Cyberbotics' Robot Curriculum
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[edit] About this book
This book is the result of two master projects. It is currently being transfered on wikibook to be freely available to anyone. This book will remain the main tutorial about the Webots software and the e-puck robot. From time to time a PDF version of this wikibook will be generated with javaLatex and included in the Webots documentation. The Table of Contents used by the software is here: Contents. Please keep that in mind when you contribute to this book.
[edit] Learning about Intelligent Robots
This book is geared toward to students, teachers, hobbyists and researchers interested in intelligent robots. It will help you understanding what robots are, what they can do for you, and most interestingly how to program them. It includes two parts: a short theoretical part and a longer practical part. Practical part is decomposed in one chapter about the computer configuration and five chapters of exercises corresponding to five level of difficulty (see the next section). After reading this book, you should be able to design your own intelligent robots.
[edit] Copyleft
The license this book uses grants free access to its content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, the content of this book can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the book. This book therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.
To fulfill the above goals, the text contained in this book is now released under the GNU Free Documentation License
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