Path planning and trajectory planning are crucial issues in the field of Robotics and, more
generally, in the field of Automation. Indeed, the trend for robots and automatic machines is …

Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world,
including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace …

A comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence algorithms and programming organization
for robot systems, combining theoretical rigor and practical applications. This textbook offers …

Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary
field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational …

We construct a sensor-based feedback law that provably solves the real-time collision-free
robot navigation problem in a compact convex Euclidean subset cluttered with unknown but …

Even from casual observation it is apparent that most physical phenomena vary both in
space and time. For example, the temperature of the atmosphere changes continuously at …

Lyapunov design methods are used widely in control engineering to design controllers that
achieve qualitative objectives, such as stabilizing a system or maintaining a system's state in …

Trajectory planning is a fundamental issue for robotic applications and automation in
general. The ability to generate trajectories with given features is a key point to ensure …

In behavior-based robotics the control of a robot is shared between a set of purposive
perception-action units, called behaviors. Based on selective sensory information, each …

Borrowing a concept from hydrodynamic analysis, this paper presents stream functions
which satisfy Laplace's equation as a local-minima free method for producing potential-field …