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Volkan Isler is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota. He is a resident fellow at the Institute on Environment and holds the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a post-doctoral researcher at CITRIS at UC Berkeley. He obtained his MSE (2000) and PhD (2004) degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a member of the GRASP Lab and the Theory Group. He obtained his BS degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. In 2008, he received the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (CAREER). He is currently co-chairing IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on Networked Robots. He is also serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. His research interests are primarily in robotics, sensor networks and geometric algorithms.
Publications
| 2012 | |
| 58 | O. Tekdas, Y. Kumar, V. Isler, R. Janardan Building a Communication Bridge With Mobile Hubs IEEE Tran. on Automation Science and Engineering, 9(1): 171--176, 2012. pdf,prelim.version,.bib |
| 57 | O. Tekdas, D. Bhadauria, V. Isler Efficient Data Collection from Wireless Nodes under the Two-Ring Communication Model International Journal of Robotics Research, 2012. pdf,.bib |
| 56 | J. Vander Hook, P. Tokekar, V. Isler Cautious Greedy Strategy for Bearing-based Active Localization: Experiments and Theoretical Analysis In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2012. pdf,.bib |
| 2011 | |
| 55 | D. Bhadauria, O. Tekdas, V. Isler Robotic Data Mules for Collecting Data over Sparse Sensor Fields Journal of Field Robotics, 28(3): 388--404, 2011. pdf,.bib |
| 54 | T. Chung, G. Hollinger, V. Isler Search and pursuit-evasion in mobile robotics Autonomous Robots(3), 2011. pdf,prelim.version,.bib |
| 53 | D. Bhadauria, V. Isler Capturing an Evader in a Polygonal Environment with Obstacles In 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011. pdf,.bib |
| 52 | P. Tokekar, N. Karnad, V. Isler Energy-Optimal Velocity Profiles for Car-Like Robots In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2011. pdf,.bib |
| 51 | E. Stump, N. Michael, V. Kumar, V. Isler Visibility-Based Deployment of Robot Formations for Communication Maintenance. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2011. pdf,.bib |
| 50 | P. Tokekar, J. Vander Hook, V. Isler Active Target Localization for Bearing Based Robotic Telemetry In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011. pdf,.bib |
| 49 | D.~Bhadauria, V.~Isler, O.~Tekdas Efficient Data Collection from Wireless Nodes under Two-Ring Communication Model Technical Report, No. 11-015, University of Minnesota - Computer Science and Engineering, 2011. pdf,.bib |
| 2010 | |
| 48 | P. Tokekar, D. Bhadauria, A. Studenski, V. Isler A Robotic System for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes Journal of Field Robotics, 27(3): 681--685, 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 47 | O. Tekdas, W. Yang, V. Isler Robotic Routers: Algorithms and Implementation Int. Journal of Robotics Research, 29(1), 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 46 | O. Tekdas, V. Isler Sensor Placement for Triangulation Based Localization IEEE Tran. Automation Science and Engineering, 7(3): 681--685, 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 45 | N. Karnad, V. Isler A Multi-Robot System for Unconfined Video-Conferencing In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 44 | D. Bhadauria, V. Isler, A. Studenski, P. Tokekar A Robotic Sensor Network for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 43 | O. Tekdas, P. Plonski, N. Karnad, V. Isler Maintaining Connectivity in Environments with Obstacles In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 42 | E. Meisner, S. Das, V. Isler, J. Trinkle, S. Sabanovic, L. Caporael Predictive State Representations for Grounding Human-Robot Communication In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2010. pdf,.bib |
| 2009 | |
| 41 | O. Tekdas, N. Karnad, V. Isler Efficient Strategies for Collecting Data from Wireless Sensor Network Nodes using Mobile Robots In 14th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2009. pdf,.bib |
| 40 | E. Meisner, S. Sabanovic, V. Isler, L. Caporael, J. Trinkle ShadowPlay: A Generative Model for Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction In 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2009. pdf,.bib |
| 39 | O. Tekdas, Y. Kumar, V. Isler, R. Janardan Building a Communication Bridge with Mobile Hubs In 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSORS), 2009. pdf,.bib |
| 38 | D. Bhadauria, V. Isler Data Gathering Tours for Mobile Robots In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009. pdf,.bib |
| 37 | N. Karnad, V. Isler Lion and Man Game in the Presence of a Circular Obstacle In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009. pdf,.bib |
| 2008 | |
| 36 | M. Pavone, N. Bisnik, E. Frazzoli, V. Isler A Stochastic and Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Customer Impatience ACM/Springer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 35 | E. Meisner, V. Isler, J. Trinkle Controller Design for Human-Robot Interaction Autonomous Robots, 24(2): 123--134, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 34 | V. Isler, M. Magdon-Ismail Sensor Selection Problem in Arbitrary Dimensions IEEE Tran. Automation Science and Engineering, 5(4): 651--660, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 33 | V. Isler, N. Karnad The Role of Information in the Cop-Robber Game Theoretical Computer Science, 3(399): 179--190, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 32 | O. Tekdas, J.H. Lim, A. Terzis, V. Isler Using Mobile Robots to Harvest Data from Sensor Fields IEEE Wireless Communications, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 31 | E. Meisner, W. Yang, V. Isler Network Formation through Coverage and Freeze-Tag In Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 30 | N. Karnad, V. Isler Bearing-Only Pursuit In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 29 | O. Tekdas, V. Isler Robotic Routers In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2008. pdf,.bib |
