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Control systems and robots

Any control system works in a similar way to a human being. That means, we receive information from the outside world thanks to our senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) our brain processes this information and through our muscles or our voice we perform different actions.

The same happens with control systems: they receive information from the environment thanks to different sensors, they process this information in  controller boards (like Arduino) and give a response using different actuators.

A robot is an autonomous machine capable of:

  • sensing its environment,
  • carrying out operations to make decisions 
  • performing actions in the real world.

So the main elements in every robot, as we learned in programming,  will be:

  • Input: ininformation thisreceived caseby we call "sensors"
  • Process: to perform operations/ make decisions with this input. This is made by the "controller" board.
  • Output: inresponse thisproduced caseby we call "actuators"

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