Reference books
The following is a list of references that will be used throughout the course.
Many of these are freely available online.
- [Corke]
P. Corke,
Robotics, Vision & Control.
This book includes plenty of Matlab examples, and is generally a delight to read.
This book is available online via
SpringerLink.
- [SNS]
R. Siegwart, I. Nourbakhsh, and D. Scaramuzza,
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots
MIT Press, 2011
This book is available online via the
Georgia Tech Library or through
IEEExplore.
- [MLS]:
R. Murray, z. Li, and S. Sastry,
A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation,
CRC Press.
(At this link, you'll find a downloadable pdf.)
This book is true to its title - plenty of mathematical rigor here.
- [SHV]:
M. Spong, S. Hutchinson, M. Vidyasagar,
Robot Modelling and Control,
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005.
- [TBF]:
S. Thrun, W. Burgard, and D. Fox,
Probabilistic Robotics,
MIT Press, 2005.
The following is a list of more advanced robotics texts that
deal with issues related to motion planning.
- [Choset]: H. Choset, K. M. Lynch, S. Hutchinson,
G. Kantor, W. Burgard, L. E. Kavraki and S. Thrun,
Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations,
MIT Press, Boston, 2005.
This book is available through
IEEExplore.
- [Latombe]:
Jean-Claude Latombe,
Robot Motion Planning,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
(At this link, you'll find a downloadable pdf.)
- [LaValle]:
Steven M. LaValle,
Planning Algorithms,
Cambridge University Press.
(At this link, you'll find a downloadable pdf.)
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