Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!csli!cphoenix From: cphoenix@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Help: path planning/model of environment Message-ID: <16024@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 25 Oct 90 06:48:57 GMT References: <418@pdxgate.UUCP> Reply-To: cphoenix@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 30 In article martins@hplhasm.hpl.hp.com (Henrique Martins) writes: > There is a good reference book, coming out in November, from Prof. >Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, titled "Robot Motion Planning". >It will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA. If you >don't find what you want in the book, you will have there pointers to many >other papers and books on the subject. I took a class from Prof. Latombe last spring using a draft of the book. Even though I didn't have all the prerequisites, particularly the topology, I found that the book was easy to understand and grasp intuitively, but it also gave enough details to implement the algorithms and prove that they worked. I'd recommend it for high-level undergrads on up, to learn from and work from. The algorithms were usually based on prior knowledge of the world, though some (particularly potential field) could be adapted for more reactive behavior. The book, at least the part we worked from, did not go much into interpreting or planning from sensor data. 1) Yes, I am working for Jean-Claude Latombe now. But I will not get paid for writing this, and he doesn't know that I am. If I shouldn't have written this, scream at me and I won't do it again. 2) Any misrepresentations are my own fault. -- War is a little naked kid running along a road and screaming because the napalm hurts so bad. War is young men in body bags -- theirs and ours. And the dying doesn't necessarily have anything to do with baseball, apple pie and the Grand Old Flag. -- Mike Royko