Dr. Chi N. Thai is an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering of the University of Georgia where he lectures undergraduate and graduate courses on Systems Modeling, Multispectral Machine Vision and Robotics. His formal training includes B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, both at Northrop University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of California at Davis. He had done research in adaptive gear shifting for agricultural tractors, optimal hull design for boat tractors, characterization and modeling of quality of agricultural products using spectrometry and hyperspectral imaging. In recent years, he expanded his research and teaching interests into developing embedded plant health sensing packages for land- and air-based autonomous robotic systems and also in applying robotics to STEM teaching and learning at all age levels.

2nd edition has been heavily expanded with over 170 pages of updated and new material.

Documents the Robotis Bioloid and CM-9 robotic systems for self-learners

Presents ZigBee communications programming for bot-to-bot and PC-to-bot

Web-based multimedia illustrates robotics concepts, code implementations and actual resulting robot behaviors

Includes treatment of wheel-based and walking-type robots