Useful Links

General Robotics Pages

Robohoo! The World's Largest Index of Robotics Resources on the Internet. Robot Information Central Robotics in the U.S.A. RobotBooks.com - Robot Kits, Robotics, and Toy Robots Reviews of robotics books, plus robot kits, movies, and toy robots. EXPO 21XX - AUTOMATION 21XX, the online robotics, robot and actuator expo Laval University Robotics Laboratory stand at the EXPO21XX online exhibitions.

Personal and Robotics Lab Pages

CIM, McGill University Center for Intelligent Machines, under the directionhttp://www-lms.univ-poitiers.fr/rubrique10.html of Prof. Jorge Angeles. Laboratoire de mécanique des solides - Mécanismes et robotique Solid Mechanics, Mechanisms and Robotics Laboratory at the Université de Poitiers. The research fields are very diverse, including parallel manipulators (robot 2-delta), CAD robotics and the mechanics of grasping.

Parallel Mechanisms

Jean-Pierre Merlet The number one reference on parallel manipulators, featuring an impressive number of references, and introductory material. ParalleMIC - The Parallel Mechanisms Information Center The one and only web site devoted entirely to parallel mechanisms. ParalleMIC features an exhaustive list of patents, a publications database, plenty of links to companies manufacturing products based on parallel mechanisms, a terminology list, and various in-depth reviews.

LaTeX

CTAN To help you find the packages you need. (La)TeX Navigator Great amount of information concerning TeX and LaTeX (French and English). L'association GUTenberg Home page of a French association on TeX. TeX Users Group Home Page Home page of the international Tex Users Group (TUG).

Work Tools

Wolfram Research The developers of Mathematica. Waterloo Maple The developers of Maple. MathWorks The developers of MATLAB. Parametric Technology The developers of Pro/ENGINEER. Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics A superb web site with lots of figures, animation, and Java applets. Numerical Recipes An alternative to the books... Conversion of Units Conversion of almost all scientific units.

Bookstores and Publishers

O'Reilly & Associates   AWL Computer & Engineering Publishing Group Addison-Wesley-Longman home page. Prentice Hall   Merriam-Webster   OnWord Press   Quebec Amerique

Associations and Journals

ASME International Web site of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. IEEE Web site of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IFToMM Web site of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms. Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences Web site of a French-Canadian science association (in French). AIAA Web site of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Journal of Mechanical Design A scientific journal of the ASME. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control A scientific journal of the ASME. The International Journal of Robotics Research A scientific journal on robotics. Mechanism and Machine Theory The scientific journal of the IFToMM. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation A scientific journal of the IEEE.