Steven M. LaValle

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Steven M. LaValle is affiliated with the following schools: University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Oulu

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According to Wikipedia, Steven M. LaValle is an American computer scientist, and a professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu. He was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR until it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. He is best known for his work on rapidly exploring random trees , the Oculus Rift, and his book, Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field.

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Steven M. LaValle's Published Works

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Planning algorithms (2006) (6532)
Rapidly-exploring random trees : a new tool for path planning (1998) (3621)
Randomized Kinodynamic Planning (1999) (3471)
RRT-connect: An efficient approach to single-query path planning (2000) (3043)
Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees: Progress and Prospects (2000) (1482)
On the Relationship between Classical Grid Search and Probabilistic Roadmaps (2004) (484)
Optimal motion planning for multiple robots having independent goals (1996) (395)
Dynamic-Domain RRTs: Efficient Exploration by Controlling the Sampling Domain (2005) (294)
A Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion Problem (1999) (266)
Time-optimal paths for a Dubins airplane (2007) (266)
Structure and Intractability of Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning on Graphs (2013) (255)
Motion strategies for maintaining visibility of a moving target (1997) (249)
Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion in a Polygonal Environment (1997) (228)
Optimal Multirobot Path Planning on Graphs: Complete Algorithms and Effective Heuristics (2015) (227)
Head tracking for the Oculus Rift (2014) (197)
Quasi-randomized path planning (2001) (194)
Randomized path planning for linkages with closed kinematic chains (2001) (193)
Finding an unpredictable target in a workspace with obstacles (1997) (193)
Current Issues in Sampling-Based Motion Planning (2005) (177)
Generating Uniform Incremental Grids on SO(3) Using the Hopf Fibration (2010) (169)
Planning optimal paths for multiple robots on graphs (2012) (165)
A probabilistic roadmap approach for systems with closed kinematic chains (1999) (164)
Can Simulated Nature Support Mental Health? Comparing Short, Single-Doses of 360-Degree Nature Videos in Virtual Reality With the Outdoors (2020) (153)
Improving Motion-Planning Algorithms by Efficient Nearest-Neighbor Searching (2007) (150)
Multi-agent Path Planning and Network Flow (2012) (135)
Motion Planning (2011) (134)
Adaptive tuning of the sampling domain for dynamic-domain RRTs (2005) (131)
Reducing metric sensitivity in randomized trajectory design (2001) (130)
Distance-Optimal Navigation in an Unknown Environment Without Sensing Distances (2007) (129)
Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion in an Unknown Planar Environment (2004) (127)
Visibility-based pursuit-evasion: the case of curved environments (1999) (126)
Resolution complete rapidly-exploring random trees (2002) (125)
Efficient nearest neighbor searching for motion planning (2002) (123)
Incrementally reducing dispersion by increasing Voronoi bias in RRTs (2004) (122)
Rendezvous without coordinates (2008) (114)
Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots (2006) (110)
Deterministic sampling methods for spheres and SO(3) (2004) (105)
Robot Motion Planning: A Game-Theoretic Foundation (2000) (86)
An algorithm for searching a polygonal region with a flashlight (2000) (85)
Gap Navigation Trees: Minimal Representation for Visibility-based Tasks (2004) (82)
Optimal navigation and object finding without geometric maps or localization (2003) (78)
Simple and Efficient Algorithms for Computing Smooth, Collision-free Feedback Laws Over Given Cell Decompositions (2009) (75)
Motion Planning : The Essentials (2011) (74)
From Dynamic Programming to RRTs: Algorithmic Design of Feasible Trajectories (2003) (72)
On Motion Planning in Changing, Partially Predictable Environments (1997) (70)
Incremental low-discrepancy lattice methods for motion planning (2003) (70)
Algorithms for Computing Numerical Optimal Feedback Motion Strategies (2001) (67)
