Citations {#citations}

If you use OMPL in your research, we kindly ask you to include the following citation in your publications:

• Ioan A. Șucan, Mark Moll, Lydia E. Kavraki, The Open Motion Planning Library, _IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine,_ 19(4):72--82, December 2012. https://ompl.kavrakilab.org \htmlonly
  
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  @article{sucan2012the-open-motion-planning-library,
      Author = {Ioan A. {\c{S}}ucan and Mark Moll and Lydia E. Kavraki},
      Doi = {10.1109/MRA.2012.2205651},
      Journal = {{IEEE} Robotics \& Automation Magazine},
      Month = {December},
      Number = {4},
      Pages = {72--82},
      Title = {The {O}pen {M}otion {P}lanning {L}ibrary},
      Note = {\url{https://ompl.kavrakilab.org}},
      Volume = {19},
      Year = {2012}
  }

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If you use the OMPL Python bindings, then we kindly ask you to include the following citation in your publications:

• Weihang Guo, Theodoros Tyrovouzis, and Lydia E. Kavraki, Python Bindings for a Large C++ Robotics Library: The Case of OMPL, _2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)_. IEEE, 2026. \htmlonly
  
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  @inproceedings{guo2026ompl-python,
      Author = {Weihang Guo and Theodoros Tyrovouzis and Lydia E. Kavraki},
      Title = {Python Bindings for a Large C++ Robotics Library: The Case of OMPL},
      Booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      Year = {2026}
  }

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If you use the OMPL benchmarking facilities or Planner Arena, then we kindly ask you to include the following citation in your publications:

• Mark Moll, Ioan A. Șucan, Lydia E. Kavraki, Benchmarking Motion Planning Algorithms: An Extensible Infrastructure for Analysis and Visualization, _IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine,_ 22(3):96--102, September 2015. \htmlonly
  
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  @article{moll2015benchmarking-motion-planning-algorithms,
      Author = {Mark Moll and Ioan A. {\c{S}}ucan and Lydia E. Kavraki},
      Doi = {10.1109/MRA.2015.2448276},
      Journal = {{IEEE} Robotics \& Automation Magazine},
      Month = {September},
      Number = {3},
      Pages = {96--102},
      Title = {Benchmarking Motion Planning Algorithms: An Extensible Infrastructure for Analysis and Visualization},
      Volume = {22},
      Year = {2015}
  }

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If you use the constrained planning capabilities of OMPL, then we kindly ask you to include the following citation in your publications:

• Zachary Kingston, Mark Moll, and Lydia E. Kavraki, Exploring Implicit Spaces for Constrained Sampling-Based Planning, _International Journal of Robotics Research,_ 38(10–11):1151–1178, September 2019. \htmlonly
  
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  @article{kingston2019exploring-implicit-spaces-for-constrained,
    author = "Kingston, Zachary and Moll, Mark and Kavraki, Lydia E.",
    doi = "10.1177/0278364919868530",
    journal = "Intl.\ J.\ of Robotics Research",
    month = sep,
    number = "10--11",
    pages = "1151--1178",
    title = "Exploring Implicit Spaces for Constrained Sampling-Based Planning",
    volume = "38",
    year = "2019"
  }

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If you use the VAMP SIMD acceleration feature, then we kindly ask you to include the following citation in your publications:

• Wil Thomason, Zachary Kingston, and Lydia E. Kavraki, “Motions in Microseconds via Vectorized Sampling-Based Planning,” in _IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),_ 2024, pp. 8749–8756. \htmlonly
  
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  @inproceedings{thomason2024vamp,
    author = "Thomason, Wil and Kingston, Zachary and Kavraki, Lydia E.",
    booktitle = "IEEE Intl.\ Conf.\ on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)",
    title = "Motions in Microseconds via Vectorized Sampling-Based Planning",
    year = "2024",
    pages = "8749-8756",
    doi = "10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611190"
  }

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