My Modern Robotics book by Lynch and Park https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1107156300/ just arrived! It is truly the best bridge between manifold topology and Lagrangian mechanics ("mechanics on manifolds") to robotics I am likely to encounter (I think; I obviously haven't read it yet). It comes with a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVu-Hijns70&list=PLggLP4f-rq02vX0OQQ5vrCxbJrzamYDfx&index=1 and a Coursera course https://www.coursera.org/specializations/modernrobotics?authMode=login&authType=google&errorCode=unknownStatus&isNewUser=true and I'm as excited about it as I was my first course in control engineering at UW-Platteville.
(Somehow, some content got snipped off; I'll have to try to recreate it later - boo-hiss!)
