Robot Control Teaching with a State Machine-based Design Method

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 234-243

  Levin, Ilya ^a   Kolberg, Eli ^a   Reich, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC STATE MACHINE (ASM); FINITE STATE MACHINE (FSM);

CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MACHINE DESIGN; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ROBOTICS; STUDENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

TEACHING;

EID: 1842681704     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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