Comparing the Power of Robots (2008) (66)
Real Time Feedback Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots With Obstacles (2006) (66)
Sensing and Filtering: A Fresh Perspective Based on Preimages and Information Spaces (2012) (65)
Smoothly Blending Vector Fields for Global Robot Navigation (2005) (63)
A game-theoretic framework for robot motion planning (1996) (59)
An Objective-Based Framework for Motion Planning under Sensing and Control Uncertainties (1998) (58)
A pursuit-evasion BUG algorithm (2001) (53)
Computing Pareto Optimal Coordinations on Roadmaps (2005) (53)
I-Bug: An intensity-based bug algorithm (2009) (51)
Localization With Limited Sensing (2007) (50)
A Bayesian Segmentation Methodology for Parametric Image Models (1995) (50)
Mapping and Pursuit-Evasion Strategies For a Simple Wall-Following Robot (2011) (49)
Visibility-based Pursuit—Evasion with Bounded Speed (2008) (49)
Steps toward derandomizing RRTs (2004) (49)
Virtual Reality (2004) (48)
The sampling-based neighborhood graph: an approach to computing and executing feedback motion strategies (2004) (48)
Probabilistic localization with a blind robot (2008) (46)
Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion with Bounded Speed (2008) (44)
Nonpositive Curvature and Pareto Optimal Coordination of Robots (2006) (44)
Pursuit-evasion in an unknown environment using gap navigation trees (2004) (42)
Survivability: Measuring and ensuring path diversity (2009) (41)
Sampling-based motion planning with differential constraints (2005) (40)
Incremental Grid Sampling Strategies in Robotics (2004) (40)
Sensor Beams, Obstacles, and Possible Paths (2008) (39)
Simplicial dijkstra and A* algorithms for optimal feedback planning (2011) (39)
Distance optimal formation control on graphs with a tight convergence time guarantee (2012) (38)
A Simple, but NP-Hard, Motion Planning Problem (2013) (37)
Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning on Graphs: Structure and Computational Complexity (2015) (36)
Motion Planning for Highly Constrained Spaces (2009) (33)
Multiresolution approach for motion planning under differential constraints (2006) (32)
Pursuit-evasion using beam detection (2000) (32)
Space-filling trees: A new perspective on incremental search for motion planning (2011) (32)
Smooth Feedback for Car-Like Vehicles in Polygonal Environments (2007) (32)
Improving the performance of sampling-based planners by using a symmetry-exploiting gap reduction algorithm (2004) (31)
An objective-based stochastic framework for manipulation planning (1994) (31)
An Art Gallery Approach to Ensuring that Landmarks are Distinguishable (2011) (31)
Game theory as a unifying structure for a variety of robot tasks (1993) (30)
Improving the Performance of Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Symmetry-Based Gap Reduction (2008) (30)
Almost-Sensorless Localization (2005) (30)
A framework for planning feedback motion strategies based on a random neighborhood graph (2000) (29)
Controlling Wild Bodies Using Linear Temporal Logic (2011) (28)
Motion Planning with Visibility Constraints: Building Autonomous Observers (1998) (28)
Optimal Gap Navigation for a Disc Robot (2012) (28)
A randomized kinematics‐based approach to pharmacophore‐constrained conformational search and database screening (2000) (27)
A randomized kinematics-based approach to pharmacophore-constrained conformational search and database screening (2000) (27)
Shadow Information Spaces: Combinatorial Filters for Tracking Targets (2012) (26)
Computing Smooth Feedback Plans Over Cylindrical Algebraic Decompositions (2006) (25)
Exact Pareto-optimal coordination of two translating polygonal robots on an acyclic roadmap (2004) (25)
Path selection and coordination for multiple robots via Nash equilibria (1994) (24)
Pareto Optimal Coordination on Roadmaps (2004) (24)
Efficient computation of optimal navigation functions for nonholonomic planning (1999) (24)
Controlling wild mobile robots using virtual gates and discrete transitions (2012) (23)
Simplicial Dijkstra and A∗ Algorithms: From Graphs to Continuous Spaces (2012) (21)
Tracking hidden agents through shadow information spaces (2008) (21)
Motion Planning Part II: Wild Frontiers (2011) (20)
Bitbots: Simple Robots Solving Complex Tasks (2005) (20)
A framework for motion planning in stochastic environments: modeling and analysis (1995) (20)
Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential Drive Mobile Robots Among Piecewise Smooth Obstacles (2007) (19)
Locally-optimal navigation in multiply-connected environments without geometric maps (2003) (19)
Planning Algorithms: Sampling-Based Motion Planning (2006) (19)
A framework for motion planning in stochastic environments: applications and computational issues (1995) (18)
Planning Algorithms: Combinatorial Motion Planning (2006) (18)
Using Randomization to Find and Optimize Feasible Trajectories for Nonlinear Systems (2000) (17)
Global vector field computation for feedback motion planning (2009) (17)
Combinatorial Filters (2014) (17)
Exploiting group symmetries to improve precision in kinodynamic and nonholonomic planning (2003) (17)
Effects of Visual Realism and Moving Detail on Cybersickness (2018) (17)
Assessing Postural Instability and Cybersickness Through Linear and Angular Displacement (2019) (17)
Planning under topological constraints using beam-graphs (2013) (17)
On Comparing the Power of Mobile Robots (2006) (16)
Optimizing robot motion strategies for assembly with stochastic models of the assembly process (1996) (16)
A complete pursuit-evasion algorithm for two pursuers using beam detection (2002) (15)
Clearing a Polygon with Two 1-Searchers (2009) (15)
Exploration of an unknown environment with a differential drive disc robot (2014) (15)
Filtering and Planning in Information Spaces (2009) (15)
Minimalist multiple target tracking using directional sensor beams (2011) (15)
On time: Clocks, chronometers, and open-loop control (2007) (14)
Using a Robot to Learn Geometric Information from Permutations of Landmarks (2006) (14)
Bayesian region merging probability for parametric image models (1993) (13)
Information spaces for mobile robots (2005) (13)
Human Perception-Optimized Planning for Comfortable VR-Based Telepresence (2020) (12)
Story validation and approximate path inference with a sparse network of heterogeneous sensors (2011) (12)
Resolution completeness for sampling-based motion planning with differential constraints (12)
Evaluating motion strategies under nondeterministic or probabilistic uncertainties in sensing and control (1996) (11)
Efficacy Study on Interactive Mixed Reality (IMR) Software with Sepsis Prevention Medical Education (2019) (11)
How many landmark colors are needed to avoid confusion in a polygon? (2011) (11)
Intensity-based navigation with global guarantees (2014) (11)
Cyber Detectives: Determining When Robots or People Misbehave (2010) (11)
Methods for numerical integration of high-dimensional posterior densities with application to statistical image models (1993) (11)
Toward the design and analysis of blind, bouncing robots (2013) (11)
Manipulating Ergodic Bodies through Gentle Guidance (2012) (11)
Probabilistic shadow information spaces (2010) (10)
Efficient formation path planning on large graphs (2013) (10)
Navigation among visually connected sets of partially distinguishable landmarks (2012) (9)
A chromatic art gallery problem (2010) (9)
Shortest path set induced vertex ordering and its application to distributed distance optimal formation path planning and control on graphs (2013) (9)
Planning Algorithms: Motion Planning (2006) (9)
Geodesic problems for mobile robots (2008) (9)
Learning Combinatorial Map Information from Permutations of Landmarks (2011) (9)
A Framework for Constructing Probability Distributions on the Space of Image Segmentations (1995) (9)
A visibility-based approach to computing non-deterministic bouncing strategies (2021) (8)
Sufficient Conditions for the Existence of Resolution Complete Planning Algorithms (2010) (8)
Efficient database screening for rational drug design using pharmacophore-constrained conformational search (1999) (8)
Robot motion planning in a changing, partially predictable environment (1994) (8)
Analysis of User Preferences for Robot Motions in Immersive Telepresence (2021) (7)
Planning Optimal Paths for Multi-agent Systems on Graphs (2012) (7)
Continuous planning with winding constraints using optimal heuristic-driven front propagation (2013) (7)
Planning For Closed Chains Without Inverse Kinematics (2006) (7)
Sensing and Filtering : A Tutorial Based on Preimages and Information Spaces (2011) (7)
Time Optimal Multi-Agent Path Planning on Graphs (2012) (7)
Simple and Efficient Algorithms for Computing Smooth , Collision-Free Feedback Laws (2006) (7)
