
• Univ of Alberta Circuit Cookbook
• Marvin Green's Bot Board

Printed Circuit Boards

• The PCB FAQ
• The starting point for any CAD related research on the Internet
• AP Circuits, Quick PC Board Services
• PCB Designers Den by George Patrick
• Bruce McKibben's Electronic Design Automation links
• Printed Circuit Prototyping On-Line Book

Robotics Mailing Lists

• Hero Robot Owners
• Dallas Personal Robotics

Robotics for the Disabled

• KISS Institute Supplementary Wheelchair Controller
• Robotics Aids for the Disabled by.Johann Borenstein
• All Terrain Wheelchairs
• Sensory Feedback project

Microcontrollers, Embedded, Desktop Computers

• Jeff Frohwein's GameBoy Tech Page
• PIC FTP site by the University of Manchester
• Review of Atmel Flash Microcontrollers and the MITE ATM52 Programmer
• Journal of Computer Controlled Systems - PC/104, ISA, STD, VXI buses
• Tons of links to computer parts vendors from CompUSA

Motors and Motor Control

• Motorola Motor Tutorial
• FerretTronics Servo Controller Chips and Software
• Hacking a Servo by Kevin Ross
• MaxCim Brushless DC Motors and Digital Speed Controllers
• On-Line gearmotor sizing program by Precision MicroDynamics
• The difference between Stepper motors, Servos, RC Servos
• MOSFET H-Bridge Schematic & Theory Eugene Blanchard
• Tower Hobbies sells RC Servo Motors
• Pulley Reducers by Roger Arrick
• Using Disk Drive Stepper Motors by Tomi Engdahl
• AVEOX Motors for Remote Control Planes and Cars
• The Control of Stepper Motors by Douglas W. Jones
• Controlling Stepper Motors
• Brushless motor FAQ from AVEOX
• MicroMo Gear Motors
• RC Servo Motor Basics by Ahmet ONAT
• The Motor FAQ

Sensors, Input Devices

• The IR Object Detection System by HVW
• Merlin Stretch Sensors
• Line Following by Arturo Falck
• Dinsmore digital compass
• Virtual Library page on SONAR by Ashley Walker
• Marshall Electronics cameras, displays, lenses
• Tomi Engdahl's Optoelectronics Page
• Sharp IR Sensor Hack for Analog Distance Measurement
• Micropower Impulse Radar (MIR)
• Roganti's Inclinometer
• Electrolytic Tilt Sensors and Tilt Systems
• Homebrew Sonar
• Sonar with the 6.270 board
• Wirz Electronics sells Polaroid Sonars, hbridges, PICs, etc.
• Connectix QuickCam Drivers, Hacking, etc.
• Sharp IR Sensors
• IR Remote Control Information at Cornell
• Precision Navigation, Inc. Vector-2X Electronic Compass Module
• Interfacing to the Vector 2X Compass
• DLPS Optical Ranging for AGVs

Walking Robots

• Eric Naus's 4-legged Walking Robot
• Frank Scott's Hexapod Robots
• Walking Machine Catalog in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Autonomous Modular Walking Vehicle at University of Waterloo
• The Poly-PEDAL Laboratory
• Roganti's Walking BiPed, HexWalker, QuadraPed
• Walking Robots Group at U of FL
• MIT Leg Laboratory
• Robbie the Running Robot
• Learning to Walk by by Malcolm Ryan
• Biologists probe animal motion
• Boadicea: A Small, Pneumatic Walking Robot

Robot Games

• Robot Odyssey
• Robot Battle, a quickly-evolving programming game
• Giant robot games newsgroup
• Activision's Mechwarrior
• Rocky O'Leary's Battletech Page with tons of images

Robotics Simulation

• Giovanni Legnani 3D kinematics and dynamics
• Robot Simulations Ltd, Workspace robot simulation software
• NASA JSC Automation Robotics and Simulation Division

