Robot motion and manipulation planning, sampling-based planning algorithms, automomous navigation and mobile manipulation, motion of complex closed-chain mechanisms, multiple robots, dynamic environments, human-robot interactions, aerial robotics, applications of motion planning to structural bioinformatics.

• Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion, IEEE RAS Tech. Committee
  
• Workshop on Motion in Virtual Worlds, LAAS, Jan. 7-8, 2005
  
• KINEO Computer Aided Motion, a spin-off from LAAS
  
• Planning Algorithms, free-book by Steve Lavalle,2006