Robot Books: The basics, the middle, and a lot of math.

Hi all
Here are my recommended robotics books. I hope you enjoy. Please put your favorite robotics books in the comment section below.

This first book Robot Builders Bonanza is a hobbyist level book but I still recommend it. This book introduces the basics of mechanical, electrical, microprocessors, and sensors that are used in modern robots. It is some good sections on different mechanical construction methods and materials as well as motor control.

This next book is one of my favorite “advanced” level books, Computational Principles of Mobile Robots by Dudek and Jenkins. It is simple to understand easy on the math, and well written. It also has a very nice flow to it where it takes you from locomotion, to perception, to representation, and finally to planning. It ends of with a discussion on robot types and some of the future robots. I have used the early chapters on robot locomotion as a reference on multiple occasions. If I was the author I would have put some of the last chapters in the beginning, but I guess that is why I am not one of the authors.

Principles of Robot Motions by a lot of people starting with Howie Choset is another book that I keep near my desk. It is a detailed book on robot motion and can be heavy on the math at times. I particularly like the bug algorithms that is starts with, the probabilistic roadmap section, and the Kalman filtering section. Another really nice thing that the book provides is over 100 pages of appendices that can be used to help in understanding the core parts of the book.

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