Alain Lambert

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Alain Lambert is a robotics researcher whose work centers on autonomous mobile robot navigation, with a particular focus on safe path planning under uncertainty, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and embedded systems for robotics. His most influential contributions address a fundamental challenge in autonomous navigation: how robots can plan reliable, safe paths when their knowledge of their own position and surrounding environment is inherently uncertain. Lambert's seminal work on safe path planning in uncertain-configuration spaces, developed through the early 2000s and extended using Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) in 2006, earned him over 130 combined citations and established him as a key voice in probabilistic motion planning. By integrating Extended Kalman Filter localization with path planning algorithms, his research provided practical frameworks for car-like robots operating in real indoor environments. His later work expanded into efficient real-time SLAM implementation on multi-core embedded systems, demonstrating a commitment to making sophisticated algorithms computationally feasible for deployment. More recently, he has explored interval constraint propagation for consistent vehicle localization and 3D convex decomposition for safe corridor generation, reflecting a continuously evolving research agenda. Across two decades, Lambert's contributions have meaningfully advanced the field of dependable autonomous robot navigation.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Safe Path Planning in an Uncertain-Configuration Space using RRT

   81 citations · 2006
2. 2
   Safe path planning in an uncertain-configuration space

   49 citations · 2004
3. 3
   Safe Task Planning Integrating Uncertainties and Local Maps Federations

   46 citations · 2000
4. 4
   Real time simultaneous localization and mapping: towards low-cost multiprocessor embedded systems

   24 citations · 2012
5. 5
   Efficient implementation of EKF-SLAM on a multi-core embedded system

   19 citations · 2012
6. 6
   Landmark-based safe path planning for car-like robots

   15 citations · 2002
7. 7
   A Low-Cost Consistent Vehicle Localization Based on Interval Constraint Propagation

   14 citations · 2018
8. 8
   Design and evaluation of an embedded system based SLAM applications

   13 citations · 2010
9. 9
   Voxel-Grid Based Convex Decomposition of 3D Space for Safe Corridor Generation

   12 citations · 2022
10. 10
    Safe actions and observations planning for mobile robots

    11 citations · 2003

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