Planning Algorithms Steven M. LaValle is an English-language textbook that focuses on planning algorithms within technical disciplines. The book is intended for students and professionals in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and control engineering.
This extensive and coherent edition covers robot motion planning, planning in discrete spaces, and planning under uncertainty, including decision theory and Markov decision processes. It also goes in depth into planning under differentiable constraints, relevant for automating mechanical systems.
The content is interdisciplinary and connects topics from robotics, computer graphics, aerospace applications, computational biology, and algorithms. This makes the book suitable as a reference work and educational resource for technical programs and research initiatives.
Topics such as planning algorithms, including applications in robotics and aerospace applications, are content-wise linked to computer graphics and data science, covering a broad range of application areas.