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Control Books

System Dynamics (4th Edition)

K. Ogata

Modern Control Systems (10th Edition)

R. Dorf, R. Bishop

Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems (6th Edition)

G. Franklin, J. Powell

Digital Control of Dynamic Systems (3rd Edition)

G. Franklin, J. Powell, M. Workman

Digital Filters (3rd Edition)

R. Hamming

ECE515 Lecture Notes: Control System Theory and Design

T. Basar, S. Meyn, W. Perkins

Linear System Theory and Design (3rd Edition)

C. Tsong Chen

Modern Control Theory (3rd Edition)

W. Brogan

Linear Systems Theory

J. Hespanha

Optimization by Vector Space Methods

D. Luenberger

ECE553 Lecture Notes: Optimum Control Systems

D. Liberzon

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory: A Concise Introduction

D. Liberzon

H-Infinity Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems: A Dynamic Game Approach

T. Basar, P. Bernhard

Optimal Control: An Introduction to the Theory and Its Applications

M. Athans, P. Falb

Applied Optimal Control: Optimization, Estimation and Control

Jr. A. Bryson, Yu-Chi Ho

Neuro-Dynamic Programming (2nd Edition)

D. Bertsekas, J. Tsitsiklis

Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control (2 Vol Set)

D. Bertsekas

Optimal Control: Dynamic Programming

R. Bellman

Constrained Control and Estimation: An Optimization Approach

G. Goodwin, M. Serona, J. Dona

From Vector Spaces to Function Spaces

Y. Yamamoto

ECE517 Lecture Notes: Adaptive Control

D. Liberzon

Adaptive Control (Second Edition)

K. Åström, B. Wittenmark

Robust Adaptive Control

P. Ioannou, J. Sun

L1 Adaptive Control Theory: Guaranteed Robustness with Fast Adaptation

N. Hovakimyan, C. Cao

A Course in Robust Control Theory

G. Dullerud, F. Paganini

Nonlinear Systems (3rd Edition)

H. Khalil

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control: A Lyapunov-Based Approach

W. Haddad, V. Chellaboina

ECE534 Lecture Notes: An Exploration of Random Processes for Engineers

B. Hajek

Stochastic Processes and Filtering Theory

A. Jazwinski

Adaptive Filter Theory (3rd Edition)

S. Haykin

Elements of Information Theory (2nd Edition)

T. Cover, J. Thomas

ECE555 Lecture Notes: Control of Stochastic Systems

M.-A. Belabbas

Engineering Books

Introduction to Engineering Design & Problem Solving (B.E.S.T. Series)

M. Burghardt

Statics and Mechanics of Materials (2nd Edition)

R. Hibbeler

The Science and Engineering of Materials

D. Askeland, P. Phulé

Fundamentals of Thermodynamics

R. Sonntag, V. Wylen

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

L. Bobrow

Microelectronic Circuits Revised Edition (5th Edition)

A. Sedra, K. Smith

Introduction to Communication Systems (3rd Edition)

F. Stremler

Analog Signals and Systems

E. Kudeki, D. Munson

Fundamentals of Logic Design

C. Roth

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

E. Kreyszig

Schaum's Outline of Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

M. Spiegel

Physics Books

Chemistry

J. Olmsted, G. Williams

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit R - Laws of Physics are Frame-Independent

T. Moore

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit Q - Matter Behaves Like Waves

T. Moore

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C - Conservation Laws Constrain Interactions

T. Moore

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit E - Electromagnetic Fields

T. Moore

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit N - Laws of Physics are Universal

T. Moore

Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit T - Thermal Physics

T. Moore

Modern Physics (4th Edition)

P. Tipler, R. Llewellyn

Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition)

D. Griffiths

Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications

N. Zettili

Atomic Spectra (Oxford Chemistry Primers)

T. Softley

Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (5th Edition)

S. Thornton, J. Marion

Introduction to Optics (3rd Edition)

F. Pedrotti, L. Pedrotti

Introduction to Elementary Particles 2nd Edition

Griffiths, David

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

D. Griffiths

An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory

M. Peskin

Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

M. Schwartz

The Feynman Lectures

R. Feynman

Programming Books

Introduction to Algorithms ( 3rd Edition )

T. H. Cormen, C. E. Leiserson, R. L. Rivest, C. Stein

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

A. Gilat

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day (7th Edition)

S. Rao

C++ Primer (5th Edition)