Unwinding Rotations Improves User Comfort with Immersive Telepresence Robots (2022) (6)
Chapter 5 Motion Planning (2007) (6)
Sloppy motors, flaky sensors, and virtual dirt: Comparing imperfect ill-informed robots (2007) (6)
Fast, Near-Optimal Computation for Multi-Robot Path Planning on Graphs (2013) (6)
Sensor Lattices: Structures for Comparing Information Feedback (2019) (6)
An Explicit Characterization of Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drives (2006) (6)
An improved random neighborhood graph approach (2002) (6)
The Plausibility Paradox for Resized Users in Virtual Environments (2021) (6)
Optimal Navigation for a Differential Drive Disc Robot: A Game Against the Polygonal Environment (2018) (6)
Mapping and Navigation from Permutations of Landmarks (2006) (5)
Virtual Reality for Robots (2019) (5)
Virtual reality visualization of patient specific heart model (2016) (5)
Sampling-Based Methods for Discrete Planning (5)
for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots (2009) (4)
Space-Filling Trees (2009) (4)
Dominance and Equivalence for Sensor-Based Agents (2007) (4)
Periodic trajectories of mobile robots (2017) (4)
Considering multiple-surface hypotheses in a Bayesian hierarchy (1991) (4)
Stochastic modeling, control, and verification of wild bodies (2014) (4)
Information Requirements of Collision-Based Micromanipulation (2020) (4)
Randomized Kinodynami Planning (1999) (4)
Tutorial: filtering and planning in information space (2009) (4)
The Plausibility Paradox For Scaled-Down Users In Virtual Environments (2019) (4)
Counting Moving Bodies Using Sparse Sensor Beams (2013) (4)
Planning Algorithms: Basic Decision Theory (2006) (3)
Planning Algorithms: Sequential Decision Theory (2006) (3)
Comfort and Sickness while Virtually Aboard an Autonomous Telepresence Robot (2021) (3)
Planning Algorithms: The Configuration Space (2006) (3)
Chapter 12 Planning Under Sensing Uncertainty (2006) (3)
Defining Preferred and Natural Robot Motions in Immersive Telepresence from a First-Person Perspective (2021) (3)
Searching and mapping among indistinguishable convex obstacles (2010) (3)
Simplicial Label Correcting Algorithms for continuous stochastic shortest path problems (2013) (3)
Augmenting Immersive Telepresence Experience with a Virtual Body (2022) (3)
Planning Algorithms: Introduction (2006) (3)
Learning the delaunay triangulation of landmarks from a distance ordering sensor (2011) (3)
Chapter 3 Geometric Representations and Transformations (2008) (2)
Complete Path Planning That Simultaneously Optimizes Length and Clearance (2021) (2)
Optimizing robot motion strategies for assembly with stochastic models of the assembly process (1995) (2)
Convex Hull Asymptotic Shape Evolution (2012) (2)
A motion strategy for exploration driven by an automaton activating feedback-based controllers (2019) (2)
Sensor Lattices : A Preimage-Based Approach to Comparing Sensors (2011) (2)
Chapter 6 Combinatorial Motion Planning (2006) (2)
On Considering Uncertainty and Alternatives in Low-Level Vision (1993) (2)
Representing probability distributions of image segments and segmentations (1992) (2)
Planning Algorithms: Feedback Motion Planning (2006) (2)
Planning Algorithms: Geometric Representations and Transformations (2006) (2)
Planning Algorithms: System Theory and Analytical Techniques (2006) (2)
Evasion with Bounded Speed − − Visibility-based Pursuit (2008) (2)
Learning Combinatorial Information from Alignments of Landmarks (2007) (2)
Algorithms for Planning under Uncertainty in Prediction and Sensing (2006) (2)
Agglomerative clustering on range data with a unified probabilistic merging function and termination criterion (1993) (2)
Planning Algorithms: Sampling-Based Planning Under Differential Constraints (2006) (2)
Visibility-Inspired Models of Touch Sensors for Navigation (2022) (2)
Chapter 5 Sampling-Based Motion Planning (2006) (2)
Chapter 9 Tracking (2016) (1)
PROGRAMMING IS WRITING: WHY PROGRAMS NEED TO BE CAREFULLY READ (1998) (1)
Mobile Robotics: an Information Space Approach 3.1.1 Observing Obstacles in the Robot's Environment (2013) (1)
Evaluating VR Systems and Experiences (2016) (1)
The Geometry of Virtual Worlds (2016) (1)
An enactivist-inspired mathematical model of cognition (2022) (1)
Planning Algorithms: Planning Under Sensing Uncertainty (2006) (1)
Supplemental Data for Counting Moving Bodies Using Sparse Sensor Beams (2013) (1)
Monofilament whisker-based mobile robot navigation (2021) (1)
