Useful Links

Robotics

Courses (while there are several web-sites for courses on robotics, the following ones contain some notes/handouts)

Robot Manipulators

· Introduction to Robotics, Stanford University

· Introduction to Robotics, USC

· Robotics, SCU

Mobile Robots

· Introduction to Robotics, and Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems, Maja Mataric

· Autonomous Mobile Robots, University of Manchester

· Introduction to Mobile Robotics, UW

· Mobile Robotics, CMU

· Distributed Intelligence in Autonomous Robotics, UTK

On-line Notes

• Modeling and Simulation of Robotic Systems

Resources

• Robotics Links, University of Zurich
• UMass Robotic Resources
• Bookmarks for R.S. Fearing
• Bookmarks for W. Harwin
• NASA robotics resources
• Robotics News (includes a list of robotics competitions)
• Open Source Robotics and AI software
• Europe Mobile Robotics Lab and Companies

LEGO-Handyboard Robotics

• Robot Store (sells MIT handyboard), applications
• Mr.Robot
• Gleason Research (sells MIT Handyboard and Handy cricket)
• MIT Handyboard
• Penn State Abington Robotics Resources
• Lego Robotics at SCRI
• The Unofficial Guide to LEGO^® MINDSTORMS^TM Robots
• LEGO Users Group Network
• LEGO Mindstorm notes
• Building Intelligent Robots Course, Brown University
• Java LEGO robots

MATLAB Tools

Matlab Software for Robot Manipulator Analysis

• Robotics Toolbox for Matlab
• Robotics Toolbox Manual
• Quick Introduction to Robotics Toolbox
• Link Description Examples using MATLAB Robotics Toolbox
• Forward Kinematics Using Symbolic Toolbox of MATLAB mfkinesym.zip
• Symbolic Robotics Toolbox under Matlab robsymbolic.zip
• Robotic Analysis Using Object Oriented Techniques robotoop.zip

Matlab Tutorials

· 3-page Matlab tutorial (PDF)

· Matlab Primer (PDF)

· MATLAB Educational Web Sites

· MATLAB

· Carnegie Mellon University Matlab Page

· Matlab software