Neurobotics, Behavioral Robotics, Exoskeletons, Cognitive Control - Selection of References
also, you may want to check my list of references on ANNs and Intelligent Control

 

  1. Selection of Books on Robotics
  2. General Information about Robotics
  3. Robotics Tools
  4. Robotics Bibliographies and On-line Papers
  5. Courses
  6. Sites with miscellaneous Robotics links and resources
  7. Robotics Research Groups
  8. Reinforcement Learning

 

Selection of Books on Robotics

  • Sadao Kawamura, Mikhail Svinin, editors, Advances in Robot Control: From Everyday Physics to Human-Like Movements, Springer; 1 edition, ISBN-10: 3540373462, ISBN-13: 978-3540373469, November 14, 2006.
  • Sebastian Thrun, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, Rodney Allen Brooks (Eds.), Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, Springer-Verlag New York, LLC, Hardcover, ISBN-13: 9783540481102, March 2007.
  • Laugier, Christian; Chatila, Raja (Eds.), Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments, Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 35, X, 169 p., with online files/update, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-73421-5, 2007.
  • Li, Li, Wang, Fei-Yue, Advanced Motion Control and Sensing for Intelligent Vehicles, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-387-44407-9, Springer, 2007.
  • Srikanta Patnaik, Robot Cognition and Navigation: An Experiment with Mobile Robots (Cognitive Technologies) (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 3540234462, ISBN-13: 978-3540234463, Springer; 1 edition, September 14, 2007.

 

Implementation:

  • Sara Morgan, Programming Microsoft® Robotics Studio (Paperback), Microsoft Press, ISBN-10: 0735624321, ISBN-13: 978-0735624320, Paperback, March 15, 2008.
  • Joseph L. Jones, Anita M. Flynn, Bruce A. Seiger, Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, AK Peters, Ltd.; 2 Sub edition, ISBN-10: 1568810970, ISBN-13: 978-1568810973(Paperback), November 1998.
  • Build Your Own Humanoid Robots : 6 Amazing and Affordable Projects (TAB Robotics) , (Paperback), Karl Williams, McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (March 26, 2004), ISBN-10: 0071422749, ISBN-13: 978-0071422741 2.
  • Robot Programming : A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics (Paperback), Joe Jones, Daniel Roth, McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (December 12, 2003), ISBN-10: 0071427783, ISBN-13: 978-0071427784

 

Biomimetics, biologically inspired robotics, and exoskeletons:

  • José L. Pons, Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons, April 2008, ISBN: 978-0-470-51294-4.
  • George A. Bekey, Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents), The MIT Press, Hardcover: 593 pages, ISBN-10: 0262025787, ISBN-13: 978-0262025782, June 1, 2005.
  • Wermter, Stefan; Palm, Günther; Elshaw, Mark (Eds.), Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robots, Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Robotics, and Neuroscience Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3575, IX, 383 p., Softcover ISBN-10: 3540274405, ISBN-13: 978-3540274407, August 22, 2005.
  • Richard J. Duro, Jose Santos, Manuel Grana (Eds.), Biologically Inspired Robot Behavior Engineering, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, Hardcover, ISBN-10: 3790815136, ISBN-13: 978-3790815139, 1 edition, June 30, 2004.
  • Ronald C. Arkin, Behavior-Based Robotics, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0-262-01165-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01165-5, May 22, 1998.

 

Mind & Machine:

  • Rosalind W. Picard, Affective Computing, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0262161702, ISBN-13: 978-0262161701, Hardcover, Key Phrases: sentic modulation, human emotion system, affective computers, Media Lab, Steve Mann, Clark Elliott, September 19, 1997.
  • Stan Franklin, Artificial Minds, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0262561093, ISBN-13: 978-0262561099, Paperback, March 1, 1997.
  • Rodney A. Brooks, Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI, The MIT Press; 1 edition, ISBN-10: 0262522632, ISBN-13: 978-0262522632, Paperback: 213 pages, July 16, 1999.
  • Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The MIT Press, ISBN-10: 0262610795, ISBN-13: 978-0262610797, Paperback, (ISBN 0-262-11121-7, 1990), January 30, 1992.
  • Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind, Simon & Schuster, Hardcover: 400 pages, ISBN-10: 0743276639, ISBN-13: 978-0743276634, November 7, 2006.
  • Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto, Reinforcement Learning, An Introduction, March 1998, ISBN-10: 0-262-19398-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19398-6.

 

Related:

  • How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics, David B. Fogel, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Springer-Verlag, ISBN-10: 3540224947, Hardcover, 2005.

 

Pattern recogntion:

  • David MacKay, Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Hardcover, ISBN: 0521642981, 2003, Cambridge Univ Press link1 link2
  • Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer (2006), Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 17, 2006), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0387310738, ISBN-13: 978-0387310732 link1 link2
  • Christopher M. Bishop, Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Paperback), Paperback: 504 pages, Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 18, 1996), ISBN-10: 0198538642, ISBN-13: 978-0198538646

 

General Information about Robotics

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Robotics Tools

  • Matlab
    • Matlab documentation (User's Guides, etc.), available for free at Matlab Help Desk.
    • Student Edition of MATLAB Version 5 for Windows (Textbook Binding) by Mathworks, Mathworks Staff, MathWorks Inc. Prentice Hall; Bk&CD-Rom edition (April 28, 1997), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0132724774, ISBN-13: 978-0132724777 link1

Robotics Bibliographies and On-line Papers

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Courses on Robotics

Sites with miscellaneous Robotics links and resources.

Robotics Research Groups

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Reinforcement Learning

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