Planning Algorithms: Differential Models (2006) (1)
Leaning-Based Control of an Immersive-Telepresence Robot (2022) (1)
Chapter 11 Sensors and Information Spaces (2006) (1)
Algorithms for planning and control of robot motions [TC Spotlight] (2009) (1)
Geometric and Algorithmic Techniques for Design and Verification of Hybrid Control Systems (2005) (1)
Planning Algorithms: Extensions of Basic Motion Planning (2006) (1)
Programming is Writing: Why Student Programs must be Carefully Read (1998) (1)
Planning Algorithms: Discrete Planning (2006) (1)
Chapter 14 Sampling-Based Planning Under Differential Constraints (2007) (1)
Chapter 13 Differential Models (2007) (1)
Computational Geometry and Geometric Computing (2010) (1)
An Information Space View of “Time”: From Clocks to Open-Loop Control (2009) (1)
Localization with Few Distance Measurements (2022) (0)
Chapter 3 The Geometry of Virtual Worlds (2016) (0)
Part I Introductory Material (2008) (0)
Chapter 8 Feedback Motion Planning (2006) (0)
A Study of Preference and Comfort for Users Immersed in a Telepresence Robot (2022) (0)
Intensity-based navigation with global guarantees (2013) (0)
Chapter 7 Visual Rendering (2016) (0)
Sensors and Information Spaces (2020) (0)
Planning Algorithms: Bibliography (2006) (0)
Chapter 4 Light and Optics (2014) (0)
Discriminability of Prediction Artifacts in a Head-Mounted Display (2017) (0)
obot Motion Strategies odds of the Assem (1996) (0)
Com S476/576x Notes # 2 Basic Path Planning for a Point Robot Symbol Name Deenition W World (or Workspace) < 2 (cartesian Plane) a Robot a Point in W O Obstacle Region 1 Cell Decomposition 1.1 Exact Methods (1998) (0)
Chapter 2 Discrete Planning (2006) (0)
Bang-Bang Boosting of RRTs (2022) (0)
Chapter 15 System Theory and Analytical Techniques (2007) (0)
Chapter 8 Motion in Real and Virtual Worlds (2016) (0)
A Hardware and Software Testbed for Underactuated Self-Assembling Robots (2019) (0)
Chapter 2 Bird ’ sEye View (2016) (0)
Szczecin, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Z. Emirsajłow Chairman (2022) (0)
Chapter 10 Interaction (2016) (0)
Bernstein Sparks Workshop: Multi-modal stimulation and virtual realities 2015 (2015) (0)
Extracting Visibility Information by Following Walls (2006) (0)
Quasi-Randomized Path PlanningMi hael (2001) (0)
HI-DWA: Human-Influenced Dynamic Window Approach for Shared Control of a Telepresence Robot (2022) (0)
Chapter 10 Sequential Decision Theory (2007) (0)
- : Mechanics of Manipulation – Paper Review Randomized Kinodynamic Planning (2005) (0)
Chapter 4 The Configuration Space (0)
A Global Adaptive Learning Control for Robotic Manipulators (2005) (0)
Motion Planni 5 . Motion Planning (2008) (0)
Virtual Reality: Full Steam Ahead (2014) (0)
Chapter 11 Audio (2016) (0)
System Theory and Analytical Techniques (2020) (0)
Chapter 6 Visual Perception Chapter Status Taken from Virtual Reality (2016) (0)
Minimal Representation and Decision Making for Networked Autonomous Agents (2015) (0)
Chapter 3 The Geometry of Virtual Worlds Chapter Status Taken from Virtual Reality (2016) (0)
Planning Algorithms: Planning Under Differential Constraints (2006) (0)
Motion in Real and Virtual Worlds (2020) (0)
The Body Scaling Effect and Its Impact on Physics Plausibility (2022) (0)
Chapter 12 Evaluating VR Systems and Experiences (2019) (0)
Bouncing Robots in Rectilinear Polygons (2022) (0)
Planning Algorithms: Sensors and Information Spaces (2006) (0)
Human Perception Engineering (2022) (0)
Chapter 7 Extensions of Basic Motion Planning (2007) (0)
The Plausibility Paradox in Small-Scale Virtual Environments (2019) (0)
The Limits of Learning and Planning: Minimal Sufficient Information Transition Systems (2022) (0)
Planning Algorithms: Preface (2006) (0)
Planning Algorithms: Decision-Theoretic Planning (2006) (0)
Visibility-based with Bounded Speed (2010) (0)
The Physiology of Human Vision (2016) (0)
A Hardware and Software Testbed for Underactuated Self-Assembling Robots: Extended Abstract (2019) (0)
CSL researchers head $ 1 million surveillance network research (0)
Toward a Compositional Theory of Sensor-Based Robotic Systems (2010) (0)
Optimal Navigation for a Differential Drive Disc Robot: A Game Against the Polygonal Environment (2016) (0)
A motion strategy for exploration driven by an automaton activating feedback-based controllers (2019) (0)

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