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Bibliography

This bibliography contains references to academic papers, books, documentation, and other resources used in creating this textbook.

Academic Papers​

  1. Quigley, M., et al. (2009). "ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System." ICRA Workshop on Open Source Software, 3(3.2), 5.

  2. Koenig, N., & Howard, A. (2004). "Design and use paradigms for Gazebo, an open-source multi-robot simulator." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2149-2154.

  3. Colas, F., et al. (2020). "Isaac Gym: High Performance GPU Based Physics Simulation For Robot Learning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11084.

  4. Schoeler, M., et al. (2022). "Learning quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain." Science Robotics, 5(47), eabc5916.

  5. Brohan, M., & Coon, J. (2012). "The DARPA robotics challenge: A report on the 2015 competition." IEEE Intelligent Systems, 31(3), 20-28.

Books​

  1. Siegwart, R., Nourbakhsh, I. R., & Scaramuzza, D. (2011). Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. MIT Press.

  2. Lynch, K. M., & Park, F. C. (2017). Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control. Cambridge University Press.

  3. Thrun, S., Burgard, W., & Fox, D. (2005). Probabilistic Robotics. MIT Press.

  4. Siciliano, B., & Khatib, O. (2016). Springer Handbook of Robotics. Springer.

  5. Murray, R. M., Li, Z., & Sastry, S. S. (1994). A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation. CRC Press.

Official Documentation​

  1. ROS 2 Documentation. (2023). ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill Documentation. Retrieved from https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/

  2. Gazebo Documentation. (2023). Gazebo Garden Documentation. Retrieved from https://gazebosim.org/docs/garden/

  3. Unity Documentation. (2023). Unity 2023.2 Documentation. Retrieved from https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.2/Documentation/

  4. NVIDIA Isaac Documentation. (2023). NVIDIA Isaac Sim Documentation. Retrieved from https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/isaacsim/

  5. NVIDIA Isaac ROS Documentation. (2023). Isaac ROS Documentation. Retrieved from https://nvidia-isaac-ros.github.io/

Online Resources​

  1. OpenAI Whisper Documentation. (2023). Whisper Automatic Speech Recognition. Retrieved from https://github.com/openai/whisper

  2. Docusaurus Documentation. (2023). Docusaurus v3 Documentation. Retrieved from https://docusaurus.io/docs

  3. ROS 2 Tutorials. (2023). ROS 2 Tutorials for Humble Hawksbill. Retrieved from https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/Tutorials.html

  4. GitHub Repository: ROS 2 Examples. (2023). Example packages and tutorials for ROS 2. Retrieved from https://github.com/ros2/examples

  5. Stack Overflow Robotics Tags. (2023). Community Q&A for robotics development. Retrieved from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ros

Additional Reading​

  1. Khatib, O., Park, H. J., & Park, I. W. (2014). "Humanoid robotics: a reference". Springer Reference, 1-4.

  2. Hirai, K., et al. (1998). "The development of Honda humanoid robot." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1321-1326.

  3. Asano, Y., et al. (2020). "OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model". arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09246.

  4. Brooks, R. A. (1991). "Intelligence without representation." Artificial Intelligence, 47(1-3), 139-159.

  5. Pfeifer, R., & Bongard, J. (2006). "How the body shapes the way we think: a new view of intelligence." MIT Press.

Standards and Specifications​

  1. ROS 2 Design Principles. (2023). Design principles and architecture of ROS 2. Retrieved from https://design.ros2.org/

  2. URDF Specification. (2023). Unified Robot Description Format specification. Retrieved from http://wiki.ros.org/urdf

  3. ROS 2 Interface Definition Language (IDL). (2023). Specification for message, service, and action definitions. Retrieved from https://design.ros2.org/articles/interface_definition.html

Tools and Frameworks​

  1. PyTorch Documentation. (2023). Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration. Retrieved from https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/index.html

  2. OpenCV Documentation. (2023). Open Source Computer Vision Library. Retrieved from https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/

  3. NumPy Documentation. (2023). Fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. Retrieved from https://numpy.org/doc/stable/

  4. SciPy Documentation. (2023). Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python. Retrieved from https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/

  5. Pandas Documentation. (2023). Data manipulation and analysis library. Retrieved from https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/

  1. MoveIt! Documentation. (2023). Motion planning framework for ROS. Retrieved from https://moveit.ros.org/

  2. Navigation2 Documentation. (2023). Navigation stack for ROS 2. Retrieved from https://navigation.ros.org/

  3. Robot Web Tools. (2023). Collection of tools for web-based robotics applications. Retrieved from http://robotwebtools.org/

  4. Webots Documentation. (2023). Open-source robot simulator. Retrieved from https://cyberbotics.com/doc/guide/index

  5. PyBullet Documentation. (2023). Physics engine for robotics simulation. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/document/d/10sXEhzFRSnvFcl3Xx7WdEI5l3-xP1kEEyGNGgv2zK1E/