Robotics

 

• [Brady1982] Robot motion: planning and control, Chapter 1: Basics of Robot Motion Planning and Control.
  An overview of basic techniques to make robots perform goal-oriented motions.
• [Lozano-Pérez1982] Task planning.
  You can skim the math on pages 483-484. This describes task-level robot programming languages, and the use of task planners to turn high-level descriptions of the result desired from a robot into low-level commands to the robot's manipulators.
• [Latombe1991] Robot Motion Planning, Chapter 1.
  An overview of basic problems, methods and complexity issues in robot motion planning.

• [Khatib1992] Inertial Properties in Robotic Manipulation.
  An up-to-date paper on modeling polynomial characteristics of robot arms.