Good book for robotics

Question

Hello, does anyone know any good free ebooks on AI robotics. thank you.

Answer 1

You're welcome to procure the following books through any means we don't need to hear about :)

1. C.M. Bishop - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - great book for statistical machine learning, takes you from the basics to some pretty advanced material.
2. Russel & Norvig - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach : an excellent book to start with.

Since robotics is a huge field, I've decided to focus on AI (as requested) and hence the above are some key introductory textbooks for AI.

Answer 2

Free books:

1. Planning Algorithms by LaValle

Can't think of any more right now, but if I do I'll update this post. You can always look around on citeseerx.ist.psu.edu for papers as well.

Not free, but good:

1. Probabilistic Robotics by Thrun, et al
2. AI: A modern approach by Russel & Norvig

Also, take a look at this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1582860/recommendations-for-ai-and-or-robotics-related-books/1592026#1592026