Learning LEGO Mindstorms EV3

Build and create interactive, sensor-based robots using your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit

About This Book

• Optimize the use of multiple sensors to build a robot that navigates and interacts with its environment
• Work with both the Home Edition and the Educational Edition of the LEGO EV3 Mindstorms kit
• A practical guide with step-by-step building instructions to help you create your very own robot

Who This Book Is For

This book is for the hobbyists, builders, and programmers who want to build and control their very own robots beyond the capabilities provided with the LEGO EV3 kit. You will need the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit for this book. The book is compatible with both the Home Edition and the Educational Edition of the kit. You should already have a rudimentary knowledge of general programming concepts and will need to have gone through the basic introductory material provided by the official LEGO EV3 tutorials.

What You Will Learn

• Design a robot for optimum navigation and place sensors for optimal calibration
• Control multiple robots through a master robot
• Decipher the advanced programs developed by LEGO
• Account for weight and balance issues in your design
• Calibrate the sensors using buttons on the robot
• Utilize core programming concepts such as loops, case structures, calculations, variables, and arrays
• Enhance your programs with proportional and PID control

In Detail

The LEGO EV3 is a programmable LEGO brick that can control different motors and take input from buttons and numerous sensors, allowing you to build sophisticated robots from a simple children's system of modular bricks. You can build your very own robot using your EV3 kit, but there is a lack of good documentation in regards to the details of robot building!

This book is a practical guide that will show you how to advance beyond the basic lessons included in your EV3 kit, combine core programming commands, and implement tested design principles when building your own robot. You will become familiar with resources beyond your EV3 kit and enhance your robot designs.

使用您的LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3套件，建立並創造互動式、基於感應器的機器人。

關於本書：
- 最佳化多個感應器的使用，建立能夠在環境中導航並與之互動的機器人。
- 同時適用於LEGO EV3 Mindstorms套件的家庭版和教育版。
- 提供逐步建構指南，協助您創建自己的機器人。

本書適合對於超越LEGO EV3套件所提供功能的愛好者、建造者和程式設計師。閱讀本書前，您需要擁有LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3套件。本書適用於套件的家庭版和教育版。您應該已經對於一般程式設計概念有基本的了解，並且需要通過官方LEGO EV3教程提供的基礎介紹材料。

您將學到：
- 設計最佳導航的機器人，並放置感應器以進行最佳校準。
- 透過主機機器人控制多個機器人。
- 解讀LEGO開發的高級程式。
- 在設計中考慮重量和平衡問題。
- 使用機器人上的按鈕校準感應器。
- 利用核心程式設計概念，如迴圈、案例結構、計算、變數和陣列。
- 透過比例和PID控制增強您的程式。

詳細內容：
LEGO EV3是一個可編程的LEGO積木，可以控制不同的馬達並從按鈕和多個感應器接收輸入，讓您能夠從簡單的兒童模塊積木系統中建立複雜的機器人。您可以使用EV3套件建立自己的機器人，但是在機器人建造的細節方面缺乏良好的文檔！

本書是一本實用指南，將向您展示如何超越您的EV3套件所包含的基礎課程，結合核心程式設計指令，並在建立自己的機器人時實施經過驗證的設計原則。您將熟悉超越EV3套件的資源，並增強您的機器人設計。