Background
Latombe, Jean-Claude was born on May 16, 1947 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Francois and Odile (Pignault) Latombe.
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One of the ultimate goals in Robotics is to create autonomous robots. Such robots will accept high-level descriptions of tasks and will execute them without further human intervention. The input descriptions will specify what the user wants done rather than how to do it. The robots will be any kind of versatile mechanical device equipped with actuators and sensors under the control of a computing system. Making progress toward autonomous robots is of major practical inter est in a wide variety of application domains including manufacturing, construction, waste management, space exploration, undersea work, as sistance for the disabled, and medical surgery. It is also of great technical interest, especially for Computer Science, because it raises challenging and rich computational issues from which new concepts of broad useful ness are likely to emerge. Developing the technologies necessary for autonomous robots is a formidable undertaking with deep interweaved ramifications in auto mated reasoning, perception and control. It raises many important prob lems. One of them - motion planning - is the central theme of this book. It can be loosely stated as follows: How can a robot decide what motions to perform in order to achieve goal arrangements of physical objects? This capability is eminently necessary since, by definition, a robot accomplishes tasks by moving in the real world. The minimum one would expect from an autonomous robot is the ability to plan its x Preface own motions.
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One of the ultimate goals in robotics is the creation of autonomous robots. Such robots will accept high-level descriptions of tasks and will execute them without further human intervention. The input descriptions will specify what the user wants dome rather than how to do it. The robots will be any kind of versatile mechanical device equipped withg actuators and sensors under the control of a computing system. Developing the technologies necesssary for autonomous robots is a formidable undertaking with deeply woven ramifications in automated reasoning, perception and control. "Robot Motion Planning" discusses a central problem in the development of autonomous robots. Motion planning, the central theme of this book, can be loosely defined as follows: how can a robot decide what motions to perform in order to achieve as a goal the arrangement of physical objects? This capability is eminently necessary since, by definition, a robot accomplishes tasks by moving in the real world. The minimum one would expect from an autonomous robot is the ability to plan its own motions. This book is aimed at the graduate level student intending to study further in robotics and spatial reasoning, at researchers in robotics, computer-aided design, computer graphics and computational geometry, and at engineers seeking to develop advanced computer-based systems in design, manufacturing, construction and automation.
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Latombe, Jean-Claude was born on May 16, 1947 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Francois and Odile (Pignault) Latombe.
Latombe received his dual-Engineering Degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (now Grenoble Institute of Technology) in 1969 and 1970, respectively, and a Master of Surgery in electrical engineering in 1972, with the thesis Design of a Computer-Aided Instruction System in Electrical Engineering.
Latombe is a researcher in robot motion planning, and has authored one of the most highly cited books in the field In 1977, Latombe received a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Grenoble with a thesis Artificial Intelligence for Design Automation. He joined the faculty of Grenoble Institute of Technology in 1980, and left in 1984 to join the Industry and Technology for Machine Intelligence (ITMI), a company he co-founded in 1982.
In 1987, Latombe joined Stanford University as an Associate Professor, and have since been the Professor (1992), Chairman (1997–2000), and Kumagai Professor (2001–Present) in the Department of Computer Science.
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Fellow American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Married Claudine Turcat, July 13, 1977. Children: Laurence, Emmanuel.