BEAM Glossary

From BEAM Robotics Wiki

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Robotics is an ever growing field. Like every area of special interest, certain terms and expressions have become an intrinsic part of robotics.

These can sometimes become a stumbling block to understanding what is being said and/or done. Especially to newbies. Thus the reason for creating a BEAM Glossary. It will act as a repository of terminology used by BEAMers and others involved in designing, building or experimenting with robots and/or robot related subjects.

Clicking on a particular term listed within the glossary will take you to it's definition, or to an article explaining that term.

NOTE: As a result of the growing number of term included in this glossary, it has become neccesary to devide it into three seaparate pages.

• Terms and expressions beginning with the letters A through M can be found BELOW .

• Terms and expressions beginning with the letters N through Z can be found HERE

• A list of Acronyms, Abbreviations, Prefixes and Suffixes can be found HERE .

[edit] Glossary - A though M

A ABCore AND Ackerman Steering Acoustic Action Potential Activate Activated Activation Active Actuator Aesthetics Afferent Alternating Current Ampere Amplification Amplifier Amplify Amplitude Analog Anode Anthropomorphic Architecture Artificial Intelligence Astable Asymmetry Asynchronous Attack Attenuate Audiotrope Automata Automaton Autonomous Axis Axon Axon hillock B B.I.O. Bug BEAMable BEAMers BEAMish BETS1 Back-EMF Balance Balanced Bandwidth Base Battery Beacon Behavioral Behaviour Bias Bias point Bicore Experimenters PCBs Bicore head Bicores Bifurcation Bilateral Binary Biology Biomech Biomimetics Biomorphic Maps Biomorphics Biped Bipolar power supply Bistable Brain Brake Braking Branch Break Bridge Bridge rectifier Buffer Burst Bursting neuron C CMOS - Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Capaciflector Capacitance Capacitively coupled Capacitor Cathode Cellular Automata Central Pattern Generator Central Processing Unit Central nervous system Chain Chaos Charge Charge pump Charger Charging Circuit Circuit board Clamp (Electronic) Clever Clever-bot Clock Close Closed Code Collector

C cont. Common Comparator Complementary Complex Complex Neuron Contact bounce Control Controller Converge Convergence Core Coupled oscillators Crawlers Crosstalk Current Current Limiting Cybernetics Cycle D DC Offset Darlington transistor Dead-band Dead-bug Decay Decoupling Degrees of Freedom Dendrite Dielectric Differential Steering Differentiator Digital Diode Diode drop Dip switch Direct Current Disable Discharge Discrete Discrete component Displacement Drain Drive Driver Dual Inline Package Dumb-bot Duty cycle E Efferent Electret microphone Electric Electrical Electricity Electromagnet Electromagnetism Electromechanical Electronics Embedded bicores Emitter Enable Energize Energized Energy Environment Epoxy Excite Exclusive NOR Exclusive OR F Fan-out Farad Feedback Feeler Filter Fire Flagwaver Flagwavers Flashing LED Fliers Flip-Flop Floating Forbidden zone Force Forward Bias Forward voltage drop Freeforming Frequency G Gain Gait Gate Gated Gating Gear Train Gearbox Gearmotor Giga- Ground Ground bounce Grounded H H-Bridge H-Switch Hack Hackable Hacking Haptic Hardwired

H cont. Head Heat-shrink tubing Helping Hands & Related Tools Hertz Hexapod Hexcore Hextiles Hierarchical High High/Low Oscillator High Impedance Holonomic Homeostasis Homeostat Homeostatic Horse & Rider Humanoid Hunting Hybrid Hydrotropism Hysteresis I IR detectors Idler Wheel Impedance Inactive Indicator Inductance Induction Inductive Inductor Infrared Inhibit Insectoid Integrate Integrate and Fire Integrated Circuit Integrator Intelligence Intelligent agent Interface Interneuron Invert Inverter Inverting Isolate Isolated BiCore Isolation J Junction L Latch Leg Legged Lever Light-sensitive Light Emitting Diode Limit Switch Line Follower Linear Liquid Crystal Display Living Machines Load Load Current Locomotion Locomotory Logic gate Loop Low M Machine Magbot Majority logic gate Make Master Master/Slave Bicore Master Bicore Mechanical Mechanics Mechanism Mechanoreceptor Microcontroller Microcore Microphone Microprocessor Milliamp-hour Mixed Signal Mobile Mobile robot Mobility Modulate Modulation Momentary switch Monocore Monostable Motor Bicore Motor Control Motor Drivers Motor driven Motor neuron Motor response Multiplexer Multiplexing Multivibrator Muscle Wire

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Please help to grow the BEAM Glossary and the Acronyms & Abbreviations page, by adding to, and expanding upon the definitions and explanations they contain. The more complete they are, the more useful they will be.