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In article <MARTINS.90Oct24092815@hplhasm.hpl.hp.com> 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.

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