In this post, I would like to mention some of my favorite books available to learn and master robotics.
1. springer’s handbook of robotics
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bruno siciliano is a professor of control and robotics at the university of naples federico ii in italy, president of the ieee robotics and automation society, and a member of both ieee and asme.
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oussama khatib is professor of computer science at stanford university in the united states, chairman of the international robotics research foundation, member of ieee, and winner of the japan robot association research and development award.
key issues
- fundamentals of robotics
- robot structures
- sensing and perception
- handling and interfaces
- mobile robotics and distributed
- field and service robotics
- realistic, human-centered robotics
2. robotics, vision and control: fundamental algorithms in matlab
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peter corke is a distinguished professor in the faculty of vision robotics science and engineering at queensland university of technology (qut), school of electrical engineering & robotics.
key issues
- fundamentals of robotics
- kinematics and dynamics of robotic arms
- mobile robots
- artificial vision
- control based on vision
3. probabilistic robotics
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sebastian thrun is an associate professor in the department of computer science at stanford university and director of the stanford ai lab.
wolfram burgard is associate professor and director of the autonomous intelligent systems research laboratory at the department of computer science at the university of freiburg.
dieter fox is associate professor and director of the state estimation and robotics lab in the department of computer science and engineering at the university of washington.
key issues
- introduction to probabilistic robotics
- recursive state estimation
- gaussian filters
- nonparametric filters
- motion of the robot</li
- location of mobile robots
- location of grids and monte carlo
- mapping of occupation grids, slam, markov division processes
4. Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control (3rd Edition)
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john craig has a doctorate. from stanford in engineering. He is the author of “Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics & control”, which is a leading university textbook in the field of robotics engineering. He has researched hoof and shoe systems for the past 20 years and has been a speaker at the International Hoof Summit in Cincinnati and other veterinary/farrier venues. He is the lead software developer for the Metron imaging system used for digital radiography and other veterinary imaging modalities.
key issues
- fundamentals of robotics
- kinematics and dynamics of robotics
- path generation
- robot programming languages
- offline programming systems
5. modern robotics mechanics, planning and control
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kevin m. lynch is a professor and chair of the department of mechanical engineering at northwestern university. He is director of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems and a member of the Northwest Institute for Complex Systems. his research focuses on the dynamics, motion planning, and control of robot manipulation and locomotion; self-organizing multi-agent systems; and physically interacting human-robot systems.
franco c. park received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from mit and his doctorate. in applied mathematics from Harvard University. From 1991 to 1995 he was an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine. since 1995 he has been a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at seoul national university, where he is currently chair of the department. His research interests are robot mechanics, planning and control, vision and image processing, and related areas of applied mathematics.
key issues
- rigid body movements
- kinematics and dynamics
- path generation
- motion planning
- robot control </li
- grasp and manipulate
- wheeled mobile robots
6. introduction to autonomous mobile robots
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roland siegwart: roland siegwart is professor of autonomous systems and director of the center for product design at the institute for robotics and intelligent systems, eth zürich.
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Illah Reza Nourbakhsh: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Futures of Robots and co-author of Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (both published by MIT Press).
davide scaramuzza: davide scaramuzza is a professor of robotics at the university of zurich and an adjunct professor in the master’s program in robotics systems and control at eth zurich. He directs the laboratory for robotics and perception at the computer science department of the University of Zurich.
key issues
- introduction to mobile robotics
- locomotion
- kinematics of mobile robots
- perception
- location of mobile robots
- planning and navigation
7. robotics modeling, planning and control
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bruno siciliano is a professor of control and robotics at the university of naples federico ii in italy, president of the ieee robotics and automation society, and a member of both ieee and asme. lorenzo sciavicco is a professor of control and robotics at the third university of rome in italy. He has been one of the pioneers in robot control research. Luigi Villani is Associate Professor of Control and Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Giuseppe Oriolo is Associate Professor of Control and Robotics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza ” in Italy.
key issues
- the basics: kinematics, statics and path planning
- actuators, sensors and control units.
- dynamics and motion control of robot manipulators
- mobile robots
- motion planning
8. scheduling algorithms
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steven m. Lavalle is an American computer scientist and professor at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu. He was also one of the early founders and chief scientist of Oculus VR until it was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
key issues
- introduction to discrete planning
- motion planning
- decision theoretic planning
- planning under differential constraints
9. robot motion theory principles, algorithms and implementations
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howie choosethowie choicet is an associate professor at the robotics institute at carnegie mellon university. kevin m. lynchkevin m. Lynch is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. Seth Hutchinson Seth Hutchinson is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. George A. kantorgeorge kantor is a project scientist at the center for the fundamentals of robotics, robotics institute, carnegie mellon university. wolfram burgard wolfram burgard is professor of computer science and director of the autonomous intelligent systems research laboratory at the university of freiburg. Lydia E. Kavrakilydia E. kavraki is a professor of computer science and bioengineering at rice university. sebastian thrunsebastian thrun is an associate professor in the department of computer science at stanford university and director of the stanford ai lab.
key issues
- error algorithms
- potential functions
- cell decomposition
- kalman filtering
- Bayesian methods
- robot dynamics
- path planning
- non-holonomic and underactuated systems
10. mechanics of robotic manipulation (intelligent robotics and autonomous agents)
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Mateo T. mason, professor, computer science and roboticscarnegie mellon university
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key issues
- manipulation
- kinematics
- kinematic rendering
- kinematics manipulation
- quasi-static manipulation
- dynamic
- dynamic manipulation