Assigned readings
- Fred G. Martin. The Art of LEGO Design. The Robotics Practitioner 1995.
- Valentino Braitenberg. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. MIT Press 1986.
Intro through Vehicle 5.
- Brooks, R.A. Intelligence Without Representation. Artificial Intelligence 47 (1991), pp. 139-159
- Brooks, R.A. A Robust Layered Control Architecture for a Mobile Robot. IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation 2:1, March 1986, pp.14-23. Also MIT AI Memo 864, Sept. 1985.
- NXT motor internals by Philippe Hurbain.
- Lozano-Perez, T. Spatial Planning: A Configuration Space Approach, IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-32(2) 1983, also available as MIT AI Lab Memo.
Robotics textbooks (not required)
- Maja Mataric. The Robotics Primer. MIT Press 2007.
- Roland Siegwart & Illah R. Nourbakhsh. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. MIT Press 2004.
- Ronald Arkin. Behavior-Based Robotics. MIT Press 1998.
- Howie Choset et al. Principles of Robot Motion. MIT Press 2005.
- John Craig. Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control, 3rd ed. Prentice Hall 2004.
Robotics papers
- B. Mishra, J.T. Schwartz and M. Sharir, On the existence and synthesis of multifinger positive grips, Algorithmica 2 (1987), pp. 541-558.
- G.A. Pratt and M.M. Williamson, Series Elastic Actuators, Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 1995.
- D. Bertsekas and J. Tsitsiklis, Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, Ch. 7, section 7.3, pp. 508-517, Athena Scientific Publishing, 1995.
General-interest links
Some general-interest links related to the history and practice of AI and robotics: