| 2002 | Fast Penetration Depth Estimation Using Rasterization Hardware and Hierarchical Refinement. | Young J. Kim, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha |
| 2002 | Computation on Parametric Curves with Applications in Localization and Grasping. | Yan-Bin Jia |
| 2002 | Algorithms for Rapidly Dispersing Robot Swarms in Unknown Environments. | Tien-Ruey Hsiang, Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sndor P. Fekete, Joseph S. B. Mitchell |
| 2002 | Hybrid Motion Planning: Coordinating Two Discs Moving among Polygonal Obstacles in the Plane. | Shai Hirsch, Dan Halperin |
| 2002 | Shape Complexes for Metamorhpic Robots. | Robert Ghrist |
| 2002 | A Comparative Study of Probabilistic Roadmap Planners. | Roland Geraerts, Mark H. Overmars |
| 2002 | Constraint-Based Motion Planning Using Voronoi Diagrams. | Maxim Garber, Ming C. Lin |
| 2002 | Online Scan Coverage of Grid Environments by a Mobile Robot. | Yoav Gabriely, Elon Rimon |
| 2002 | Trajectory Planning for Kinematically Controllable Underactuated Mechanical Systems. | Prasun Choudhury, Kevin M. Lynch |
| 2002 | Flexonics. | John F. Canny, Jeremy Risner, Vivek Subramanian |
| 2002 | Distributed Motion Planning for 3D Modular Robots with Unit-Compressible Modules. | Zack J. Butler, Daniela Rus |
| 2002 | Expected Shortest Paths for Landmark-Based Robot Navigation. | Amy J. Briggs, Carrick Detweiler, Daniel Scharstein, Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes |
| 2002 | Distributed Manipulation with Rolling Contact. | Mark Bedillion, William C. Messner |
| 2002 | Better Group Behaviors Using Rule-Based Roadmaps. | O. Burhan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato |
| 2002 | Stochastic Conformational Roadmaps for Computing Ensemble Properties of Molecular Motion. | Mehmet Serkan Apaydin, Douglas L. Brutlag, Carlos Guestrin, David Hsu, Jean-Claude Latombe |
| 2002 | A Near-Quadratic Algorithm for Fence Design. | Pankaj K. Agarwal, Robert-Paul Berretty, Anne D. Collins |
| 2002 | Sensor-Based Coverage: Incremental Construction of Cellular Decompositions. | Ercan U. Acar, Howie Choset |