Web Resources

This is a collection of useful web resources from non-TAMU sources.

Websites

• Modern Robotics (Northwestern)

• Texas A&M Mechanical Engineering Peer Teaching Resources

Robotics Platforms

• MIT OCW – Introduction to Robotics

• ROS Official Tutorials

• ROS Setup / Overview

Design Essentials

• McMaster-Carr (parts sourcing)

• MotionGen – Linkage Simulation

Popular YouTube Channels

Formal Lecturers

• 3Blue1Brown

• MATLAB

• MIT OpenCourseWare

• Stanford Online

• Steve Brunton

• NPTEL

Informal Lecturers

• Veritasium

Makers and Builders

• The Hacksmith

• James Bruton

• Stuff Made Here

• DIY Perks

Engineering Resources

General References

• Paul’s Online Math Notes

• MIT OpenCourseWare (Mechanical Engineering)

• MIT Online Textbooks

• InTech Open Access Books

• ISRLab Teaching Resources

Components, Data, and Parts Libraries

• MatWeb and MatBase

• GrabCAD, Thingiverse

• KMODDL

Calculators and Tools

• Desmos, MechaniCalc, WolframAlpha

• Engineering ToolBox

Patents and Research

• Google Patents, European Patent Office, United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Google Scholar

Math and Programming

• Calculus (Strang), Online Mathematics Textbooks, Essentials of Linear Algebra (3Blue1Brown)

• Matrix Cookbook

• Numerical Analysis for Engineering

• Math, Numerics, & Programming for Mechanical Engineers

• Programming references: Project Euler, Rosetta Code, Definitive C++ Book Guide, EbookFoundation programming books

• Python resources: A Byte of Python, Dive into Python 3, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, GreenTeaPress, Python Data Science Handbook, kaggle.com/learn, awesome-python-in-education, Gallery of Interesting Jupyter Notebooks

• C++ resources: Learn C++

• Julia resources: Learning Julia, EbookFoundation Julia list

• MATLAB resources: Awesome MATLAB List, MATLAB Toolbox tutorials, Stuart’s MATLAB Videos, Control Tutorials for MATLAB and Simulink, Engineering Computation with MATLAB

• R and LaTeX: EbookFoundation R list, Wikibooks: LaTeX

Mechanics and Materials

• Applied Mechanics of Solids, Continuum Mechanics

• Bolted Joint Analysis, Strength of Materials, Beam Stress and Deflection, Column Buckling

• Structures: Engineering of Structures Around Us, Elements of Structures, Mechanical Properties of Materials (MIT)

• Mechanisms and design: Kinematic Models for Design

• Control foundations: Feedback Systems, Classical Control Theory (Brian Douglas)

Thermodynamics and Fluids

• NASA Introductory Thermodynamics, Wikibooks: Engineering Thermodynamics

• Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach

• Heat transfer: Wikibooks: Heat Transfer

Manufacturing, CAD, and CAE

• CAD and modeling: Shape Interrogation for CAD and Manufacturing, Geometric and Solid Modeling, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Modeling, Geometric Modeling: A First Course, CAD in Mechanical Engineering

• CAD platforms and training: Onshape, OpenSCAD, FreeCAD, Solidworks resources

• Manufacturing references: SheetMetal.me, 3D Hubs Knowledge Base

• CAE and FEA: FEniCS, CalculiX

• CAE learning: University of Alberta ANSYS Tutorials

Professional Exams

• NCEES PE Exam with Examinee Guide and Passing the PE Exam

Robotics Books

• Probabilistic Robotics

• Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots

• Springer Handbook of Robotics

• Planning Algorithms

• A Gentle Introduction to ROS

• A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation

• Learning Computing With Robots

• Robotics, Vision and Control

• Introduction to Autonomous Robots

• Programming Robots with ROS, Learning ROS for Robotics Programming

Robotics Software and Libraries

Frameworks and Middleware

• ROS and ROS 2

• RobWork, Robotics Library, MRPT

• YARP

Simulators

• Gazebo and Ignition Gazebo

• Webots, CoppeliaSim (V-REP), MORSE

• CARLA, AirSim, Isaac Sim

Motion Planning and Control

• OMPL and MoveIt!

• Drake, cuRobo, Control Toolbox

• Ruckig, trajopt

Mapping and Perception

• Cartographer, RTAB-Map, ORB-SLAM2

• Mapping libraries: OctoMap, PCL, voxblox

Optimization and Math Libraries

• CasADi, Ceres Solver, Ipopt

• OSQP, NLopt, Pagmo2, ProxSuite

• ifopt, qpsolvers

Machine Learning and RL

• OpenAI Gym (with gym-gazebo and gym-dart)

• robosuite

Robotics Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI)

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Robotics Journals

• Autonomous Robots

• IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics

• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

• Journal of Field Robotics

• Robotics and Autonomous Systems

• The International Journal of Robotics Research

Robotics Competitions

• ASME Competitions

• ICRA Robot Challenges

• RoboCup (including RoboCupJunior)

• FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Lego League

• VEX Robotics Competition, Eurobot

Communities and Tutorials

• Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy

• Robotics StackExchange

• PythonRobotics

• ROS on conda-forge