A Blender 3D Survival Guide - A Beginners Haven

Blender, an open source 3D Graphics and Animation software is an excellent resource. But, a beginner soon gets into a web while learning the essentials. Paolo Ciccone provides a series of tutorials, which he calls a survival guide. True, it would surely help a beginner to survive the initial onslaught of learning the new software called Blender.

You'll find them at "The Blender 3D Survival Guide"

Are you a beginner? Blender tutorial for Robotics

Blender is a very comprehensive tool which is easy and fast for modeling. You can now use blender for robotic simulations. Are you new to blender or robotic simulations? There is a five part tutorial, which helps you to begin your journey in robotic simulations using Blender.

Part 1 - Introduction and Modelling

Part 2 - Parenting and Rigging

Part 3 - Interfacing with the Game Engine

Part 4 - Programming in the Game Engine

Part 5 - Game Engine and The Kinect

Looking for Robot Simulation Software?

      Open source - a nice word to hear, for the less privileged (may be that's about a few years back). LAAS/CNRS which has been working with Autonomous Systems have put together a group of open source software for simulation of perception, action and reasoning capabilities.

      It includes Applications for Architecture, Symbolic models and 3D path planning, Simulation and visualization and Interaction and social skills.

     It also includes Tools and Libraries for Trajectory Generation, Communication, Helpers along with an 'Abstract Interface'.

    You can find them at openrobots.org

Autonomous Flight of simulated quadrotor using ROS MoveIt

Alessio Tonioni presents his thesis work on autonomous flight using ROS MoveIt. You can also find links to his thesis and the code. You'll find necessary information to simulate and try it on your own.Check it out. Be sure to like his video.

Plugin to IEEE Robot Motion Planning and Control Resources

www.robotmotion.org, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee's site is a destination for Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion.

You will come across Open source softwares for motion planning, Data sets, Videos, Educational Resources of Books and Courses. You will also find information on the upcoming events and important News articles related to motion planning.

Robot Motion and Path Planning Research Resources from GAMMA

GAMMA (Geometric Algorithms for Modeling, Motion and Animation) research group are making a significant and ever increasing contribution in the field of research. Ongoing research works include Collision detection and proximity queries, Crowd and multi agent simulation, Interactive ray tracing, Motion and path planning, Physically based modelling, simulation and animation, Sound synthesis and propagation, Traffic simulation, reconstruction and route planning.

The Motion and path planning related resources can be found here.

Courses on Robot Motion Planning

I found some old courses on Motion Planning, which would be pretty useful to all those people who are just planting their feet into motion planning. You'll get an outline picture of motion planning and also find some useful Lectures, Homework, links to books and software. Explore the place and help yourself.

Motion Planning in Real and Virtual Worlds

Robotic Motion Planning