Resources

• Introduction to Mechanical Design
• The Robot Oberating System Library
  • Useful for more advanced robots
  • Pub sub architecture
  • Request architecture
  • Data visualization
  • Has a package manager that has a ton of other software that is useful to robotics
  • Works with OpenCV
• OpenCV, an open sourced computer vision library
• Webots
  • General Robotics Simulator
  • A free and open source 3D robot simulator commonly used in industry, education, and research
• MIT Opencourseware Introduction to Robotics
• Tinkercad

Dev Boards

• Nvidia Jetson
• Dragonboard 410c
• Arduino
• Raspberry Pi

Professors at UCI with Interests in Robotics

• Professor Roy Fox - Intelligent Dynamics Labs
  • Reinforcment learning with robotics
• Professor Jeffery Krichmar - Cognitive Anteater Robotics Lab
  • Cognitive Science with robotics
  • Machine Learning
  • Robotics in general
• David Reinkensmeyer - Biorobotics Lab
  • Mechanical Design
  • Robotics in general
• Professor Zak M Kassas - ASPIN Lab
  • Sensors
  • Autonomous systems
• Professor Charles Fowlkes - Computer Vision Lab
  • Computer Vision