Publications of Jean-Claude Latombe
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General

Representation of Kinematic Structures

Collision Detection

Probabilistic Roadmaps

Robot Placement

Planning Multi-Goal Tours
Multi-Robot Planning
Rock-Climbing Robots
Humanoid Robots
Manipulation Planning
Kinodynamic Motion Planning
Motion Planning with Uncertainty

Integration of Sensing and Planning
Motion Planning with Visibility Constraints
Assembly Planning
Computer-Assisted Surgery
Computational Structural Biology
Digital Actors
Architectural Design

 

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General

  • Robot Motion Planning. J.C. Latombe. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1991.
  • Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. K. Goldberg, D. Halperin, J.C. Latombe, and R.H. Wilson (eds.). AK Peters, Wellesley, MA, 1995.
  • Controllability, Recognizability, and Complexity Issues in Robot Motion Planning. J.C. Latombe. Proc. 36th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 484-500, 1995.
  • Robotics. D. Halperin, L.E. Kavraki, and J.C. Latombe. CRC Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, J.E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke (eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, Chapter 41, pp. 755-778, 1997.
  • Robot Algorithms. D. Halperin, L.E. Kavraki, and J.C. Latombe. Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, M.J. Atallah (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, Chapter 21, pp. 21-1--21-21, 1999.
  • Motion Planning: A Journey of Robots, Molecules, Digital Actors, and Other Artifacts. J.C. Latombe. Int. J. of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Robotics at the Millennium -- Part I, 18(11):1119-1128, November 1999.
  • Robotics. D. Halperin, L.E. Kavraki, and J.C. Latombe. CRC Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, J.E. Goodman and J. O'Rourke (eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, Chapter 41, pp. 1065-1093, 2004.
  • Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics IX. D. Hsu, V. Isler, J.C. Latombe, and M.C. Lin (eds.), Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 68, Springer, 2011.

 

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Representation of Kinematic Structures

 

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Collision Detection

 

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Probabilistic Roadmaps

 

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Robot Placement

 

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Planning Multi-Goal Tours

 

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Multi-Robot Planning

 

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Rock-Climbing Robots

  • Motion Planning for a Three-Limbed Climbing Robot in Vertical Natural Terrain. T. Bretl, S.M. Rock, and J.C. Latombe, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003.
  • Climbing Robots in Natural Terrain. T. Bretl, T. Miller, S.M. Rock, and J.C. Latombe, 7th Int. Symp. on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, Nara, Japan, May 2003.
  • Toward Autonomous Free-Climbing Robots. T. Bretl, J.C. Latombe, and S. Rock. 11th Int. Symp. on Robotics Research, Siena, Italy, Oct. 19-22, 2003. Published in P. Dario and R. Chatila (eds.), Robotics Research, Springer, pp. 6-15, 2005.
  • Free-Climbing with a Multi-Use Robot. T. Bretl, S.M. Rock, J.C. Latombe, B. Kennedy, and H. Aghazarian. 9th Int. Symp. on Experimental Robotics, Singapore, 18-21 June 2004.
  • Multi-Step Motion Planning for Free-Climbing Robots. T. Bretl, S. Lall, J.C. Latombe, S.M. Rock. 6th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR04), Utrecht/Zeist, The Netherlands, July 11-13, 2004. Published in Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VI, M. Erdmann, M. Overmars, D. Hsu, F. van der Stappen (eds.), Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 17, Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005.
  • Learning-Assisted Multi-Step Planning. K. Hauser, T. Bretl, J.C. Latombe. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
  • Motion Planning for a Six-Legged Lunar Robot. K. Hauser, T. Bretl, J.C. Latombe, and B. Wilcox. Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), New-York, NY, July 2006. Published in Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 47, pp. 301-316, 2008.
  • Capuchin: A Free-Climbing Robot. R. Zhang and J.C. Latombe. Int. J. of Advanced Robotic Systems, E. Masehian (Ed.), ISBN:1729-8806, InTech, DOI:10.5772/56469, 2013.

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Humanoid and Legged Robots

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Manipulation Planning

 

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Kinodynamic Motion Planning

 

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Motion Planning with Uncertainty

 

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Integration of Sensing and Planning

  • Leaving Flatland: Toward Real-Time 3D Navigation. B. Morisset, R. Bogdan Rusu, A. Sundaresan, K. Hauser, M. Agrawal, J.C. Latombe, and M. Beetz. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009.
  • Leaving Flatland: Efficient Real-Time 3D Perception and Motion Planning. R. Bogdan Rusu, A. Sundaresan, B. Morisset, K. Hauser, M. Agrawal1, J.C. Latombe, and M. Beetz. Int. J. of Field Robotics, 26(10):841-862, 2009.
  • Appearance-based Motion Strategies for Object Detection. I. Becerra, L. Valentin, R. Murrieta-Cid and J.C. Latombe, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, May 31 - June 7, 2014.

 

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Motion Planning with Visibility Constraints

 

Autonomous observer:

  • An Intelligent Observer. C. Becker, H. Gonzalez-Banos, J.C. Latombe, and C. Tomasi. In Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 223, O. Khatib and J.K. Salisbury (eds.), Springer, New York, NY, pp. 153-160, 1997
  • Motion Planning with Visibility Constraints: Building Autonomous Observers. H.H. Gonzalez-Banos, L.J. Guibas, J.C. Latombe, S.M. LaValle, D. Lin, R. Motwani, and C. Tomasi. In Robotics Research - The Eighth International Symposium, Y. Shirai and S. Hirose (eds.) Springer, pp. 95-101, 1998.
  • The Autonomous Observer: A Tool for Remote Experimentation in Robotics. H.H. Gonzalez-Banos, J.L. Gordillo, D. Lin, J.C. Latombe, A. Sarmiento, and C. Tomasi. Proc. SPIE Conf. on Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies, Vol. 3840, pp. 210-221, Nov. 1999. (html file.)

 

Target finding:

 

Target tracking:

 

Map/model building:

 

Sensor placement/Art gallery:

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Assembly Planning

 

 

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Computer-Assisted Surgery

 

Radiosurgical planning:

 

Soft tissue simulation:

 

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Computational Structural Biology

 

Kinematics and Structure:

 

Finding similarities:

 

Motion pathways:

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Digital Actors

 

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Architectural Design