Information/Resources
Last update: Feb 22, 2026
MATLAB
- Tutorial on creating simple animations. Animate sunrise/sunset YouTube link. MATLAB file.
- After learning the tutorial try to make an animated face. Here is a YouTube link to students' work in my robotics class.
3D printing and machining
TurtleBot
Manipulator
Opti-Track Motion Capture
Small Humanoid
- Darwin op2, original files on the robot
- Darwin op2, getting started manual, charging batteries etc.
- Darwin model/animation on Mac OS.
- Install gcc and x11 on mac
- Download the zipped file darwin_animation.zip
- Unzip the file and follow the instructions in the read_me file which includes two things: 1) set path to textures in animate.c, and 2) in terminal type ./run
- If you do above steps correctly you will see the following animation, darwin_animation.mp4
- Tony Pi Connecting Hiwonder Tony Pi to Wifi
Quadruped
- 3D CAD files for Minitaur Handle
- Minitaur Battery: Manual, Safety
- Files and read me
Passive Walkers
Simulations
Writing
- ASME style template for submitting independent study reports and course project reports
- How to create plots and edit plots for paper. See the video description for MATLAB file.
- How to create overview figures Video Author: Md Safwan Mondal
- How to write a research paper Video Author: Md Safwan Mondal
- How to create video with narration Video Author: Md Safwan Mondal
- Getting started with latex
- Windows 1) Download miketex (https://miktex.org/) and install; 2) Download texStudio and install (http://www.texstudio.org/)
- Mac 1) Download and install miketex for mac (https://miktex.org/howto/install-miktex-mac); 2) Download and install texShop (http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/)
- After installing mikeTex and editor (texStudio or texShop), download this latex example file and open the template.tex file in the editor and press the green button that says ">" on texStudio or type Apple key + T on texShop. This will create a pdf file template.pdf, which is the final result.
MuJoCo
- Instructions on getting MuJoCo C version working. See read_me.rtf (opens with wordpad/word) for instructions
- A1 trotting and keyboard control on windows. See read_me.rtf (opens with wordpad/word) for instructions
- Instructions on running own startup scripts on A1 hardware . See read_me_startup_script.rtf (opens with wordpad/word) for instructions
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle Routing
Advice for when and how to write papers (Clause Wilke)
Beginner tutorials