Table of Contents

Preface 1. An Introduction to Stiquito, the Book, and the Kit (James M. Conrad). 2. Stiquito: A Small, Simple, Inexpensive Hexapod Robot (Jonathan W. Mills). 3. Building Stiquito II and Tensipede (Jonathan W. Mills). 4. Increasing Stiquito's Loading Capacity (John K. Estell, Thomas A. Owen, and Craig A. Szezublewski). 5. Boris: A Motorless Six-Legged Walking Machine (Roger G. Gilbertson). 6. A PC-Based Controller for Stiquito Robots (Jonathan W. Mills). 7. An M68HC11 Microcontroller-Based Stiquito Controller (James M. Conrad and Mohan Nanjundan). 8. An M68HC11-Based Stiquito Colony Communication System (James M. Conrad, Gregory Lee Evans, and Joyce Ann Binam). 9. A General-Purpose Controller for Stiquito (Shyamsundar Palleto). 10. SCORPIO: Hardware Design (John K. Estell, Timothy A. Muszynski, Thomas A. Owen, Steven R. Snodgrass, Craig A. Szezublewski, and Jason A. Thomas). 11. SCORPIO: Software Design (John K. Estell, Christopher A. Baumgartner, and Quan D. Luong). 12. Lukasiewicz' Insect: The Role of Continuous-Valued Logic in a Mobile Robot's Sensors, Control, and Locomotion (Jonathan W. Mills). 13. Stiquito, a Platform for Artificial Intelligence (Matthew C. Scott). 14. Cooperative Behaviors of Autonomous Mobile Robots (Susan A. Mengel, James M. Conrad, Lance Hankins, and Roger Moore). 15. The Simulation of a Six-Legged Autonomous Robot Guided by Vision (Pauto W.C. Maciet). 16. The Future for Nitinol-Propelled Walking Robots (Mark W. Tilden). Appendix A: Author Biographies. Appendix B: An Analog Driver Circuit for Nitinol-Propelled Walking Robots. Appendix C: Sources of Materials for Stiquito. Appendix D: Technical Characteristics of Flexinol Actuator Wires. Index.