Good Online Books

Posted on July 11, 2020 in Research Tricks & Tools

Robotics

  1. Robotics Simulation Toolboxes, Peter Corke
    • Peter Corke is a specialist in Robitcs Vision and control and he has two MATLAB® Toolboxes (Robotics Toolbox, Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB) that are open and free:

Numerical Methods

  1. Numerical Methods for Engineers, Leif Rune Hellevik.

    • This book has good examples in Python, including contents on ODE and PDE.

  2. Computational Fluid Dynamics, Praveen Chandrashekar.

    • There is some good stuff about numerical methods can be found in his website

  3. Programming for Computations, Hans Petter Langtangen.

    • This book only discuss the ODE.
    • The author is the inventor of the . The examples in the book have Matlab and Python versions.

Programming in Python

  1. https://scipy.github.io/devdocs/index.html

Mechanics

  1. Continuum Mechanics, Xavier (Javier) Oliver.
    • There are a lot of videos and slides with the book.

Control and Arduino programming

  1. PID Library for Arduino, Brett
    • The website has a lot of fun project, but the author has stopped updating the site and it might be gone one day.