For Industrial applications requiring defined cooling, high-powered modules, integrated backplane synchronization, Industrial PC based platform offers a good platform to deploy a wide range of analog, digital, motion, vision, and reconfigurable I/O (RIO) applications. Industrial PCs are available from a wide range of vendors and offer PC-based Technology in a more rugged form factor than desktop PCs.

How to Customize?
To customize your industrial PC system, follow these steps

• Choose your LabVIEW controller
• Choose your I/O modules
• Add vision, motion, and Communications to complete your system

System Requirement and Installation

• Intel® Pentium® 4-based PC
• Supported Ethernet options
  1. NI-PCI-8232 GPIB/Gigabit Ethernet
  2. Integrated Intel® Network adapter, using an Intel® 82540, 82559, 82558, or 82550 chipset.
  3. PCI Network adapter, using an Intel® 82540, 82559, 82558, or 82550 chipset.
     *An example of a commercially available board that carries the 82550 chipset is the Intel Pro/100 S.
• Parallel ATA (IDE) Hard-drive (See Hard Drive section below.)
• FAT32 File system on the primary hard drive of the desktop PC (or the equivalently designated boot drive)
• 3.5 inch floppy drive (1.44 MB)
• PS2 Keyboard - (Required when using a LabVIEW Real-Time Format Disk)

Tech Materials (Free)

Robot Behaviors Exploring the T-Maze: Evolving Learning-Like Robot Behaviors using CTRNNs
Humanoid Robotics A Biochemical Subsystem for a Humanoid Robot
Industrial Automation Systems Applying Agents for Engineering of Industrial Automation Systems
Robot Team Cooperation A Descriptive Model of Robot Team and the Dynamic Evolution of Robot Team Cooperation
Kuka Robots For ONU ONU Robotics Technology Center of Excellence, powered by KUKA Robotics Corporation
Augmented reality Annotation System for Robotic Application
Modular Robots Self-Reconfiguration Planning Of Identical Modules
Autonomous robots A New Approach To Robotics
Robotic Mounting Flat Panel Displays With Robotic Mounting
Calibration of Industrial Robots A Photogrammetric Robot Calibration System Based On Off-The-Shelf Low Cost Hardware Components

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Amazon Books

	Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms by Benjamin Erwin Buy new: $20.64 / Used from: $13.00 A good place to start, especially for kids, with Lego Mindstorms
	A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics by Joe Jones Buy new: $20.67 / Used from: $15.13 Very good for programming not so much behavior as control. Language and controller agnostic