This page presents a collection of lecture notes from around the web.
Beginner / Introductory
Robotics
- Robots 101 (excellent 2 page introduction to Robots) [PDF – 0.4MB]
- Beginners guide to Robotics (facts & activities) [PDF – 1.8MB]
- History of Robotics [PDF – 0.5MB]
- Introduction to Robotics [PDF – 3.2MB]
- Introduction to Robotics 2 [PDF – 3.8MB]
Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics in the context of Artificial Intelligence [PDF – 1.3MB]
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence [PDF – 0.2MB]
Intermediate / Advance
Robotics
- Introduction to Robotics Course – Stanford Engineering [website]
- Robot Vision [PDF – 2.9MB]
- Controlling Robots [PDF – 0.4MB]
- Kinematics Part 1 [PDF – 0.2MB]
- Kinematics Part 2 [PDF – 0.2MB]
- Instantaneous Kinematics (Jacobian) [PDF – 0.3MB]
- Trajectory Generation & Planning [PDF – 0.1MB]
- Dynamics [PDF – 0.3MB]
Artificial Intelligence
- Article on Adaptive Heuristic Critic
- Article on Fuzzy Systems with Evolutionary Optimisation
- Goal-Based Agents [PDF – 0.1MB]
- Heuristic Problem Solvers [PDF – 0.1MB]
- Constraint Satisfaction [PDF – 0.1MB]
- Deliberative Agents [PDF – 0.1MB]
- Learning [PDF – 0.1MB]
- Reinforcement Learning [PDF – 0.1MB]
Computing
Robotics in Space
- Mars Exploration Rover (2004) – Factsheet [PDF – 1.5MB]
- Mars Exploration Rover (2004) – Launch [PDF – 1.0MB]
- Mars Exploration Rover (2004) – Landing [PDF – 0.3MB]
- Mars Pathfinder Mission (1997) [PDF – 0.3MB]
- Phoenix Spacecraft (2008) – Factsheet [PDF – 0.3MB]
- Phoenix Spacecraft (2008) – Landing [PDF – 3.3MB]