**Meet the editor**

Rastislav Róka was born in Šaľa, Slovakia, on January 27, 1972. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Telecommunications from the Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, in 1995 and 2002. Since 1997, he has been working as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Multimedia Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information

Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Since 2009, he has been working as an associated professor at this institute. His teaching and educational activities are realized in areas of fixed transmission media, designing, and planning of telecommunication networks and optical communication transmission systems. At present, his research activity is focused on signal transmission through optical transport and metropolitan and access networks using advanced optical signal processing including various multiplexing, modulation, and encoding techniques. His main effort is dedicated to effective utilization of the optical fiber's transmission capacity in broadband optical networks by means of dynamic bandwidth and wavelength allocation algorithms applied in various advanced hybrid passive optical network infrastructures.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Innocent Okoloko

**Avoidance 25** Innocent Okoloko

Innocent Okoloko

**Autonomous Systems 63** An T. Le and Than D. Le

**Section 1 Advanced Algorithms for Multi-Path Planning 1**

**Using Linear Matrix Inequalities 3**

**LMI-Based Exclusion Constraints 45**

**Section 2 Extended Path Planning for Mobile Robots 105**

Carlos Villaseñor and Carlos López-Franco

Chapter 7 **Path Planning Based on Parametric Curves 125**

Sánchez and Antonio Falcó Montesinos

Chapter 6 **Path Planning in Rough Terrain Using Neural**

**Network Memory 107**

Chapter 4 **Search-Based Planning and Replanning in Robotics and**

Chapter 5 **Path Planning on Quadric Surfaces and Its Application 91**

Chi-Chia Sun, Gene Eu Jan, Chaomin Lu and Kai-Chieh Yang

Nancy Arana-Daniel, Roberto Valencia-Murillo, Alma Y. Alanís,

Lucía Hilario Pérez, Marta Covadonga Mora Aguilar, Nicolás Montés

Chapter 1 **Consensus-Based Multipath Planning with Collision Avoidance**

Chapter 3 **Multi-Spacecraft Attitude Path Planning Using Consensus with**

Chapter 2 **Multi-Path Planning on a Sphere with LMI-Based Collision**
