Education Backgroud

• 1976 M.S. in Mathematics, University of Paul Sabatier at Toulouse.
• 1984 Ph.D in Robotics, University of Paul Sabatier at Toulouse.
• 1989 Habilitation, University of Paul Sabatier at Toulouse.

Work Experience

• 1976-1983 Teacher in Mathematics in high school.
• 1985 Charge de Recherche at LAAS-CNRS.
• 1990 Senior scientist of Stanford University.
• 1991-1995 Member of the Comite National de la Recherche Scientifique.
• 1992-1995 Coordinator of the European Esprit 3 Basic Research project 6546 PROMotin (Planning Robot Motion)

Publications

• Book Editor

  Geometry and Robotics Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 391, Springer Verlag, 1989.
  Algorithms for Robotics Motion and Manipulation, A.K. Peters Pub.

• Books Contributions

  La Recherche en Intelligence Artificielle, Ed. SEUIL, 1987, pp. 335-364. La Recherche, Vol. 16, N. 170, pp. 1276-1289, Octobre 1985.
  Singularities and topological aspects in nonholonomic motion planning. Progress in Nonholonomic Motion Planning, Li and Canny Eds, Kluwer Ac. Press, 1992.

• Journals Papers (11)
  J.P. Laumond,
  Enumeration of articulation pairs of a planar graph. Information Processing Letters, Vol. 21, N. 4, pp.173-179, Octobre 1985.
  J.P. Laumond,
  Obstacle growing in a nonpolygonal world. Information Processing Letters, Vol. 25, N. 1, pp.41-50, Avril 1987.
  J.P. Laumond,
  Connectivity of plane triangulations. Information Processing Letters, Vol. 34, N 2, pp.87-96, Mars 1990.
  P. Pignon, J.P. Laumond, T. Hasegawa,
  Structuration de l'espace pour la planification hi'erarchique des trajectoires d'un robot mobile. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, Vol. 7 (4), D'ecembre 1993.
  J.P. Laumond,
  Controllability of a multibody mobile robot. IEEE J. on Robotics and and Automation, D'ecembre 1993.
  G. Walsh, D. Tilbury, S.S. Sastry, R. Murray, J.P. Laumond,
  Stabilization of trajectories for systems with nonholonomic constraints IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.39, N. 01, pp.216-222, Janvier 1994.
  P. Sou`eres, J.Y. Fourquet, J.P. Laumond,
  Set of reachable positions for a car IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.39, N. 08, pp.1626-1630, Ao'ut 1994.
  J.P. Laumond, P. Jacobs, M. Tai'x, R. Murray,
  A motion planner for nonholonomic mobile robots IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol.10, N. 05, pp.577-593, Octobre 1994.
  S. Fleury, P. Sou`eres, J.P. Laumond, R. Chatila,
  Primitives for smoothing mobile robot trajectories IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta (USA), 2-6 Mai 1993, pp.832-839
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol.11, N. 03, pp.441-448, Juin 1995.
  J.P. Laumond, J.J. Risler,
  Nonholonomic systems : controllability and complexity Theoretical Computer Science, Vol.157, N. 01, pp.101-114, Avril 1996.
  P. Sou`eres, J.P. Laumond,
  Shortest paths synthesis for a car-like robot IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.41, N. 05, pp.672-688, Mai 1996.

• International Conferences (43)

Major Research Contribution

• Computer Science
  "Connectivity of plane triangulations" Information Processing Letters, Vol. 34, N. 2, pp. 87-96, Mars 1990.
• Control Theory
  "Shortest paths synthesis for a car-like robot" IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 41 N. 05, pp 672-688, 1996.
• Robotics
  "A Motion planner for nonholonomic mobile robots" IEEE Transcation on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, N. 05, pp 577-593, October 1994.

Created by Hongbin Yu for CPSC 643 VIP presentation, December 07, 1996