References
Academic papers, technical documentation, and resources cited throughout this textbook.
All references follow APA 7th Edition format.
Books and Textbooks
Siciliano, B., & Khatib, O. (Eds.). (2016). Springer handbook of robotics (2nd ed.). Springer.
Journal Articles
Macenski, S., Foote, T., Gerkey, B., Lalancette, C., & Woodall, W. (2022). Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild. Science Robotics, 7(66), eabm6074. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074
Mur-Artal, R., & Tardós, J. D. (2017). ORB-SLAM2: An open-source SLAM system for monocular, stereo, and RGB-D cameras. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 33(5), 1255–1262. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2017.2705103
Conference Papers
Brohan, A., Brown, N., Carbajal, J., Chebotar, Y., Dabis, J., Finn, C., Gopalakrishnan, K., Hausman, K., Herzog, A., Hsu, J., Ibarz, J., Ichter, B., Irpan, A., Jackson, T., Jesmonth, S., Joshi, N. J., Julian, R., Kalashnikov, D., Kuang, Y., ... Zitkovich, B. (2022). RT-1: Robotics Transformer for real-world control at scale. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06817. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06817
Brohan, A., Brown, N., Carbajal, J., Chebotar, Y., Chen, X., Choromanski, K., Ding, T., Driess, D., Dubey, A., Finn, C., Florence, P., Fu, C., Arenas, M. G., Gopalakrishnan, K., Han, K., Hausman, K., Herzog, A., Hsu, J., Ichter, B., ... Zeng, A. (2023). RT-2: Vision-language-action models transfer web knowledge to robotic control. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15818. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15818
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 (IROS), 2149–2154. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2004.1389727
Makoviychuk, V., Wawrzyniak, L., Guo, Y., Lu, M., Storey, K., Macklin, M., Hoeller, D., Rudin, N., Allshire, A., Handa, A., & State, G. (2021). Isaac Gym: High performance GPU-based physics simulation for robot learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10470. https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10470
Radford, A., Kim, J. W., Xu, T., Brockman, G., McLeavey, C., & Sutskever, I. (2022). Robust speech recognition via large-scale weak supervision. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04356. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356
Schulman, J., Wolski, F., Dhariwal, P., Radford, A., & Klimov, O. (2017). Proximal policy optimization algorithms. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06347. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347
Technical Documentation and White Papers
NVIDIA Corporation. (2024). Isaac ROS documentation. NVIDIA Developer. https://nvidia-isaac-ros.github.io/
NVIDIA Corporation. (2024). Isaac Sim documentation. NVIDIA Omniverse. https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/isaacsim/
NVIDIA Corporation. (2024). TensorRT developer guide. NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK. https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt/
Open Robotics. (2024). ROS 2 Humble documentation. ROS 2 Documentation. https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/
Open Robotics. (2024). Gazebo documentation. Gazebo Sim. https://gazebosim.org/docs
Unity Technologies. (2024). Unity Robotics Hub documentation. GitHub. https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Unity-Robotics-Hub
Software and Code Repositories
Campos, C., Elvira, R., Rodríguez, J. J. G., Montiel, J. M. M., & Tardós, J. D. (2021). ORB-SLAM3 [Computer software]. GitHub. https://github.com/UZ-SLAMLab/ORB_SLAM3
Macenski, S., Martín, F., White, R., & Ginés Clavero, J. (2020). Navigation2 [Computer software]. GitHub. https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation2
OpenAI. (2022). Whisper [Computer software]. GitHub. https://github.com/openai/whisper
OpenVLA Team. (2024). OpenVLA [Computer software]. GitHub. https://github.com/openvla/openvla
Ultralytics. (2024). YOLOv8 [Computer software]. GitHub. https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics
Datasets
Brohan, A., et al. (2023). RT-X: Open X-Embodiment dataset [Data set]. https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io/
Google Research. (2022). Fractal dataset for robotic manipulation [Data set]. https://sites.google.com/view/fractal-data/
Standards and Specifications
OMG. (2015). Data Distribution Service (DDS) version 1.4. Object Management Group. https://www.omg.org/spec/DDS/
ROS 2 Design Working Group. (2024). ROS 2 design documentation. ROS 2 Design. https://design.ros2.org/
APIs and Web Services
Anthropic. (2024). Claude API documentation. Anthropic Documentation. https://docs.anthropic.com/
OpenAI. (2024). OpenAI API documentation. OpenAI Platform. https://platform.openai.com/docs
Note: This reference list includes key papers and resources. Each chapter has its own "Further Reading" section with additional specialized references.
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