Abstract
This paper presents robotics educational materials, a simulator and a textbook, based on Open Dynamics Engine (ODE). ODE is an open source, fast, robust and an industrial quality library for a real-time and interactive simulation of rigid body dynamics. ODE is suitable for developing robotics educational materials. However, there is no book which introduces how to use ODE to make a robotics related simulator written in Japanese, and thus I wrote a textbook which gives basic robotics and how to make a simulator based on ODE. Students are able to tackle the subject with interest by the textbook and the simulators.
