Websites:

• Links and info
• Robotics Internet Resources Page
• Great list of robotics and PIC links

Books:

Hands-on Practical Robotics

• Robotic Explorations, Martin, F., Pearson Education, 0-13-089568-7.
• Mobile Robots, Jones, J., et al, A. K. Peters, 1-56881-097-0.
• Introduction to Robotics, Niku, S., Pearson Education, 0-13-061309-6.
• Robotics, Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence, Braga, N., Newnes, 0-7506-7389-3.
• Applied Robotics, Wise, E., Prompt Publications, 0-7906-1184-8.
• Robot Builders Bonanza, Second Edition McComb, G., McGraw-Hill, 0-07-136296-7, 2001. The title says it all. If you want to experiment with robotics and do it cheaply, get this book. Schematics, parts lists and lots of practical advice.
• Build Your Own Robot, Lunt, K., A. K. Peters, 1-56881-102-0. Oriented towards the authors particular robots, but good practical ideas.
• Practical Robotics: Principles and Applications, Bill Davies, CPIC Technical Books, 096818300X, 1995. Haven't seen it yet.
• Robots, Androids and Animatrons: 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build, Iovine, McGraw-Hill, 0070328048.
• Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots, , Kortenkamp, D., et al, AAAI Press/MIT Press, 0-262-61137-6.
• Behavior-based Robotics , Arkin, R., MIT Press, 0-262-01165-4.
• Robot Shaping, Dorigo, M., et al, MIT Press, 0-262-04164-2.
• Robot Building for Beginners, Cook, D., a! Press, 1-893115-44-5.
• Robot Teams, Balch, T., A. K. Peters, 1-56881-155-1.

  Mechatronics (locomotion, arms, etc)

• Mechatronics: Mechanical System Interfacing, Auslander and Kempf, Prentice-Hall, 0-13-120338-X.
• Robotics, Sandler, B., Academic Press, 0-12-618520-4. Good but not terribly practical book on mechatronics
• Engineering Foundations of Robotics, N-Nagy and Siegler, Prentice-Hall, 0-13-278805-5.
• Mobile Robotics : A Practical Introduction (Applied Computing) , Nehmozow, U., Springer-Verlag, 1852331739, 2000.
• Mobile Robots: Inspriation to Implementation, J. Jones, AK Peters, 1568810970, 1998.

  Sensing

• Sensors for Mobile Robots: Theory and Application, Everett, AK Peters, 1568810482, 1995.

  Comprehensive

• Adaptive Control, Asatrom and Wittenmark, AW, 0201558661, 1994.
• Personal Robotics, Raucci, Richard, AK Peters, 156881089X, 1999. (kit oriented)

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  Recommendations

  There is no single book that covers these topics and there are few that even cover a single topic well. Here are some that seem to be better.

  • Mobile robots - Mobile Robots: Inspriation to Implementation (Jones) is a good (and cheap) introduction to the important topics.
  • Practical Robotics - If you want practical stuff, get Applied Robotics (Wise) and Robot Builders Bonanza, Second Edition (McComb). For theoretical understanding, Robotics (Sandler),
  • For robotics, there are no books that cover the entire range, because obviously, the range includes locomotion, arm mechatronics, sensing (vision, hearing, touch), control, power systems, platforms, pattern recognition and just about everything else you can think of. I like the practical books (Wise, McComb, Lunt, Davies) and figure the rest of it just has to be ferreted out. The books listed above for mechatronics all pretty good.

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