Robotics Vital Research Tools - Engineering - The University of Auckland Library

Those purchased by the University of Auckland Library can be searched for in the Catalogue ( Refine the Results to Books, then eBooks) or Voyager ( use the quick limit box and set it to e-books).

E-Books from different providers can also be found at Library Home Page/ Databases/ E-Books,. The collections CRCnetBASE, Ebrary, Knovel, Referex, Ebsco, Safari Tech Books Online, SpringerLink, & Synthesis contain books useful to robots/robotics. Information of using these e-books is available from Library Home Page/ e-books and from Library Home Page/ Tutorials and Guides / Handouts/ eBooks: Using Online Books

Other online books are accessible directly from the Internet; but remember to be critical of everything you read on the Internet. Some can be found using Google Books by searching for the specific aspect of robotics you need, University of Pennsylvania online books listing http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html or Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm . Examples are given below:

Cutting Edge Robotics. Edited by: Vedran Kordic ISBN 978-953-307-062-9, InTech, October 2010
Industrial Robotics: Programming, Simulation and Applications. Kin-Huat Low, Low Kin Huat. Contributor Kin-Huat Low. Published by I-Tech, 2007 ISBN 3866112866, 9783866112865 870 pages
Computerized manufacturing automation: employment, education, and the workplace. Published by DIANE Publishing ISBN 1428923640, 9781428923645
OECD Information Technology Outlook, 2006: Information and Communications Technologies. Graham Vickery. Published by OECD Publishing, 2006 ISBN 9264026436, 9789264026438 311 pages

Internet Resource on Using Fuzzy Logic in Autonomous Robotics. Maintained by Alessandro Saffiotti. Last updated 2002.

E-journals

As for e-books, those subscribed to by the University of Auckland Library are catalogued on, and available through the Catalogue or Voyager. These are also listed and can be searched for on the Library Home Page E- journals .

However, many others are available free (or mostly free) on the Internet. They can be searched for at "the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."

Examples include:

Science Daily Robot News http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/computers_math/robotics/
The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal http://www.bentham.org/open/tocsj/index.htm

Standards & Patents

Information on both standards and patents can be found at Engineering Library page /subject-guides/eng/resources/patstandinf.htm

Some Standards are held by the Library, and can be searched for in the Catalogue and in Voyager. New Zealand Standards can be obtained from the database New Zealand Standards Online.

Web Resources

NZ Academic, Government & other robot websites:

The University of Auckland http://www2.ece.auckland.ac.nz/research/robotics/; robotics are also studied within Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, & Medical & Health Sciences
AUT, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR ) http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research-institutes/cair
Massey University http://mechatronics.massey.ac.nz/index.html
Victoria University of Wellington http://www.victoria.ac.nz/scps/research/mechatronics/publications.aspx
The University of Canterbury http://www.mech.canterbury.ac.nz/labs/robotics.shtml
Otago University http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/robot/robothome.html
Singularities in Robot Kinematics - A Publications Database (VUW) http://homepages.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~donelan/cgi-bin/rs/main
NZ companies. A search for 'robot*' in the database Kompass finds NZ companies, consulting engineers, components, etc. Use /subject-guides/bus/infosources/nzcompany.htm to find more information on these organisations.
Minister of Research, Science and Technology http://www.morst.govt.nz/ A search for 'robot*' finds reports and other documents.

Overseas sites:

There are too many of these to list; the following is just a start:

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
The Tech Museum of Innovation http://www.thetech.org/robotics/
Robotics Trends http://www.roboticstrends.com/
Directory & linking sites for robotics:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Engineering/Mechanical_Engineering/Robotics/,
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Robotics/ ,
http://www.compinfo.co.uk/ai/robotics.htm,
http://www.hi-techdirectory.org/robotics-technology.html,
http://www.cybsoc.org
University site directories:
US - http://robotics.nasa.gov/students/robo_u.php,

Researching, evaluating, writing, referencing

Tutorials and Guides for Evaluating websites, Reference styles used at University of Auckland, Developing a search strategy (concept map). Interpreting references, online tutorials, and course handouts.
Referencing and Technical Report Writing for Engineering students
Referencite http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?p=overview
Critical thinking: http://cad.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?p=critical_thinking
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students:
http://cad.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?p=rw &
http://cad.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?p=report_writing_for_science &
http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/
Quoting and Paraphrasing: http://cad.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?p=quoting
Avoiding plagiarism: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/about/teaching/plagiarism/plagiarism.cfm

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