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This article is from the Robotics FAQ,
by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
17 Robotics Books p1
The readership of this group ranges from the beginner to experienced
robot designers and users. Accordingly, this list covers the gamut as
well. I would like to include net resources as well such as papers or
tech reports so send me your sites!
Some of these books may be out of print. Check with your local
bookseller or try a used bookstore that provides a search service.
"Advanced Robot Systems"
Mark J. Robillard
Howard Sams and Co. 1984
"Autonomous Robot Vehicles"
I.J. Cox and G.T. Wilfong (eds)
New York, Springer-Verlag, 1990
Collection of seminal papers on autonmous robot vehicles.
"Build Your Own Universal Computer Interface"
Bruce Chubb
TAB Books
"Control System Design Guide"
George Ellis
ISBN 0-12-237470-3 Covers hardware,software and theory of ordinary PID
control.
"Directed Sonar Sensing for Mobile Robot Navigation"
by John J. Leonard and Hugh F. Durant-Whyte
Kluwer Academic Press
Boston (1992)
ISBN 0-7923-9242-6
An expansion on John's thesis work at Oxford.
"The Illusion Of Life, Lifelike Robotics"
by Gene Poor
Published by Creative Learning Systems.
It has lots of pictures and shows lots of different companies and
their animatronic designs and what is used to control them. If anyone
has further information on this book please send email to me. Thanks.
"Industrial Robots: Computer Interfacing and Control, Wesley E. Snyder"
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.
LOC # TS191.8.S67
Fair amount of detail on inductrial robot controllers and connecting
to them.
"Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the Coming
Robotopia"
Frederik L. Schodt
Kodansha International
New York, NY 1988
Lots of interesting views of robots in Japan and Japan's fascination
with robots.
"Interfacing Test Circuits With Single-Board Computers"
Robert H. Luetzow
TAB Books
"Machines That Walk"
Shin-Min Song and Kenneth J Waldron
ISBN 0-262-19274-8
Like it says: legged locomotion. Focus is on the OSU Adaptive
Suspension Vehicle.
"A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation"
R. M. Murray, Z. Li, and S. S. Sastry
CRC Press, 1994
For more information, see [22]http://avalon.caltech.edu/~murray/mls
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