Steven M. LaValle
Professor
Studies robotics and motion planning, including sensing, filtering and virtual reality.
Steven M. LaValle's lab at UIUC works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, robot perception & SLAM and VR, AR & immersive media. 32 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly CDC and ICRA. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 13%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 1
- 9 papers2024 · T1 0
- 7 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CDC, ICRA, IJRR, IROS, ISMAR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- VR, AR & immersive media10 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems6 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM5 papers
- studies robotics0 papers
- filtering0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied PerceptionEstimating the curvature of visual space in virtual reality using an exocentric pointing task
- Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied PerceptionPersistent biases in gravity perception at altered scale in virtual reality despite interactive priming
- Proc. European Control ConferencePlanning smooth and safe control laws for a unicycle robot among obstacles
- Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied PerceptionSemantics drive noticing rates in realistic change blindness scenarios
- RA-LSmooth feedback motion planning with reduced curvature
- CDCThe minkowski wrap: A relativistic speed limiter
- Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied PerceptionUsers rely on a body-centric model to assess gravity in virtual reality
- NeuroImageVirtual body ownership affects the processing of sensorimotor contingencies and goal-oriented information extraction, but not semantics
20258 papers
- Proc. IEEE Conference on TelepresenceDeformation of the panoramic sphere into an ellipsoid to induce self-motion in telepresence users
- Virtual RealityFrom ”Skype on wheels” to embodied telepresence: A holistic approach to improving the user experience of telepresence robots
- Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, XVILocalization with single or antipodal distance measurements
- Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, XVIMinimally sufficient structures for information-feedback policies
- Proc. European Control ConferenceOptimal control of sensor-induced illusions on robotic agents
- Proc. IEEE Conference on TelepresenceSharing but not caring: Similar outcomes for shared control and switching control in telepresence-robot navigation
- Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, XVIUniversal plans: One action sequence to solve them all!
- ISMAR (T1)Unwinding rotations reduces VR sickness in nonsimulated immersive telepresence
20249 papers
- ACM Transactions on Applied PerceptionAdaptation to simulated hypergravity in a virtual reality throwing task
- CICCorresponding colors in virtual reality: A proof of concept
- Annual Reviews on Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsFrom virtual reality to the emerging discipline of perception engineering
- Proc. IEEE Conference on TelepresenceImproving immersive telepresence locomotion by using a virtual environment as an interface to a physical environment (VEIPE)
- Proc. IEEE Conference on TelepresenceInvestigating a simple technique to alter viewpoint height in immersive 360° video
- IEEE Sensors JournalSeparating intrinsic and extrinsic responses of whisker sensors using accelerometer
- Proc. IEEE/IFAC International Workshop on Robot Motion and ControlSystematic escape using billiard moves
- Frontiers in Virtual RealityThe cat is out of the bag: The effect of virtual characters and scale cues on physics coherence
- EMS Series in Industrial and Applied MathematicsTopology, Geometry and AI
20237 papers
- IJRR (T1)A mathematical characterization of minimally sufficient robot brains
- International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and RoboticsArithmetic billiard paths revisited: Escaping from a rectangular room
- IROS (T1)Bang-bang boosting of RRTs
- Virtual RealityCambridge University Press, 2023
- ICRA (T1)Sensor localization by few distance measurements via the intersection of implicit manifolds
- Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, XVThe limits of learning and planning: Minimal sufficient information transition systems
- TVCGVirtual reality sickness reduces attention during immersive experiences
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
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- USD 90
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