Microcontrollers in Robotics

Microcontroller is a system-level component of an electronic circuit through which output based on the input received from the physical world through input-output devices like sensors is determined. It can be assumed to be analogous to the human brain. It has created great impact on mankind through its various applications—in household applications like washing machine, microwave oven, and air-conditioner; office applications like photocopy machines, computers and printing machines; industrial applications like manufacturing robots, automated warehouse trolleys, weighing machines, and automated teller machines. All the applications of an embedded system mentioned in Sect. 1.5 find the use of microcontrollers.