An ODE related Book: Robot Simulation - Robot programming with ODE


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I introduce my ODE related book , “Robot Simulation - Robot programming with Open Dynamics Engine , (260pages, ISBN:978-4627846913, Morikita Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 2007)” by Kosei Demura, which is written in Japanese (sorry).There are a lot of good text books about Robotics, such as, “Robotics - Vector Analysis of Mechanical System- (SHOKABO)” by Prof. Hirose, “Introduction to ROBOTICS - mechanics and control (Addison- Wesley) ” by Dr. John J. Craig, and so on.In addition, textbooks related to the C programming language, many books line up into book stores. So, I decided to write a textbook combines those two subjects, rbotics and programming. Open Dynamics Engine is used in order to realize a virtual world, and experience robot programming in the worldThis book aims that learning fundamental theory in Robotics and acuqiring the programming skill to realize that.Unique features are as follows.

  • Foundations of robotics and a practice book which can acuqire the programming skill

    • Making robot sumulators, such as, wheeled robot (differential drive and omnidirectional drive), a robot arm, a 4 legged robot, a humanoid robot simulator as shown in above Videos.
    • Writing basic programs to control those robots in the C language
    • Multiplatform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and Mac OS X.
  • An ODE tutorial book
    • You can program without the ODE english user guide.
    • API index, API inverse index are supported.
    • About half of this book, i.e., 130 pages are ODE related articles (tutorial & manual function).
  • Donating One US Dollar per book sale

    • I sent some mails to Dr. Russell Smith who is the primary author of ODE. He kindly permitted me quoting and reprinting from the Open Dynamics Engine User Guide. If there is no ODE, this book being not to be born. Including the sense of appreciation to Russ, and in order to support the ODE project, I donate One US Dollar per book sale to ODE project. Morikita Publishing Co. Ltd. cooperated on this donation. In order to keep maintaining this kind of open source project, I think that cooperation of many people is necessary. Man shall not live by bread alone, but man shall not live without bread.
      I donated US $1642 in 2007.             Although, My ODE book was written in Japanese. Sorry. There are some ODE related pages in English. click here !

  • Source codes
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