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Overview

Jean-Paul Laumond is affiliated with École Normale Supérieure in France and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly in areas involving robotics and human-robot interaction. Their research spans multiple subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, artificial intelligence, and aerospace engineering.

Key topics in their work include:

  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Recent publications by Jean-Paul Laumond showcase a blend of technical and interdisciplinary approaches across robotics and social communication. Some notable papers are:

  • "Learning Obstacle Representations for Neural Motion Planning," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Roboticists and Reporters: A rhetorical experiment at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Paris, France)," 2020, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • "Talking about moving machines," 2022, Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
  • "Decidability in robot manipulation planning," 2020, Autonomous Robots
  • "Talking about moving machines: An argumentative perspective," 2022, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, including:

  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Autonomous Robots
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Jean-Paul Laumond frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Céline Pieters
  • Emmanuelle Danblon
  • Philippe Souères
  • Robin Strudel
  • Ricardo García

Their multidisciplinary research integrates robotic path planning with cognitive and social dimensions of human-robot interaction, employing natural language processing and computer vision techniques to advance understanding in these areas.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines in nonholonomic motion planning for mobile robots

    J. P. Laumond;S. Sekhavat;F. Lamiraux

  • Robot Motion Planning and Control

    Jean-Paul P. Laumond

  • Position referencing and consistent world modeling for mobile robots

    R. Chatila;J. Laumond

  • A motion planner for nonholonomic mobile robots

    J.-P. Laumond;P.E. Jacobs;M. Taix;R.M. Murray

  • Stabilization of trajectories for systems with nonholonomic constraints

    G. Walsh;D. Tilbury;S. Sastry;R. Murray

  • From human to humanoid locomotion--an inverse optimal control approach

    Katja Mombaur;Anh Truong;Jean-Paul Laumond

  • Visibility-based probabilistic roadmaps for motion planning

    Thierry Siméon;Jean-Paul Laumond;Carole Nissoux

  • Shortest paths synthesis for a car-like robot

    P. Soueres;J.-P. Laumond

  • Manipulation Planning with Probabilistic Roadmaps

    Thierry Siméon;Jean-Paul Laumond;Juan Cortés;Anis Sahbani

  • Controllability of a multibody mobile robot

    J.-P. Laumond

  • Feasible Trajectories for Mobile Robots with Kinematic and Environment Constraints

    Jean-Paul Laumond

  • Path coordination for multiple mobile robots: a resolution-complete algorithm

    T. Simeon;S. Leroy;J.-P. Lauumond

  • Shortest path synthesis for Dubins non-holonomic robot

    Xuan-Nam Bui;J.-D. Boissonnat;P. Soueres;J.-P. Laumond

  • An Optimality Principle Governing Human Walking

    G. Arechavaleta;J.-P. Laumond;H. Hicheur;A. Berthoz

  • Dynamic path modification for car-like nonholonomic mobile robots

    M. Khatib;H. Jaouni;R. Chatila;J.P. Laumond

  • Two manipulation planning algorithms

    R. Alami;J. P. Laumond;T. Siméon

  • Primitives for smoothing mobile robot trajectories

    S. Fleury;P. Soueres;J.-P. Laumond;R. Chatila

  • Visibility based probabilistic roadmaps

    C. Nissoux;T. Simeon;J.-P. Laumond

  • Motion planning and control for Hilare pulling a trailer

    F. Lamiraux;S. Sekhavat;J.-P. Laumond

  • Finding collision-free smooth trajectories for a non-holonomic mobile robot

    Jean-Paul Laumond

  • A random loop generator for planning the motions of closed kinematic chains using PRM methods

    J. Cortes;T. Simeon;J.P. Laumond

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiichi Yoshida
Eiichi Yoshida Tokyo University of Science
Fumio Kanehiro
Fumio Kanehiro National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Rachid Alami
Rachid Alami Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Kazuhito Yokoi
Kazuhito Yokoi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Seth Hutchinson
Seth Hutchinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Giuseppe Oriolo
Giuseppe Oriolo Sapienza University of Rome
Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray California Institute of Technology
Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley
Cyrill Stachniss
Cyrill Stachniss University of Bonn
Kensuke Harada
Kensuke Harada Osaka University

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