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Software Packages and Libraries
DAMAROB: Dario and Marco's Robotics Symbolic Toolbox for MATLAB
OpenRAVE: Open Robotics Automation Virtual Environment
SPACELIB: a library for 3D Kinematics and Dynamics of system of rigid bodies
Matlab Robotics Toolbox: can be used for robot kinematics, dynamics and trajectory generation
Dymola (Dynamic Modeling Laboratory)
Actin: Software toolkit for control and simulation of complex robotic systems
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio: Uses a component based approach.
Player/Stage Project: A very popular Free Software robot interface and simulation system, used for mobile robotics research and teaching worldwide.
Khepera Simulator
Webots
RoboWorks
RoboLogix
ABB RobotStudio
Festo COSIMIR Robotic Simulation Software
Others...

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Important Books
H. Everett. Sensor for Mobile Robots: Theory and Application. AK Peters, Ltd. , 1995
T. Braunl. Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems. Springer, 2003.
R. Murphy. An Introduction to AI Robotics. MIT Press, 2000
R. Arkin. Behavior-based Robotics. MIT Press, 1998.
R. Brooks. Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI. MIT Press, 1999.
S. Nolfi and D. Floreano. Evolutionary Robotics. MIT Press, 2000.
Y. Bar-Cohen and C. Breazeal. Biologically-inspired Intelligent Robots. SPIE Press, 2003.
G. Bekey. Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control. MIT Press, 2005.