Planning Algorithms

My cousin. I'll have to let him know he's on the front page.

I'll say this: this is not a beginner book.

Edit: So this is how I learn he is now Principal Scientist at Oculus VR. I need to go to more reunions.

I took a theory of computation class at the U of I by Steve Lavalle. He's a brilliant computer scientist and a very personable professor.

I attended a couple of talk sessions by him when he visited our college. Liked the talks and he is very approachable. Don't know about the book though.

I have to say I was quite confused seeing the author's name, as Stephen Lavelle is also the name of a great indie game dev, who frequently makes use of puzzles in his games.

An excellent book - I used it in a graduate level robotics course.

Big thank you for publishing in multiple page sizes.

Everyone: when you publish in 2-column journal format, almost no one can read your paper -- since we don't use paper anymore! Please publish a single-column version for electronic readers.

what are the math pre-reqs?

Not sure what to do with this, so I'm not up voting it.

Why is this getting up votes? This is 3rd year+ material from applied math and engineering. Some of it is graduate level. I refuse to believe HN is that educated in robotics.