A good general coverage.

This book is a good overview of robotics design and development. My main dissapointment with it was the focus on the controller which is a commercial unit you would need to purchase in order to use the code contained in the book. The unit is expensive to say the least for what it is and I found myself deciding that I would simply adapt what I could to my own controllers and treat the volume as a general overview.

I did like it's chapter on multi-directional wheels and some of the code showed some straight forward ways of going about robot routine programming.

Overall though the book is not going to be overly useful to the robotics designer unless your hell bent on purchasing the controller it promotes.

In conclusion it's a uni students book, where the Uni will have brought a few of the controllers for the students to interface too and program. For the rest of us, it's just bits and pieces of information, where without the controller it will only be about 45% value.

Sean A. Curtin