Build Your Own Combat Robot

366 Build Your Own Combat Robot
radio systems
allow changing
transmitting, 165
Frequency crystals, 164–165
Frequency modulation (FM),
162, 167–168
Frictional forces, 110
motor torque and, 111
Frictional losses, 63
Full-face masks, 37
Fully autonomous robot, 240
Fun, building bots for, 24
Functions, automating bot, 27
Fuses, 138, 139
blowing, 82–83
Future of robot combat,
330–332
G
Game of compromise, 29–30
Garden tools, 52
Gasoline engines and
electrical noise, 172
Gauntlet event, 13
Gear assemblies, mounting,
122
Gear reduction defined, 104
Gear slop, 122
Gearboxes, 122–124
mounting gear
assemblies, 122
securing gears to shafts,
122–124
Gearmotor, 104
Gears, reverse, 76
Gears, securing to shafts,
122–124
Gel-Cells, 92
Getting started, 21–38
Gladiators, American, 16
Glasses, safety, 36, 37
Go-kart wheels, 52
Gross, Bob, 256
Grudge Match, 10
H
H-bridge, driving with,
134–135
Hammer bots, 228–231
hammer design, 228–231
strategy, 231
Handy Board, 268
Hear, using sensors to allow
robots to, 241–248
Heat
can destroy motors, 72
controlling, 73
physical sizes of motors
and, 72
power and, 68–72
Heating, motor, 72
Hell raisers, 7
Hex-walkers, six-legged, 43
Hexapods are popular robot
style, 43
High-current capacity, relays
should have, 130
High-performance motors, 73
High powered robots,
designing, 115
High-pressure air (HPA), 235
High-pressure pneumatic
systems, 37
High-strength plastics,
184–185
History of robot combat, 7
Hobby controllers,
cheaper, 145
Hobby ESCs, 143–146
in combat robotics,
145–146
current capacity in, 145
Homes, robots in, 332
Horn, servo, 136
Horsepower, peak, 69
Housings, adding motor,
317–319
HPA (high-pressure air), 235
I
ICs (integrated circuits), 338
Idler sprockets, 117
IFI (Innovation First), 147
IFI (Innovation First Isaac )
robot controllers, 175–179
IFI Robotics Isaac operator
interface, 176
IFI Robotics Isaac robot
controllers, frequencies
for, 178
IFI Robotics system, 175
IFI Robotics Victor
controllers, 147
Imahara, Grant, 66–67, 105
Impact rivets, standard, 201
Improvements
performance, 297
traction, 302
Improving sensor input,
techniques for, 249–250
Infrared beacons, 253
Infrared detectors, 287
Infrared LEDs, 287
Infrared Proximity Sensors
Sharp GP2D05, 245
Sharp GP2D15, 245
Infrared range detectors, 301
Infrared Range Sensors
Sharp GP2D02, 245
Sharp GP2D12, 245
Input power, 65
Input, techniques for
improving sensor, 249–250