References:

• Robot Dynamics and Control. Spong, Mark W. & Vidyasagar, M.

John Wiley & Sons, Canada, 1989

• Introduction To Robotics. Craig, John J.

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York, New York, 1989

• Industrial Robotics. Groover, Mikell P.& Weiss, Mitchel & Nagel, Roger N.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, New York, 1986

• Industrial Robots and Robotics. Kafrissen, Edward & Stephans, Mark

Reston Publishing Company, Inc., Reston, Virginia, 1984

• Introduction To Kinematics. Hardison, Thomas B.

Reston Publishing Company, Inc., Reston, Virginia, 1979

• Computer Graphics Principles and Practice Second Edition.

Foley, vanDam, Feiner, Huges

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York, New York, 1990

• High-Performance Graphics In C. Adams, Lee

Windcrest Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1988

• Animation And Scientific Visualization. Earnshaw, R.A. & Watson, D.

Academic Press, London, England, 1993

• The Java Sourcebook. Anuff, Ed

Wiley Computer Publishing, New York, New York, 1996

• The Java Class Libraries. Chan, Patrick & Lee, Rosanna

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1997

Web Resources:

• Unimate Puma 500

http://www.ar2.com/puma500.htm

• Unimation PUMA 560 Robot Arm

http://robocop.anu.edu.au/docs/Puma560/

• Off-Line Robot Programming and Simulation

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/reu/summer95/Ovo-Dafe/ovo/ovo.html

• What's available for Puma Manipulators?

http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/robotics-faq/12.html

Tools:

• Microsoft Developer Studio / Microsoft Visual J++ 1.0

• Autodesk AutoCAD R13

• Autodesk 3D Studio R4.0

• MathSoft MathCad PLUS 6.0

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