This volume explains how to build a six-legged robot that walks and responds to its environment using state-of-the-art technology and advanced artificial intelligence. The book discusses mechanical construction, electronics, PIC programming, use of sensors and robot-intelligence routines. A software chapter includes routines to co-ordinate the servos for walking, monitoring the sensors and the output and control of sound and light. The book ends with a special section on how readers might experiment to evolve the robot further and make it their own.
This volume explains how to build a six-legged robot that walks and responds to its environment using state-of-the-art technology and advanced artific...
These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education.
These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research par...
Traders and sophisticated investors are increasingly finding that the traditional market forecasting methods of fundamental analysis or technical analysis appear to be producing contradictory predictions, with fundamental analysts suggesting that the market is ready for a downturn and technical analysts saying that it will expand further. As a result of these contrasting signals, many traders and investors are turning to a combination of new scientific theories and investment psychology.
Traders and sophisticated investors are increasingly finding that the traditional market forecasting methods of fundamental analysis or technical anal...
Health management within organizations is an issue which is gaining in significance. Not only are there increasing incidents of litigation related to workplace health, but organizations are now able to really count the costs of inadequate provision on their bottom line profitability, particularly through the price of absenteeism, both genuine and non-genuine. Based on a BUPA CBI survey of unpublished data from large scale studies in health management and risk assessment, this book is a practical guide for managers charged with creating a healthy workplace - healthy in terms of mental,...
Health management within organizations is an issue which is gaining in significance. Not only are there increasing incidents of litigation related to ...
Tourism has been identified as one of the few potential growth sectors in the mature economies. This volume provides a detailed study of the industry and of its contribution to economic development in Europe. This diverse region offers a wide range of examples of the potential and limitations of tourism as a vehicle for development, and of government policies for tourism. This, the third edition of the title includes a new country case study chapter on the Republic of Ireland. Together with the general review chapters and the existing ten country case studies the book provides a comprehensive...
Tourism has been identified as one of the few potential growth sectors in the mature economies. This volume provides a detailed study of the industry ...
Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs.
Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of Afr...
This collection of translated texts is designed to introduce those interested in Graeco-Roman and Jewish culture to the realities of Jewish life outside Israel in the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the ending of the Jewish Patriarchate by the Christian emperors of Rome in the middle of the fifth century. Designed for student use, a feature of the collection is the prominence given to papyri and inscriptions. Composed in accordance with Graeco-Roman epigraphic conventions but written by Jews, these texts, some only recently discovered, should prove a rich...
This collection of translated texts is designed to introduce those interested in Graeco-Roman and Jewish culture to the realities of Jewish life ou...
This book describes the many settings in which counselling is used with offenders, victims of crime and criminal justice professionals under stress. It reviews the political pressures which have both limited and encouraged the growth of counselling in criminal justice settings. using case materials, it explores the dilemmas - and the opportunities - for counsellors in criminal justice.
This book describes the many settings in which counselling is used with offenders, victims of crime and criminal justice professionals under stress. I...
