This document provides an introduction to robotics and microcontrollers like Arduino. It defines a robot as a device that can substitute for humans in places they cannot access, and lists common types as industrial automatons, humanoids, and AI bots. The document explains that robots work by sensing their environment, processing the situation, searching for rules to manipulate it, executing rules, and surviving changing conditions via a microcontroller brain. It provides examples of microcontroller manufacturers and describes the Arduino open-source hardware and software platform. Finally, it gives a basic line-following robot example to illustrate robot programming concepts.

1. INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS
AND
MICROCONTROLLERS(ARDUINOES)
BY
ANAND RONALD K
STUDENT
DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONICS
HINDUSTHAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY

2. ROBOT
 WHAT IS A ROBOT?
 A ROBOT IS A DEVICE USED FOR HUMAN
SUBSTITUTION AND ENTERTAINMENT BY HUMANS
IN PLACES WHERE HUMANS POSSIBLY CANNOT
ACCESS IN PERSON
 TYPES OF ROBOTS:
 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATONS
 HUMANOIDS
 AI BOTS
 BASIC PROTOTYPES

3. HOW ROBOTS WORK?
 SENSE THE ENVIRONMENT (INPUT)
 SEE THE SITUATION (PROCESSING)
 SEARCH FOR ADAPTATION RULE (MANIPULATION)
 EXECUTE COMPLIED RULE (EXECUTION/OUTPUT)
 SURVIVE CONDITIONS (CYCLE BACK)
THIS PROCESS IS CARRIED OUT BY
MICROPROCESSOR PLACED IN THE
MICROCONTROLLER OF THE ROBOT
HENCE THE MICROCONTROLLER IS CALLED AS
BRAIN OF ROBOT

4. MICROPROCESSORS
 MANUFACTURERS:
 INTEL
 ATMEL
 ZIGOS
 MOTOROLA
 PHILIPS
 HUAWEI

5. What is Arduino?
 Physical computing
platform
 Open source
 “Hardware Abstracted”
Wiring Language
 USB programmable
 Large community
 Inexpensive (Rs.1300/-
)

6. Arduino Board Overview

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10. ARDUINO

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13. SHIELDS FOR ARDUINO

14. EVEN MORE SHIELDS……

15. Fingerprint Scanner
SENSORS
Gas Sensor Temp & Humidity
Flex Sensor
Geiger Counter

16. Sensors
Photo/thermistor, infrared, force sensitive resistor, Hall effect,
Piezo, tilt sensor..

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18. Lets consider an example
 Line follower
 What it does?
 It follows a line either black in white surface or white
in black surface
 How?
 It uses IR sensor to analyze the color of the path and
follows the algorithm/program fed to it

19. Working (tracing of white path)
 IR searches reflection
 The direction from which the reflected light comes is
provided to the m.p
 M.p delivers command to m.c
 M.c by differential drive turns the robot towards that
direction
 And vice versa for black line tracing

21. Line follower

23. What you need to be a robot creator n
enthusiasist!...
 Lots of interest and dedication
 Basic electronics
 Some knowledge in digital electronics
 Keen observation for picking mechanisms from daily
life
 To be unique you need to be different
 And also a purse with money 

27. THANKS TO ALL