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Robot Micro Controller

A robot microcontroller acts as the brain of the robot by collecting information from sensors and switches as inputs, executing a programmed logic, and controlling outputs like motors and lights. Microcontrollers are useful integrated circuits that can control parameters based on inputs in many applications beyond just robotics. While less powerful than computers, microcontrollers have all the needed processing and memory components incorporated into a single chip, making them suitable for applications that don't require a full computer like alarm clocks or robots.

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Robot Micro Controller

A robot microcontroller acts as the brain of the robot by collecting information from sensors and switches as inputs, executing a programmed logic, and controlling outputs like motors and lights. Microcontrollers are useful integrated circuits that can control parameters based on inputs in many applications beyond just robotics. While less powerful than computers, microcontrollers have all the needed processing and memory components incorporated into a single chip, making them suitable for applications that don't require a full computer like alarm clocks or robots.

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ROBOT MICROCONTROLLER

A robot microcontroller is basically the brain of the robot. It is used to collect the information from various input devices such as sensors, switches and others. Then it executes a program and in accordance with it controls the output devices such as motors, lights and others. As you can understand, microcontrollers are very useful devices that can be used in many applications not only robotics. Actually, they are used almost everywhere where it is required to control some output parameters in correspondence with some input parameters in other words - to execute a logic. Are they used in computers? No, they are not. The computing done in PCs is much more complicated. So PCs have separate processing units, memories, etc. Microcontrollers have all needed things to do the computing incorporated into one IC (integrated chip). Of course, microcontroller's performance can seem like nothing if compared to that of a PC. Nevertheless, there are many applications where that is enough. Let's take an alarm clock as an example. You have to show the time, ring when needed and control it with buttons. You don't need a PC to do that. The same goes for robots.

MCU stands for Microcontroller Unit. Basically this is the microcontroller.There are many manufacturers, the most popular are Atmel and Microchip technology. They manufacture accordingly Atmel AT series MCUs and PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller) series MCUs.
There are many other companies that manufacture microcontrollers, many of them though are made with a specific application in mind.

So, what are those functions a robot

microcontroller needs? At least one input with an ADC function. ADC stands for analogue to digital converter. It can be called colloquially as an analog input. Basically, you can connect a device that gives an analogue signal, like a range finder, and the ADC will convert this signal into digital format. This is required so that robot microcontroller could operate with the signal. Also, you will need digital I/O ports. You can deliver a digital signal to these ports. That would be like yes or no, 0 or 1, etc. With these you can control almost everything - diodes, servos, etc. Also it is handy if there are integrated timers, clock and other features.

SHIVAM AGARWAL S.E. ELECTRONICS

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