MECH 544/444 – 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
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® MINDSTORMSTM 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