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Robotics

A guide to resources for Robotics students, faculty, and researchers, from the U-M Library and beyond.

Finding Books

Use Library Search to find books and other materials.

For books, start at the Catalog category. Your results will include everything in our physical collection (books, audio, video, maps, musical scores, archival materials, and more), as well as materials available online such as electronic books, streaming audio and video, and online journals.

Popular eBooks + Audiobooks

Did you know U-M Library also has popular ebooks and audiobooks?

Books can be browsed, downloaded, and listened to using the Libby App, which also works with your local public library. 

See our eBooks Research Guide for instructions on setting up and using Libby with your U-M credentials.

Seminal Books in the Field


SEMINAL BOOKS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

— Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell (2021)

— Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop (2006)

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin Murphy (2012) [ebook]

Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow (2016) [ebook]

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard Sutton (2018)


SEMINAL BOOKS ON MACHINE LEARNING

— Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell (1997)

— Pattern Classification by Richard Duda (2000) [ebook]

— Bayesian Reasoning & Machine Learning by David Barber (2012) [ebook]

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Hastie & Tibshirani & Friedman (2009) [ebook]


SEMINAL BOOKS ON COMPUTER VISION

 Computer Vision: A Modern Approach by Forsyth & Ponce (2012)

— Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications [ebook only] by Richard Szeliski (2022)

— Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley & Zisserman (2003) [ebook]

— Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez & Woods (2018)

— Learning OpenCV 3: Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library by Kaehler & Bradski (2016) [ebook]


SEMINAL BOOKS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS

— Modern Control Systems by Richard Dorf (2011)

— Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers by Karl Åström (2008)

— Control Systems Engineering by Norman Nise (2011)

— Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction by Donald Kirk (2004) [ebook]

Featured Robotics eBook Collections

Many books on robotics and related disciplines are available as ebooks through U-M Library's Catalog.

In addition, the library subscribes to several specific ebook collections that might be of interest:


"Intelligent Technologies & Robots" Collection — provided by SpringerLink


Includes such titles as: 

-Key Digital Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

-Network-Based Control of Unmanned Marine Vehicles

-Advances in Swarm Intelligence

-Robotics in Natural Settings


"Control, Robotics & Sensors" Topic Collection — provided by IET Digital Library


 Includes such books as:

-Control Theory: A Guided Tour

-Control of Mechatronic Systems

-Flexible Robot Manipulators: Modelling, Simulation and Control

-Imaging and Sensing for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

-Signal Processing to Drive Human-Computer Interaction