What literature is worth reading about robotics?

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Programming

Hello. I decided to get into robotics, but due to the lack of any experience in this industry, I don't know where to start. Advise the literature, please, for perusal to start. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I still insist on Isaac Asimov :)

Answer 2

here is a list of books, but you don't know which one is better...
Gurstelle W. - Building Bots. Designing and Building Warrior Robots - 2002
Intermediate Robot Building, David Cook, - 2010
Make an Arduino-Controlled Robot, Michael Margolis, - 2012
Robot Building for Beginners, David Cook, - 2009
Vorotnikov S.A. - Information devices of robotic systems (Robotics) - 2005
Mechatronics and robotics. Micro-movement systems with piezoelectric actuators. Textbook, Smirnov Arkady Borisovich, - 2003
Modeling and programming of robotic systems
Fundamentals of robotics, Yurevich E.I., - 2005
Owen Bishop Handbook for a robot developer [2010]
Aerobatic radio-controlled aircraft models, V.Potapov, Yu.Khukhra., - 1965
Predko M. - 123 experiments in robotics
Programmable robots. Creating a robot for our home workshop, J. Williams, - 2006
A programmable robot controlled from a PDA, Douglas Williams, - 2006
Assembling and programming mobile robots at home. (Robots mobiles programmables Techniques advances) . Translated from French by M.A. Komarov, Zhimarshi Frederic, - 2007
Creation of robots at home (Newton S. Braga, 2007)
Robot control devices. Circuitry and programming, Predko M., - 2004

Answer 3

Learn electrical engineering (it will not be given in this specialty).
Better in practice: you take an arduino, a soldering iron, a dozen of all kinds of sensors, motors. And see how it all works.
From JP: C, assembler for at least one of some controllers.
From technologies, be sure to look at what OpenCV, ROS, Linux Embedded, RTOS are. Google these concepts, they will lead to resources on robotics.
From books I will not advise anything, I do not know. Well, if you post a list of books that you find, I can take a look and tell you which ones are worth reading and with what consequences.

Answer 4

I read Bishop - he has everything in great detail about the creation of buildings, it even becomes sickening. Lists of necessary screwdrivers, nails... it's a little outdated, given the capabilities of 3D printers.
But I really like the book "Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control" by Craig. It immerses well in the materiel of working with manipulators. It was not a pity to lay out over 1k rubles.
Arduino is the easiest way to read Internet resources. The blessing of them in bulk. Buy yourself a standard set from officials - and here it is, happiness, to play with sensors. Arduino is the fastest start in robotics. Next, you already need to learn circuitry, soldering. It is not necessary to solder robots right away - you can at least have this cute little thing. She just needs food. Looked great on the tree :).
You were rightly advised about ROS - if you have Ubuntu, then try to install and study from mana about creating software. If you don't have Ubuntu, install Ubuntu :). You can try to connect a voice engine under ROS and make the computer talk. ROS is generally a powerful thing: there you have emulation, and messages, and an excellent community, and thousands of softkeys for all your needs. There and the robot is not necessary at first.
You should check out the Kinect anyway - it's very popular as "eyes" and pretty easy to develop. Or other similar sensors, working with a webcam, processing through OpenCV. You can play around with OpenCV right now if you have a webcam. They have good tutorials.
By the way, it might be interesting: . The course is from the very beginning, but quickly and intensively. The material is given quickly, but at the same time, next to each lecture, there is a list of literature that you can read to delve into the topic.

Answer 5

More from the classics:
V. Pelevin "SNUFF", "Al-Efesbi Anti-Aircraft Codes".
The topic of human-machine interaction is shown very well.