Some of the people dealing with Motion Planning and/or Robotics

Michael S. Branicky
Oliver Brock
Nancy Amato
Juan Cortes
Thierry Fraichard
David Hsu
Seth Hutchinson
Lydia E. Kavraki
Oussama Khatib
James J. Kuffner
Jean-Claude Latombe
Florent Lamiraux
Christian Laugier
Jean-Paul Laumond
Steven M. Lavalle
Ming C. Lin
Kevin Lynch
Mark Overmars
Thierry Siméon