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Researcher · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · United States

Steven M. LaValle

Steven M. LaValle publishes mostly in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization and AI-based Problem Solving and Planning.

ORCID 0000-0003-4841-2584 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,234
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,006
of 358,040
Works
63
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
20.3

What does Steven M. LaValle research?

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 22.9%Control and Systems Engineering: 16.9%Aerospace Engineering: 15.7%Artificial Intelligence: 12.0%other fields: 32.5%23%top field
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition22.9%Control and Systems Engineering16.9%Aerospace Engineering15.7%Artificial Intelligence12.0%other fields32.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition23% of their works
  2. 2Control and Systems Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering16% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence12% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications6% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steven M. LaValle's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Optimal Motion Planning, Sampling-Based Algorithms, Mobile Robots, 3D Mapping, SLAM, Heuristic Search, Planning Systems and AdWords Problem.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Optimal Motion Planning181 topic
  2. Sampling-Based Algorithms181 topic
  3. Mobile Robots142 topics
  4. 3D Mapping91 topic
  5. SLAM91 topic
  6. Heuristic Search61 topic
  7. Planning Systems61 topic
  8. AdWords Problem51 topic
  9. Modular Robots51 topic
  10. Online Algorithms51 topic
  11. Self-Reconfiguration51 topic
  12. Control41 topic
  13. Grasping41 topic
  14. Kinematic Analysis41 topic
  15. Missile Guidance41 topic
  16. Robot Learning41 topic
  17. Robot Manipulators41 topic

Where does Steven M. LaValle work?

Steven M. LaValle's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States.

How many publications and citations does Steven M. LaValle have?

Science Explorer counts 63 works and 1,278 citations for Steven M. LaValle, ranking #6,234 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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