Jed Lengyel
Papers
2
Total Citations
315
H-Index
2
About
Jed Lengyel is a pioneering researcher whose work sits at the intersection of computer graphics, robotics, and computational geometry. His most celebrated contribution is the development of a real-time robot motion planner that leverages rasterizing computer graphics hardware—a groundbreaking approach that was decades ahead of its time. By treating motion planning as a rendering problem, Lengyel demonstrated how to achieve fast, resolution-complete pathfinding that guarantees both safety and completeness for polyhedral robots and obstacles. This seminal work, published in 1990, has accumulated over 315 citations across its two versions, underscoring its lasting influence on robotics and hardware-accelerated algorithms. Lengyel’s insight that graphics processing units could be repurposed for general-purpose computation anticipated the modern era of GPU computing. His research remains a touchstone for students and engineers working on real-time autonomous systems, offering a elegant bridge between theoretical guarantees and practical, high-speed implementation.
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Top Papers
- 1Real-time robot motion planning using rasterizing computer graphics hardware219 citations · 1990
- 2Real-time robot motion planning using rasterizing computer graphics hardware96 citations · 1990