# Steven M. LaValle

Steven M. LaValle
Professor
(217) 265-6313
lavalle@illinois.edu
3318 Siebel Center for Comp Sci

## For More Information

- Prof. LaValle's Home Page

## Education

- Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1995

## Research Statement

Professor LaValle is interested primarily in the design of planning algorithms. His focus is mainly on problems that involve continuous spaces, complicated geometric constraints, differential constraints, and/or sensing uncertainties. Such problems are fundamental in areas such as robotics, computer graphics, architectural design, and computational biology. The planning techniques developed in his research group build on literature from robotics, algorithms, computational geometry, artificial intelligence and control theory.

In addition to algorithm design, Professor LaValle is interested both in theoretical analysis and practical implementation issues. To stimulate the use of planning algorithms in research, education, and industry, he developed the Motion Strategy Library (MSL) together with his students.

## Research Interests

- Robotics, sensing, motion planning, cyber-physical systems, control theory, computational geometry, artificial intelligence, computational biology, computer vision, computer graphics, virtual reality, filtering, sensor fusion, planning algorithms.

## Research Areas

- Artificial Intelligence
- Interactive Computing

## Recent Courses Taught

- CS 598 RR - Representations in Robotics

## Related News

SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Technology Talk with Steven LaValle and Ben Malouf
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After Oculus Rift: Lavalle Returns to Campus
LaValle Named University Scholar

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