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In Memoriam: Jean-Paul Laumond
T
he robotics community mourns
Jean-Paul Laumond, a pioneer of
nonholonomic motion planning
and humanoid robotics.
The robotics community mourns
Jean-Paul Laumond, a pioneer of nonholonomic
motion planning and
humanoid robotics.
" Jean-Paul, tell me why do we
have so much trouble to compute
Hilare's trajectories and maneuvers? "
asked Georges Giralt one
morning, late 1985. Hilare was an
experimental robot developed at
LAAS-CNRS (Laboratoire d'analyse
et d'architectures des systèmes Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique)
in Toulouse, France, with
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2022.3144884
Date of current version: 22 March 2022
Figure 1. Jean-Paul Laumond at the
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations
of Robotics, Guanajuato, Mexico (2008).
two motor-driven wheels and a
front free wheel.
" Er... well... because it has
wheels! " says Jean-Paul.
And he got to work developing the theory
of nonholonomic motion planning.
This opened new avenues and immense
possibilities in robotics.
It is a difficult exercise to write this
column about a colleague and a friend.
Jean-Paul Laumond passed away after
a sudden heart attack on 20 December
2021. Born in Donzenac, France, in
1953, he was a high school mathematics
professor when he decided to
undertake a Ph.D. degree with Georges
Giralt at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse,
France, in 1980. After defending his
thesis, he joined the CNRS in 1985 and
spent most of his career at LAAS. He
moved to the Department of Computer
Science of the École Normale
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