BEAM Glossary

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Definitions and explanations of BEAM and general robotics terms use as part of the BEAM Wiki.

Also See: Acronyms & Abbreviations

A AND Ackerman Steering Acoustic Action Potential Activate Active Actuators Aesthetics Afferent Alternating Current Amplification Amplifier Amplify Amplitude Analogue Anode Architecture Astable Attack Attenuate Automaton Autonomous Axis Axon Axon hillock B BEAMable BEAMers BEAMish BETS1 Back-EMF Balance Balanced Base Batteries Behaviour Bias Bias point Bicore Experimenters PCBs Bicores Bifurcation Binary Biology Biomimetics Biomorphic Maps Biomorphics Biped Bipolar power supply Bistable Brain Brakes Branch Buffer Burst Bursting neuron C CMOS - Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Capacitively coupled Capacitor Cathode Cellular Automata Central Pattern Generator Central Processing Unit Central nervous system Chain Chaos Charge Charge pump Charger Circuit Clamp (Electronic) Clever-bot Close Code Collector Common Comparator Complementary Convergence Core Coupled oscillators Crawlers Crosstalk Current Cybernetics D Darlington transistor Dead-bug Dead band Decay Decoupling Degrees of Freedom Dendrite Differential Steering Differentiator Digital Diodes Dip switch Direct Current Disable Discharge Discrete component Displacement Drain Driver Dual Inline Package Dumb-bot Duty cycle E Efferent Electret microphone Electromagnet Electromechanical Electronics Embedded bicores Emitter Enable Energize Energized Energy Excite Exclusive OR F Feedback Filter Fliers Flip-Flop Flip-flop Forbidden zone Forward Bias Forward voltage drop Free-forming Frequency G Gain Gait Gate Gear Train

G cont. Gearbox Gearmotor Ground Ground bounce H H-Bridge H-Switch Hack Hackable Hacking Haptic Hardwired Head Helping Hands Hertz Hexapod Hextiles Hierarchical High High/Low Oscillator High Impedance Holonomic Homeostasis Horse & Rider Humanoid Hunting Hybrid Hysteresis I Impedance Indicator Inductance Inductive Inductor Inhibit Integrate and Fire Integrated Circuits Integrator Intelligence Interface Invert Inverter Inverting Isolated BiCore Isolation J Junction L LEDs Leg Legged Lever Light-sensitive Limit switch Linear Living Machines Load Load Current Locomotion Locomotory Logic gate Loop Low M Master/Slave Bicore Master Bicore Mechanics Mechanism Microcontroller Microcore Microphone Microprocessor Mobile Mobility Modulate Modulation Momentary switch Monocore Monostable Motor Bicore Motor Drivers Motor response Motor system Multi-Wheel Steering Multiplexer Multiplexing Multivibrator N NAND NOR Negative logic Nerve Nervous system Network Neural Neural network Neuromorphics Node Noise NuRING Nx O OR Octopod Olfaction Omni-Wheels One shot Open Open Collector Operational Amplifier Ornaments Oscillator Overvoltage P Pain Parabot Parallel circuit Passive Perfboard Phase Phaselock Photo-Bicore Photo-bridge Photo-sensitive Photo Resistors Photophilia Photophobia Phototaxis Phototropic Phototropism Photovore Piezo Pivot Platform Pop Poppers Positive logic Potential Potentiometer Power Power supply

P cont. Pre-amp Printed Circuit Board Process Process Initialization Circuit Process Neutralizing Circuit Processing Processor Program Programmable Programming Proportion Proportional Proprioception Protection diodes Prototype Pull-down Resistor Pull-up Resistor Pulse Frequency Modulation Pulse Width Modulation Pummers Push-button Q Quadcore Quadrature Quadruped Quiescent current R Radio control Rail Random Access Memory Ratiometric Receptor Reflexes Refractory period Regulator Relaxation oscillator Relay Remote Control Reset Resistor Resonance Reverse Bias Revolutions Per Minute Rigter Oscillators Robot Robot Jurassic Park Roboticist Robotics Roller S Saturation Schmitt Inverter Sensation Sense Sensing Sensor Sensor Bicore Sensory-Motor Sensory system Series-parallel circuit Series circuit Servo Shift Short Circuit Signal Sink Sintra Slave Bicore Smart-bot Smokeless Solar Engines Solar power Solar powered Solarroller Solderless Breadboard Solenoid Soma Sonar Sounder Source Source code Speaker Spike Spiking Spiking neuron Spiky Spin Spinal cord Stackable State State Injection Circuit State machine Steady state Steering Stimulus Storage capacitor Straw-bot Stride Subsumption Architecture Switch Symets Symmetry Synapse Synchronous T Tactile Technoscrap Threshold Time Constant Timer Toggle Topology Torque Touch Tracks Transducer Translation Tri-state Trigger Turbots Turning Radius U UniBug Unicore V VBug Variable Resistor Vector Vehicles Very Slow Propagation Artificial Neural Systems Voltage Voltage Divider Voltage Monitor Voltage Regulators Voltage drop W Walker Waveform Weight Wheeled