| 2007 | |
| 28 | N. Bisnik, A. Abouzeid, V. Isler Stochastic Event Capture Using Mobile Sensors Subject to a Quality Metric IEEE Tran. on Robotics, 23(4): 676 -- 692, 2007. pdf,.bib |
| 27 | M. Pavone, N. Bisnik, E. Frazzoli, V. Isler Decentralized Vehicle Routing in a Stochastic and Dynamic Environment with Customer Impatience In First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (RoboComm), 2007. pdf,.bib |
| 26 | O. Tekdas, V. Isler Sensor Placement Algorithms for Triangulation Based Localization In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2007. pdf,.bib |
| 25 | S. Kamath, E. Meisner, V. Isler Triangulation Based Multi Target Tracking with Mobile Sensor Networks In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2007. pdf,.bib |
| 2006 | |
| 24 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, S. Khanna Randomized Pursuit-Evasion with Local Visibility SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 1(20): 26--41, 2006. pdf,.bib |
| 23 | V. Isler, R. Bajcsy The Sensor Selection Problem for Bounded Uncertainty Sensing Models IEEE Tran. Automation Science and Engineering, 4(3): 372--381, 2006. pdf,.bib |
| 22 | V. Isler Placement and Distributed Deployment of Sensor Teams for Triangulation Based Localization In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2006. pdf,.bib |
| 21 | V. Isler, B. Wilson, R. Bajcsy Building a 3D Virtual Museum of Native American Baskets In Proc. Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2006. pdf,.bib |
| 20 | N. Bisnik, V. Isler, A. Abouzeid Stochastic Event Capture Using Mobile Sensors Subject to a Quality Metric In The Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), 2006. pdf,.bib |
| 2005 | |
| 19 | C. Belta, V. Isler, G. J. Pappas Discrete Abstractions for Robot Motion Planning and Control in Polygonal Environments IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 5(21): 864--875, 2005. pdf,.bib |
| 18 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, S. Khanna Randomized Pursuit-Evasion in a Polygonal Environment IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 5(21): 864--875, 2005. pdf,.bib |
| 17 | V. Isler, S. Khanna, J. Spletzer, C.J. Taylor Target Tracking with Distributed Sensors: The Focus of Attention Problem Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal(1-2): 225--247, 2005. pdf,.bib |
| 16 | V. Isler, R. Bajcsy The Sensor Selection Problem for Bounded Uncertainty Sensing Models In Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2005. pdf,.bib |
| 15 | V. Isler, D. Sun, S. Sastry Roadmap Based Pursuit-Evasion and Collision Avoidance In Robotics: Science and Systems, 2005. pdf,.bib |
| 2004 | |
| 14 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, K. Daniilidis, P.Valtr VC-Dimension of Exterior Visibility IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(5): 667--671, 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 13 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, S. Khanna Randomized Pursuit-Evasion with Limited Visibility In ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 12 | V. Isler, K. Daniilidis, G.J. Pappas, C. Belta Hybrid Control for Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion Games In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 11 | V. Isler, K. Daniilidis, S. Kannan Sampling Based Sensor-Network Deployment In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 10 | A. Efros, V. Isler, J. Shi, M. Visontai Seeing Through Water In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 9 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, S. Khanna Locating and Capturing an Evader in a Polygonal Environment In Sixth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 8 | V. Isler Algorithms for Distributed and Mobile Sensing PhD Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. pdf,.bib |
| 2003 | |
| 7 | V. Isler, J. Spletzer, S. Khanna, C.J. Taylor Target Tracking with Distributed Sensors: The Focus of Attention Problem In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003. pdf,.bib |
| 6 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, K. Daniilidis Local Exploration: Online Algorithms and A Probabilistic Framework In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2003. pdf, .bib |
| 2002 | |
| 5 | J. Mulligan, V. Isler, K. Daniilidis Trinocular Stereo: A New Algorithm and its Evaluation International Journal of Computer Vision, 47: 51-61, 2002. pdf,.bib |
| 4 | K. Daniilidis, C. Geyer, V. Isler, A. Makadia Omnidirectional Sensing for Robot Control In Control Problems in Robotics, 2002. pdf,.bib |
| 2001 | |
| 3 | J. Mulligan, V. Isler, K. Daniilidis Performance evaluation of stereo for tele-presence In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, 2001. pdf,.bib |
| 2 | V. Isler Theoretical Robot Exploration Technical Report, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. pdf,.bib |
| 1 | V. Isler, S. Kannan, K. Daniilidis VC-Dimension of Exterior Visibility of Polyhedra Technical Report, No. MS-CIS-01-34, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. pdf,.bib |