S. Lippman, J. Lajoie, B. Moo

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

A. Géron

Misc Books

A History of Pi

P. Beckmann

Robot Visions

I. Asimov

A New Kind of Science

S. Wolfram

The Blind Watchmaker

R. Dawkins

Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins

R. Hazen

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

N. Tyson, D. Goldsmith

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

B. Greene

The God Delusion

R. Dawkins

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Y. N. Harari

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

P. K. Dick

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

H. P. Lovecraft

John Dies at the End

D. Wong

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

D. Wong

The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide

D. Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

D. Adams

Flowers for Algernon

D. Keyes

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

N. Bostrom

Sphere

M. Crichton

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

P. Le Couteur

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

R. Munroe

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

R. Munroe

The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

S. Strogatz

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

I. Stewart

The Selfish Gene

R. Dawkins

The Origin of the Species

C. Darwin

The Southern Reach Trilogy

J. Vandermeer

Prey

M. Crichton

The Expanse

J. Corey

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

M. Gelb

Neuromancer

W. Gibson

Papers

300 Years of Optimal Control: From The Brachystochrone to the Maximum Principle

H. J. Sussmann, J. C. Willems

Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization

T. Park, M. Y. Liu, T. C. Wang, J. Y. Zhu

demo

MorphNet: Fast & Simple Resource-Constrained Structure Learning of DeepNetworks

A. Gordon, E. Eban, O. Nachum, B. Chen, H. Wu, T.-Y. Yang, E. Choi

git

Learning Representations and Generative Models for 3D Point Clouds

git

A numerically stable dual method for solving strictly convex quadratic programs

D. Goldfarb, A. U. Idnani

Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent

Learning Latent Dynamics for Planning from Pixels

D. Hafner, T. Lillicrap, I. Fischer, R. Villegas, D. Ha, H. Lee, J. Davidson

Deep Photo Style Transfer

F. Luan, S. Paris, E. Shechtman, K. Bala

Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis

A. Brock, J. Donahue, K. Simonyan

A Variational U-Net for Conditional Appearance and Shape Generation

video

Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks

A. Graves

Everybody Dance Now

C. Chan, S. Ginosar, T. Zhou, A. A. Efros

video

A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks

T. Karras, S. Laine, T. Aila

video

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

R. T. Q. Chen, Y. Rubanova, J. Bettencourt, D. Duvenaud

Evolving simple programs for playing Atari games

D. G Wilson, S. Cussat-Blanc, H. Luga, J. F Miller

Generative Adversarial Nets

I. Goodfellow, J. Pouget-Abadie, M. Mirza, B. Xu, D. Warde-Farley, S. Ozair, A. Courville, Y. Bengio

Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots

J. Hwangbo1, J. Lee, A. Dosovitskiy, D. Bellicoso, V. Tsounis, V. Koltun, M. Hutter

video

Quadrocopter pole acrobatics

D. Brescianini, M. Hehn, R. D'Andrea

video

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

A. Beyeler, J. C. Zufferey, D. Floreano

Deep Successor Reinforcement Learning

T. D. Kulkarni, A. Saeedi, S. Gautam, S. J. Gershman

DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills

X. Bin Peng, P. Abbeel, S. Levine, M. van de Panne

video

PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation

C. R. Qi, H. Su, K. Mo, L. J. Guibas

git

Video-to-Video Synthesis

T. C. Wang, M. Y. Liu, J. Y. Zhu, G. Liu, A. Tao, J. Kautz, B. Catanzaro

video, video, git

Learning to Act by Predicting the Future

A. Dosovitskiy, V. Koltun

World Models

D. Ha, J. Schmidhuber

git

Chance-constrained dynamic programming with application to risk-aware robotic space exploration

M. Ono, M. Pavone, Y. Kuwata, J. Balaram

Chance-Constrained Optimal Path Planning With Obstacles

L. Blackmore, M. Ono, B. C. Williams

Iterative learning of feed-forward corrections for high-performance tracking

R. D’Andrea

L1-L2 Optimization in Signal and Image Processing

M. Zibulevsky, M. Elad

Compressed Sensing

D. L. Donoho

DeepMind's AI Learns Audio And Video Concepts By Itself

R. Arandjelović, A. Zisserman

video

Linear programming support vector machines

W. Zhou, L. Zhang, L. Jiao

Efficient Large Scale Linear Programming Support Vector Machines

S. Sra

Training Region-based Object Detectors with Online Hard Example Mining

A. Shrivastava, A. Gupta, R. Girshick

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?

