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Below is a small collection of books I recommend reading, depending on your research project. Most of them should have a pdf version available on the net.

Don’t hesitate to contribute to this list!

Purely Robotic Books

  • “State Estimation for Robotics” by Tim Barfoot, download here
  • “A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation” by Richard M. Murray, S. Shankar Sastry, and Zexiang Li, download here

Mathematical Foundations

  • “Convex Optimization” by Lieven Vandenberghe and Stephen P. Boyd, download here
  • “Classical Mechanics” by John R. Taylor
  • “Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers” by Stanley Farlow
  • “Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Some of Their Applications” by Robert Gilmore, complemented by a nice reading of the book on youtube