Robotics

Books

Probabilistic Robots, by Thurn, Burgard, Fox (2005)
Programming Robots with ROS: A Practical Introduction to the Robot Operating System, by Quigley, Gerkey, Smart (2015)
Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, 3rd edition, online version, C.D Toth et al (2017). This is a survey of the latest in computational geometry, including collision checking algorithms.
Springer Handbook of Robotics (2008)

Conferences

ICRA

Courses

Stanford
- AA289 - Robotics and Autonomous Systems Seminar
  - Adrien Gaidon, Toyota Research Institute: Pseudo-lidar/Monocular Depth Estimation (2019)

Videos

Matlab videos: Understanding Kalman Filters (7 videos)
Michel van Biezen: The Kalman Filter ilectureonline.com, youtube (55 videos)
Frank Dellaert: Factor Graphs for Fast and Scalable 3D Reconstruction and Mapping (2013), and tutorial
Gavin Suddrey: ROS1 vs ROS2, June 2020

ROSCON Talks

Ingo Lütkebohle: Determinism in ROS - or when things break /sometimes / and how to fix it (2017)
Nicolo Valigi, Cruise: Lessons learned building a self-driving car on ROS (2018), slides
Ingo Lütkebohle: ROS 2 Tracing Performance Analysis and Execution Monitoring
Doing Real-Time with ROS 2: Capabilities and Challenges See more on the ROSCON web site
ROS World 2020: Navigation2: The Next Generation Navigation System, using Behavior Tree navigator with runtime-configured BT XML files

Classes

Udacity: Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, youtube videos
Wolfram Burgard: Introduction to Mobile Robotics - SS 2018
- Laboratory, Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving

Papers

Benchmarking Model-Based Reinforcement Learning, by Wang et al (2019)
Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Handful of Trials using Probabilistic Dynamics Models, by Chua et al (2018)
Inferring Human Intent from Video by Sampling Hierarchical Plans, S. Holtzen, Y. Zhao et al (2016)
Learning Spatiotemporal Occupancy Grid Maps forLifelong Navigation in Dynamic Scenes, H. Thomas et al (2021)

Middleware

CyberRT vs ROS Differences
ROS on DDS. This article was written at a time before decisions were made to use DDS and RTPS as the underlying communication standards for ROS 2.
EEROS

ROS modules

rosserial wraps standard ROS serialized messages and multiplexes topics and services over a character device such as a serial port or network socket
rosbridge provides a JSON API to ROS functionality for non-ROS programs.

Behavior Trees

Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: An Introduction, v4, by M. Colledanchise, P. Ögren (2020)
A Survey of Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI, M. Iovino et al (May 13, 2020)
ROSDevCon19: Finite State Machines are dead. Long life Behavior Trees, Davide Faconti (Jul 2019). This is a tutorial on behaviortree.cpp, recommended to be used with ROS actionlib
py_trees documentation, py_trees_ros documentation

Generalist Agents

Scott Reed et al: A Generalist Agent, DeepMind (2022), blog

Robotics Entrepreneurship

News

Brian Heater: 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 (2023)
Brian Heater: Locus Robotics CEO on the future of warehouse automation (2023)
Brian Heater: 6 River Systems co-founder on the state of warehouse robots
BrainCorp

Grasping

Links