Karl Friston

Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control

D. Holden, T. Komura, J. Saito

video

Data-Driven Control of Flapping Flight

E. Ju, J. Won, J. Lee, B. Choi, J. Noh, M. G. Choi

Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks

P. Isola, J. Y. Zhu, T. Zhou, A. A. Efros

demo

C. Hesse

Robot-centric elevation mapping with uncertainty estimates

P. Fankhauser, M. Bloesch, C. Gehring, M. Hutter, R. Siegwart

Online planning for autonomous running jumps over obstacles in high-speed quadrupeds

H. Park, P. M. Wensing, S. Kim

video

OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields

Z. Cao, G. Hidalgo, T. Simon, S. E. Wei, Y. Sheikh

git, video, demo

High-Speed Autonomous Navigation of Unknown Environments using Learned Probabilities of Collision

C. Richter, J. Ware, N. Roy

Neural scene representation and rendering

D* Light

S. Koenig, M. Likhachev

Integrated Perception and Control at High Speed: Evaluating Collision Avoidance Maneuvers Without Maps

P. Florence, J. Carter, R. Tedrake

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

T. Geijtenbeek, M. van de Panne, A. F. van der Stappen

video

CAS-CNN: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Image Compression Artifact Suppression

L. Cavigelli, P. Hager, L. Benini

The BioTac - Multimodal Tactile Sensor

J. Fishel, G. Lin, B. Matulevich, G. Loeb

Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning

video

Emergence of Locomotion Behaviours in Rich Environments

N. Heess, D. TB, S. Sriram, J. Lemmon, J. Merel, G. Wayne, Y. Tassa, T. Erez, Z. Wang, S. M. A. Eslami, M. Riedmiller, D. Silver

video

WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

A. van den Oord, S. Dieleman, H. Zen, K. Simonyan, O. Vinyals, A. Graves, N. Kalchbrenner, A. Senior, K. Kavukcuoglu

deepmind

A. van den Oord, S. Dieleman

Neural Machine Translation in Linear Time

N. Kalchbrenner, L. Espeholt, K. Simonyan, A. van den Oord, A. Graves, K. Kavukcuoglu

State space sampling of feasible motions for high-performance mobile robot navigation in complex environments

T. M. Howard, C. J. Green, A. Kelly, D. Ferguson

A Bezier curve based path planning in a multi-agent robot soccer system without violating the acceleration limits

K. G. Jolly, R. S. Kumar, R. Vijayakumar

Beyond Moore-Penrose: Sparse Pseudoinverse

I. Dokmanic, M. Kolundzija, M. Vetterli

Optimal Rough Terrain Trajectory Generation for Wheeled Mobile Robots

T. Howard, A. Kelly

Long Short-Term Memory

S. Hochreiter, J. Schmidhuber

VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator

T. Qin, P. Li, S. Shen

git

Misc

New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy

Scalable Muscle-actuated Human Simulation and Control

Feasibility study of a novel robotic system BALLU: Buoyancy assisted lightweight legged unit

New AI Imaging Technique Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results

6-DOF VR Videos with a Single 360-Camera (IEEE VR 2017)

Rebirth: Introducing photorealism in UE4

NVIDIA's AI produces Fake Human Photos with Unbelievable Quality

One hour of imaginary celebrities

Video Game Graphics To Reality And Back

Euclideon Unlimited Detail

Latent Space Human Face Synthesis

A Hybrid Hydrostatic Transmission and Human Safe Haptic Telepresence Robot

Introducing Handle

Evolved Electrophysiological Soft Robots

Musculoskeletal Robot Driven by Multifilament Muscles

Interactive Dynamic Video

Parkour! Watch This Animal-Inspired Robot Spring Off Walls

20m Super Long Robot Arm - Giacometti Arm with Balloon Body

Google Brain super-resolution image tech makes “zoom, enhance!” real

What's new, Atlas?

Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation

Artistic style transfer for videos

Universal Neural Style Transfer

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks

https://www.skydio.com/

Aerial-Biped: a new physical expression by the biped robot using a quadrotor

This AI Learned How To Generate Human Appearance

Learning Agile and Dynamic Motor Skills for Legged Robots

A New Algorithm for Hard-Exploration Problems

Pico Flexx

VertiGo

CMA-ES

Intuitively Understanding Variational Autoencoders

Tensorflow Playground

Hexcopter Meets Hexapod

Cassie the bipedal ostrich bot

How to Get a Better GAN (Almost) for Free: Introducing the Metropolis-Hastings GAN

Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games

This diligent robot balances a triple pendulum in few seconds

NVIDIA “Super SloMo” Makes Video Smooth

Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise

p-adic numbers

Tetration: The operation you were (probably) never taught

Fractional Calculus

Triple Pendulum on a Cart

New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy

Zipf's law

Air Swimmers Remote Control Flying Fish

JJ R/C - 318B Car-Copter

The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World

Fractals are typically not self-similar

These people never existed!

Engineering A Happiness Prediction Model

Fractal based marble game

in caverns

Trippy LSD Fractals with mandelbrot 3D