Official Documentation
Gazebo
Unity
ROS 2
Books and Publications
Digital Twins and Simulation
- "Digital Twin: Manufacturing Excellence through Real-Time Data Feedback and Machine Learning" by Alain Pagani
- "Simulation of Dynamic Systems with MATLAB and Simulink" by Harold Klee and Randal Allen
- "Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms In MATLAB" by Peter Corke
Physics Simulation
- "Real-Time Rendering" by Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, and Naty Hoffman
- "Game Physics" by David H. Eberly
- "Physics-Based Animation" by Kenny Erleben, Jon Sporring, Knud Henriksen, and Henrik Dohlmann
Sensor Simulation
- "Handbook of Robotics" edited by Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib
- "Probabilistic Robotics" by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox
- "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots" by Roland Siegwart, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Davide Scaramuzza
Online Courses and Tutorials
- Coursera: "Robotics: Computational Motion Planning" by University of Pennsylvania
- edX: "Introduction to Robotics" by Columbia University
- Udacity: "Robotics Nanodegree Program"
Unity for Robotics
- Unity Learn: "Unity for Robotics" pathway
- Unity: "Unity Robotics Hub" with samples and tutorials
- Robot Ignition: Tutorials for connecting Unity with robotics frameworks
- RViz - ROS visualization tool
- MeshCat - Interactive 3D visualizer
- Webots - Robot simulation software
Communities and Forums
Robotics Communities
Research Papers
Digital Twin Research
- "Digital Twin in Industrial Internet" by Tao et al.
- "Digital Twin and Big Data Towards Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0" by Qi and Tao
- "A Digital Twin for Robotics" by Kammerl et al.
Simulation Research
- "Simulation-Based Development and Deployment of Robotic Systems" by Ferrein and Lakemeyer
- "Physics-Based Simulation in Robotics" by various IEEE conferences
GitHub Repositories
Simulation Examples