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MSP430-based Robot Applications

A Guide to Developing Embedded Systems

By
  • Dan Harres, Technical Fellow, Boeing Company, Belleville, IL, USA.

This book provides a careful explanation of the basic areas of electronics and computer architecture, along with lots of examples, to demonstrate the interface, sensor design, programming and microcontroller peripheral setup necessary for embedded systems development. With no need for mechanical knowledge of robots, the book starts by demonstrating how to modify a simple radio-controlled car to create a basic robot. The fundamental electronics of the MSP430 are described, along with programming details in both C and assembly language, and full explanations of ports, timing, and data acquisition. Further chapters cover inexpensive ways to perform circuit simulation and prototyping.

Key features include:

  • Thorough treatment of the MSP430’s architecture and functionality along with detailed application-specific guidance
  • Focuses on electronics, programming and the use of sensor technology to build an embedded system
  • Provides a learn-by-doing experience

With this book you will learn:

  • The basic theory for electronics design
  • Analog circuits
  • Digital logic
  • Computer arithmetic
  • Microcontroller programming
  • How to design and build a working robot
  • Assembly language and C programming
  • How to develop your own high-performance embedded systems application using an on-going robotics application

 

 

Audience
Professional electronics engineers, embedded designers and programmers; students taking a course using microcontrollers. Individuals with an electronics background who may (or may not) have previous experience with microcontrollers, but who are just getting started with the TI MSP430 microcontroller.

Paperback, 416 Pages

Published: March 2013

Imprint: Newnes

ISBN: 978-0-12-397012-1

Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. The Parts of a Robot

        1. Platform
        2. Locomotion
        3. Power Source
        4. Electronics

      3. Building an Inexpensive Robot by Modifying a Radio-Controlled Car
      4. Beginning Electronics

        1. Review of Passive Electronic Circuits
        2. How Do Bipolar Transistors Work?
        3. How Do MOSFET Transistors Work?
        4. The Op Amp Building Block
        5. Comparators, Analog-to-Digital Converters, and Digital-to-Analog Converters
        6. Motor Drives

      5. Computer Arithmetic
      6. Computer Logic
      7. Introducing the MSP430 Microcontroller
      8. Starting to Program - An Introduction to MSP430 Assembler
      9. Building MSP430 Assembler Programs
      10. Introducing C for the MSP430
      11. More C and Mixing C With Assembler
      12. MSP430 Parallel and Serial Ports
      13. MSP430 Timing, Counters, and Interrupts
      14. MSP430 Data Acquisition

        1. Analog-to-Digital Converters
        2. Digital-to-Analog Converters

      15. Inexpensive Ways to Perform Circuit Simulation
      16. Prototyping Circuits
      17. Collision Avoidance

        1. Simple Collision Avoidance - The Searchlight (LED)
        2. More Sophisticated Optical Approaches to Collision Avoidance
        3. Ultrasonic Sensors

      18. Adding a Tachometer
      19. Controlling Things With a Remote
      20. Troubleshooting

    The Working, High-Performance Robot

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