Readings.

• Martin, F. (1996), Kids Learning Engineering Science Using LEGO and the Programmable Brick, In Proceedings of AERA.

• Martin, F., Mikhak, B., Resnick, M., Silverman, B. and Berg, R. (2000), To Mindstorms and Beyond: Evolution of a Construction Kit for Magical Machines, In Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning, Druin, A. and Hendler, J. (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

• Baum, D. (2000), Dave Baum's Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Apress, chapter 4: Construction.

• Baum, D. Gasperi, M., Hempel, R. and Villa, L. (2000), Extreme MINDSTORMS: An Advanced Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Apress, chapter 2: The RCX.

• Baum, D., NQC version 2.2.r1, NQC User Manual, NQC Programmer's Guide, NQC Reference card.

Motors, Effectors, Actuators

• McKerrow, P.J. (1991), Introduction to Robotics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., excerpts from chapter 2: Components and Subsystems; sections 2.1 - 2.6.

Sensors

• McKerrow, P.J. (1991), Introduction to Robotics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., excerpts from chapter 2: Components and Subsystems; section 2.7.

• Martin, F. (2000), Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering, Prentice Hall, chapter 5: Sensor Design.

Control

• McKerrow, P.J. (1991), Introduction to Robotics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., excerpts from chapter 2: Components and Subsystems; sections 2.9-2.11.

• Martin, F. (2000), Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering, Prentice Hall, chapter 8: Robot Control.

• Brooks, R. (1986), A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation 2(1).

Behavior

• Arkin, R.C. (1998), Behavior-Based Robotics, MIT Press, chapter 3: Robot Behavior.

• Birk, A. (1998), Behavior-based Robotics, its scope and its prospects, In Proceedings of The 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Press.

• Mataric, M.J. (1997), Behavior-Based Control: Examples from Navigation,Learning, and Group Behavior, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, special issue on Software Architectures for Physical Agents, 9(2-3), H. Hexmoor, I. Horswill, and D. Kortenkamp, eds.

Learning and Evolution

• Mataric, M.J. (1994), Reward Functions for Accelerated Learning, In Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference, William W. Cohen and Haym Hirsh, eds., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

• Harvey, I. , Husbands, P., and Cliff, D. (1992), Issues in Evolutionary Robotics, Cognitive Science Research Paper Serial No. CSRP 219, The University of Sussex School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Falmer, Brighton, UK.

Simulation

• Balch, T. (1998), Robots move: Position paper on simulation, In Working Notes of the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium, Stanford, CA.

• Miglino, O., Lund, H.H. and Nolfi, S. (1995), Evolving Mobile Robots in Simulated and Real Environments, In Artificial Life 2:4.

• Watson R.A., Ficici S.G. and Pollack J.B. (1999), Embodied Evolution: Embodying an Evolutionary Algorithm in a Population of Robots, In Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-99).

Artificial Life

• Colorni A., Dorigo, M. and Maniezzo, V. (1992), An Investigation of some Properties of an Ant Algorithm, In Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Conference (PPSN 92), R.Maner and B.Manderick (eds.), Elsevier Publishing.

• Bruce, J., Balch, T. and Veloso, M. (2001), Automatically Tracking and Analyzing the Behavior of Live Insect Colonies, In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents, Montreal.

Edutainment and RoboCup

• Kitano, H., Asada, M, Kuniyoshi, Y., Noda, I. and Osawa, E. (1997), RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agent-97).

• Sklar, E.I., Johnson, J.J. and Lund, H.H. (2000), Children Learning From Team Robotics: RoboCup Junior 2000, Eduational Research Report, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Psychology / Cognitive Science

• Minsky, M. (1987), Society of Mind, Picador edition (1988), chapter 1: Prologue; chapter 2: Wholes and Parts.

• Braitenberg, V. (1984), Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, MIT Press, excerpts.

Science Fiction

• Asimov, I. (1950), I, Robot, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Runaround (1942).