Directory
Here you will find a list of people working the areas relevant to the technical committee with their areas of interests. We invite you to add yourself and others you think are of interest.
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- Nancy M. Amato. Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University. Research Interests: motion planning, computational biology, computational geometry, animation, CAD, VR; parallel and distributed computing, parallel algorithms, performance modeling and optimization.
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- Kostas Bekris. Physical and Biological Computing Group, Rice University. Research Interests: motion planning, sampling-based algorithms, kinodynamic problems, real-time planning, motion safety, distributed solutions.
- Oliver Brock. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Research Interests: motion generation in dynamic environments, in particular in the context of autonomous mobile manipulation; sampling-based motion planning; applications of motion planning in structural molecular biology.
- Brendan Burns. Department of Computer Science, Union College Research Interests : motion planning in the real world; sampling-based motion planning; autonomous systems; motion planning in games.
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- Howie Choset. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon. Research Interests: undulatory locomotion; topological path planning with applications to SLAM, coverage, and hybrid controls; mechanism design, including snake, free-falling and medical robots; and education with robots.
- Juan Cortes. Robotics and AI. LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse. Research Interests: Path planning, Manipulation planning, Sampling-based algorithms, Closed-chain mechanisms, Structural bioinformatics.
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- Duygun Erol. Research Interests: rehabilitation robotics, humanoid robotics, intelligent control systems, high-level planners.
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- Thierry Fraichard. INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes. Research Interests: motion planning, autonomous navigation, intelligent vehicles, dynamic environments, motion safety.
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- Ken Goldberg. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUC Berkeley. Research Interests: Robotics. Automation Science and Engineering. Networked Robots. Algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping and Assembly. Design of Parts and Devices for Automation. Art.
- Roland Geraerts. Department of Information & Computing sciences, Utrecht University. Research Interests: Sampling-based motion planning, path quality
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- Tsutomu Hasegawa. Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University. Research Interests: motion and task planning for dexterous manipulation and telerobotics; multi-fingered hand with soft skin; ambient intelligence; 3D geometric modelling.
- David Hsu. School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Research Interests: probabilistic motion planning, motion planning under uncertainty, computational biology
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- Reza Iraji. Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology. Research Interests: Motion Planning; Simultaneous Localization and Mapping; Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition; Video and Image Processing.
- Volkan Isler. Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research Interests: pursuit-evasion games; motion planning in dynamic and complex environments; robotic sensor networks; human-robot interaction.
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- Nikhil Karnad. Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research Interests: pursuit-evasion games; motion planning; computational geometry; robotic sensor networks.
- Lydia Kavraki. The Physical and Biological Computing Group, Department of Computer Science, Rice University. Research Interests: Robotics; Motion Planning for Systems with Complex Dynamics; Physics-based Simulation and Planning; Applications to Structural Computational Biology.
- Young J. Kim. Graphics Group, Dept. of Computer Science and EngineeringEwha Womans University. Research Interests: Collision Detection. Motion Planning. 6DOF Haptics. Geometric and Physically-based Modeling.
- James Kuffner. The Robotics Institute, School of Computer ScienceCarnegie Mellon University. Research Interests: Motion Planning. Humanoid Robotics. Computer Graphics and Animation.
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- Steven LaValle
- Jyh-Ming Lien. Tele-Immersion Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. Research Interests: computational geometry; computer graphics; and robotics.
- Li, Yi.Robotic Algorithms and Motion Planning (RAMP) Lab, Simon Fraser University. Research Interests: Motion Planning of Multiple Agents in Virtual Environments.
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- Matt Mason.Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon. Research Interests: Manipulation, motion planning, mobile robot planning and control.
- Javier Minguez. Department of Computer Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain. Research Interests: motion (planning, estimation and evaluation) for mobile robots. Human-machine interfaces and robot control using human biological parameters.
- Mark Moll Department of Computer Science, Rice University. Research Interests: motion planning, computational geometry, applications to computational structural biology.
- Marco Morales Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University. Research Interests: motion planning, computational geometry, computational biology, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, architectures, and parallel computing.
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- Jason O'Kane Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina. Research Interests: sensor-based algorithmic robotics, planning under uncertainty, artificial intelligence, computational geometry, sensor networks, multiple robot coordination, motion planning
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- Roland Philippsen Robotics and AI Lab, Stanford University. Research Interests: fusing abstract with geometric planning, path planning on costmaps, interweaving perception planning and execution, integration and interoperability of robotic software
- Erion Plaku Department of Computer Science, Rice University. Research Interests: kinodynamic and high-dimensional motion planning, hybrid-system testing, high-dimensional searching, proximity algorithms, dimensionality reduction, data mining, computational geometry, computer graphics, distributed computing
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- Subramanian Ramamoorthy, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh. Research Interests: Machine learning and artificial intelligence with a view toward planning and control in dynamically dexterous robotics, autonomous agent design and biology.
- Nicholas Roy, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, The Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT. Research Interests: Planning under uncertainty, motion planning in GPS-denied environments, exploration and active learning
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- Thierry Simeon. Robotics and AI group. LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse. Research Interests: Motion planning and control, Manipulation planning, Motion for closed-chain mechanisms, Sampling-based motion planning, Applications to computational structural biology.
- Morten Strandberg. ABB Corporate Research. Research Interests: path planning, robot control, collision detection, and object-oriented modeling.
- Jeffrey Sullivan The RAND Corporation. Research Interests: non-linear estimation, planning and control for semi- and autonomous systems, human-robot interfaces, modeling and simulation for large, complex systems.
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- Xinyu Tang. Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University. Research Interests: motion planning, computational biology, computational geometry, computer graphics and animation, CAD.
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- Huifang Wang. Beijing University of Technology. Research Interests: Motion planning and control, hybrid dynamic systems, nonlinear control and optimal control.
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- Yuandong Yang. Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Research Interests: motion generation autonomous mobile manipulation.
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- Liang-Jun Zhang. GAMMA, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research Interests: motion planning, collision detection, proximity query; geometric and physically-based modeling.