# Citations

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

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<li> Ioan A. Șucan, Mark Moll, Lydia E. Kavraki, The Open Motion Planning Library, _IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine,_ 19(4):72--82, December 2012. http://ompl.kavrakilab.org
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<div class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" id="sucan2012ompl"><div class="modal-dialog"><div class="modal-content"><div class="modal-header"><button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button><h4 class="modal-title">BibTeX</h4></div><div class="modal-body"><pre>@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{http://ompl.kavrakilab.org}},
    Volume = {19},
    Year = {2012}
}</pre></div></div></div></div>
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If you use the OMPL [benchmarking facilities](benchmark.html) or [Planner Arena](http://plannerarena.org), then we kindly ask you to include the following citation in your publications:
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<li> 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.
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    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}
}</pre></div></div></div></div>
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