Vision Related

• Vision System Using the Tyco Video Cam
• Micro Video Coin-sized video cameras & transmitters
• Vision CMOS cameras
• The Car Cam by Albert Putnam
• Hacking the tyco video camera
• Low Resolution Vision System
• CMU Computer Vision
• Vision-Based Robotics At Notre Dame
• Vision Chip Directory

Some Great Robots and Web Pages

• The Amazing Bickford by Gene Sherman
• Steven Bolt's Great Robots
• Tony Montana "TRON" Robots in Swizerland
• Hollingsworth Fully Autonomous Floor Cleaning Robot
• Robosaurus
• Tri-Wheel Robot by Doug Carlson
• Neurotic Robotics
• The MOWBOT Project
• Jay's Robot Page and Building Instructions
• Ray's Robotic Racers
• Roganti's Robotics Zone
• Hero Robot Information & FAQ by Donnie V. Savage
• Fractal Shape Changing Robots from Robodyne Cybernetics
• Little Ricci 2 Non-computer Based Robot
• Shadow Robot Group, Air Muscle, Biped Walker

Robots in Hazardous Enviroments and Underwater

• Perry Tritech Subsea Vehicles
• INUKTUN - modular components for hazardous environments
• UK Robotics
• R.O.V. Technologies, Inc Nuclear Underwater Equipment
• RoboProbe Technologies - Pipe Inspection, Nuclear, Emergency, etc
• KISS Institute Dinky Robot In Pool

Some Robotics Companies

• Robotics Design Company
• Angelus Research Robotic & AI Products
• Animated Objects Robot images, games, walkers
• Tag Mobile Robotics and Sensors
• The Shadow Robot Group

Your tax dollars doing robotics work

• NRaD Robotics Activities
• NASA JSC Automation Robotics and Simulation Division

Robot-Related Newsgroups

• comp.robotics.misc All aspects of robots and their applications.
• comp.ai Artificial intelligence discussions.
• comp.ai.alife Research about artificial life.
• comp.ai.fuzzy Fuzzy set theory, aka fuzzy logic.
• comp.ai.genetic Genetic algorithms in computing.
• comp.ai.nat-lang Natural language processing by computers.
• comp.ai.neural-nets All aspects of neural networks.
• comp.ai.vision Vision processing.
• comp.cog-eng Cognitive engineering.
• comp.home.automation Home automation devices, setup, sources, etc.
• comp.lang.prolog Discussion about PROLOG.
• comp.realtime Issues related to real-time computing.
• comp.arch.embedded Embedded microcontrollers.
• comp.speech Speech processing
• rec.games.mecha Giant robot games.
• rec.models.rc Radio-controlled models for hobbyists.
• rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc Packet radio and other digital radio modes.
• rec.toys.lego Discussion of Lego, Duplo (and compatible) toys.
• sci.engr.control The engineering of control systems.
• sci.engr.mech The field of mechanical engineering.
• sci.image.processing Scientific image processing and analysis.
• sci.nanotech Self-reproducing molecular-scale machines. (Moderated)

Robot Related FAQs

• Polaroid Sonar FAQ Wirz
• Brushless motor FAQ from AVEOX
• The Robotics FAQ
• Robot Competetion FAQ by NCC
• The Lego FAQ
• Powerglove FAQ by J. Eric Townsend
• Parallel Port FAQ by Zhahai Stewart
• The Motor FAQ
• Hero Robot FAQ by Donnie V. Savage
• 8051, 68hc11, COP8, Micro FAQ
• Realtime computing FAQ
• Homebuilt hardware FAQ
• The PCB FAQ

Unsorted
Charlotte Robot from McDonald/Douglas
Automation & Process Control
SMC Robotics Forum
Design Automation
Eurobots
Jim's Robot Page
Speech
CMU NavLab
Digital Signal Processing
ProtoCAM Rapid prototyping
Signal Processing Information Base
Research Group Autonomous Mobile Robots
Alex Ferworn's research page
Univ of Alberta Circuit Cookbook
Univ of Washington Biorobotics Lab
Cambridge Univ Speech, Vision & Robots
Univ of Waterloo 16,000 useful circuits

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