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

- 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 \htmlonly
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  #### BibTeX

      @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}
      }

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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:

- 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. \htmlonly
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  #### BibTeX

      @article{sucan2012the-open-motion-planning-library,
          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}
      }

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