C. Laugier

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C. Laugier is a distinguished robotics researcher whose work spans motion planning, autonomous navigation, and dynamic simulation, with particular impact on how robots perceive and interact with their environments. Perhaps most notably, Laugier co-authored the landmark 2014 survey "From Proxemics Theory to Socially-Aware Navigation," which has accumulated an impressive 373 citations and stands as a foundational reference for researchers developing robots capable of navigating human-populated spaces with social intelligence. Beyond social robotics, Laugier has made significant contributions to real-time motion planning in dynamic environments, introducing the Non-Linear Velocity Obstacle concept as a computationally efficient solution to a longstanding challenge in autonomous robot movement. His 2002 work on path-velocity decomposition further advanced trajectory planning for car-like robots operating under realistic physical constraints. Laugier also dedicated considerable effort to dynamic simulation, developing sophisticated models for deformable robot fingertips, adaptive time-step algorithms, and parameter identification techniques that bring physical realism to robot-environment interaction studies. His research on all-terrain vehicle planning demonstrates a consistent commitment to bridging theoretical motion planning with practical physical constraints. Across more than two decades, Laugier's contributions have meaningfully shaped both the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of autonomous robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   From Proxemics Theory to Socially-Aware Navigation: A Survey

   373 citations · 2014
2. 2
   Towards real-time global motion planning in a dynamic environment using the NLVO concept

   62 citations · 2003
3. 3
   Path-velocity decomposition revisited and applied to dynamic trajectory planning

   58 citations · 2002
4. 4
   Dynamic simulation and virtual control of a deformable fingertip

   31 citations · 2002
5. 5
   Parameter identification for dynamic simulation

   30 citations · 2002
6. 6
   A kinematic simulator for motion planning of a mobile robot on a terrain

   14 citations · 2002
7. 7
   Adaptive time step for fast converging dynamic simulation system

   11 citations · 2002
8. 8
   Planning the motions of an all-terrain vehicle by using geometric and physical models

   7 citations · 2002
9. 9
   Kinodynamic planning in a structured and time-varying workspace

   6 citations · 1993
10. 10
    Fast dynamic simulation of rigid and deformable objects

    5 citations · 2002

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