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... on the robot, there's also the problem of sending the obtained images from the on-board computer to the remote computer, using the data rate more adjusted to the capacity ofthe wireless ... from the serial port interrupt routine, the first byte ofthe answer identifies the code ofthe executed command. The user commands should be associated with user actions like pressing software ... actuators, other factory resources, production management software, and so on. The software discussed in this chapter is used in all the examples presented in the book, and is the core of several...