| 2009 | ICNC | Model-Free Learning and Control in a Mobile Robot. | Brandon Rohrer, Michael L. Bernard, J. Daniel Morrow, Fred Rothganger, Patrick G. Xavier |
| 2007 | ICRA | Lazy Reconfiguration Forest (LRF) - An Approach for Motion Planning with Multiple Tasks in Dynamic Environments. | Russell Gayle, Kristopher R. Klingler, Patrick G. Xavier |
| 2002 | ICRA | Implicit Convex-Hull Distance of Finite-Screw-Swept Volumes. | Patrick G. Xavier |
| 2002 | WSC | Plebes, dogs, and robots: the Umbra simulation framework as applied to building HLA federates. | Eric J. Gottlieb, Michael J. McDonald, Fred J. Oppel, J. Brian Rigdon, Patrick G. Xavier |
| 1999 | ICRA | Shortest Path Planning for a Tethered Robot or an Anchored Cable. | Patrick G. Xavier |
| 1997 | ICRA | Fast swept-volume distance for robust collision detection. | Patrick G. Xavier |
| 1996 | ICRA | A generic algorithm for constructing hierarchical representations of geometric objects. | Patrick G. Xavier |
| 1991 | ICRA | Time-safety trade-offs and a bang-bang algorithm for kinodynamic planning. | Bruce Randall Donald, Patrick G. Xavier |
| 1989 | ICRA | A provably good approximation algorithm for optimal-time trajectory planning. | Bruce Randall Donald, Patrick G. Xavier |
| 1988 | FOCS | On the Complexity of Kinodynamic Planning | John F. Canny, Bruce Randall Donald, John H. Reif, Patrick G. Xavier |