Proposed Books & Chapters

• S. Leutenegger,C. Huerzeler, A.K. Stowers, K. Alexis, M. Achtelik, D. Lentink, P. Oh, and R. Siegwart. "Flying Robots", Handbook of Robotics (upcoming new version - book chapter available online).
• K. Valavanis, and P. Vachtsevanos, "Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", Springer
• R. Beard, and T. W. McLain, "Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice", Princeton University Press
• F. Lewis, "Aircraft Control and Simulation", Wiley
• Roland Siegwart, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh and Davide Scaramuzza, "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots", Second Edition, MIT Press. Click here
• B. Siciliano, O. Khatib (editors), Springer Handbook of Robotics, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag. Click here

Relevant courses in other universities

• Introduction to Aerial Robotics at UNR. Click here
• Unmanned Aerial Systems at ETH Zurich. Click here
• Introduction to Robotics at MIT. Click here
• Aircraft Stability and Control at MIT. Click here
• Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots at TU Munich. Click here
• Machine Vision at MIT. Click here
  

Useful Tutorials

• Python Tutorial:
  • Official Python Tutorial
  • Beginner's Guide to Python
  • IPython Tutorial
• C++ Tutorial:
  • Tutorial from cplusplus.com 
  • PenguinProgrammer Tutorial
• Robot Operating System (ROS):
  • Introductory Course
  • Official Guided Tutorials
  • ROS Wiki
  • A Gentle Introduction to Catkin
  • Building Modular ROS Packages
  • ROS Cheatsheet
• MATLAB & Simulink Tutorials:
  • Documentation and Tutorials from Mathworks
• Ubuntu:
  • Cheat Sheet
• Git repository system:
  • Tutorial
  • Documentation
  • Cheat Sheet
• Tools to design aerial robots:​
  • eCalc - Online RC Calculator

• Differential Equations - Khan Academy. Click here
• Learn Differential Equations [using MATLAB]. Click here , MIT OCW Videos
• Probability theory summary. Click here
• The Kalman Filter. Click here
• The Extended Kalman Filter. Click here
• Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python. Click here
• Inverted Pendulum: State-Space Methods for LQR Controller Design. Click here
• Course on Model Predictive Control Part II – Linear MPC design. Click here
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping - Parts I & II. Click here & here

Other Topics in Robotics

• The Eigenwalker Model of the Human Gait. Click here

Open-Source Autopilots - Aerial Robot Development

• Pixhawk Open-Source Autopilot (not the only but most probably the best choice to start). Click here
• Paparazzi UAV Open-Source Autopilot. Click here
• DIYDrones community. Click here
• Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter (a cool, very low cost, micro vehicle project). Click here