Text book

[PC 11] Robotics, Vision and Control, website, amazon.com

References

[MLS 94] Murray, R., Li, Z. and Sastry, S., A mathematical introduction to robotic manipulation. CRC Press, 1994. website, pdf.

[RZ 10] Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, R. Szeliski, 2010. pdf available here.

[LaValle 05] LaValle, S., Planning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Free at http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/~lavalle/planning/.

[SSVO 09] B. Siciliano, L. Sciavicco, L. Villani, and G. Oriolo. Robotics: Modeling, Planning and Control. Springer, 2009.

[TBF 05] S. Thrun, W. Burgard, and D. Fox. Probabilistic Robotics. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

Papers

J. Funda and R. Paul, A comparison of transforms and quaternions in robotics, ICRA 1988.