Ibrahim Volkan Isler
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota

• UMN Center for Applied Phenomics
• Fellow of the Informatics Institute
• 2010-12 McKnight Land-Grant Professor
• Resident Fellow at IonE
• Other affiliations: DTC, Precision Agriculture Center
• Office: Keller 4-213
  Walking directions from the East Bank Light Rail Stop
• Phone: +1-612-625-1067
• Fax: +1-612-625-0572
• Email:
• Mailing address
• Bio: Brief bio, CSE profile, C.V.
• CSCI 2011H: Honors Discrete Math (Spring 2017) [Course Information]
• CSCI 5561: Computer VIsion (Spring 2017) [Course Information]
• Office hour: Friday 10am or by appointment (teaching related? Also check the class pages please)
• Publications, RSN Lab
• Prospective students:
  • Please read this before contacting me
  • Curious about life in the Twin-Cities? Follow these links on our lab wiki, or check out this page

Research

• My group and the Robotic Sensor Networks Lab
• Here are some slides and videos for a quick summary of our recent work on:
  • Robotic Environmental Monitoring [Project Page]
  • Robotic Data Mules [Project Page]
  • Agricultural Robotics where you can find updates on our recent work. Here is a video on our yield mapping results.

Selected Recent Publications

More at: [complete list of publications][Google Scholar Profile]

• A Pursuit-Evasion Toolkit (RAM 2016)
• Environment and Solar Map Construction for Solar-Powered Mobile Systems (TRO'16)
• Constrained Probabilistic Search for a One-Dimensional Random Walker (TRO'16)
• Large Scale Image Mosaic Construction for Agricultural Applications (RAL'16)
  [Project Page]
  
• Gathering Bearing Data for Target Localization (RAL'16)
  
• Capturing an Omnidirectional Evader in Convex Environments using a Differential Drive Robot (RAL'16)
  
• Algorithms for Cooperative Active Localization of Static Targets With Mobile Bearing Sensors Under Communication Constraints (TRO'15)
  
• Lion and Man with Visibility in Monotone Polygons (IJRR'14)
• Symmetric Rendezvous Search on the Line with an Unknown Initial Distance (TRO'13)
• Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Solar-Powered Mobile Robots(JFR'13)
• Efficient Data Collection from Wireless Nodes under the Two-Ring Communication Model (IJRR'12)
• Building a Communication Bridge With Mobile Hubs (T-ASE'12)
• Robotic Data Mules for Collecting Data over Sparse Sensor Fields (JFR'11)
• Search and Pursuit-evasion in Mobile Robotics (AURO'11)
• Capturing an Evader in a Polygonal Environment with Obstacles (IJCAI'11)
• Energy-Optimal Velocity Profiles for Car-Like Robots (ICRA'11)
• A Robotic System for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes (JFR'11)
• Robotic Routers: Algorithms and Implementation (IJRR'10)

Recent Activities

• Some of our recent work on agricultural robotics, and some relevant press coverage:
  [Momentum] [CS Dept news release] [MN Daily article] [UMN News] [CSE News]
• ICRA 2015 Workshop on Active Perception. Special issue coming soon
• WAFR 2014 took place in Istanbul (in the same building where, twenty years ago, I registered for my first class as an engineering student.)
• RSN Lab featured on 5 eyewitness news
• Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring at:
  [RSS 2013] [IROS 2012] [RSS 2012] [IROS 2011]
• Workshop on Many-Robot Systems at: [ICRA 2013 ] [ICRA 2012 ]
• ICRA 2012 was held here in the Twin-Cities
• Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Search and Pursuit/Evasion with Mobile Robots is in press
• IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Networked Robots chair (2009 - 2015)
• Associate Editor for:
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2010-2014)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2009 - 2014)
  • Robotics & Automation Society Conference Editorial Board (2006 - )

Teaching

• CSCI 8980: Geometric Optimization in Robotics -- Fall 2016 [Info] [Course Dir]
• CSCI 8980: Geometric Optimization in Robotics (Fall 2016)
• CSci 5561: Computer Vision (Spring 2015)
• CSci 2011: Discrete Structures of Computer Science (Fall 2014)
• CSci 5561: Computer Vision (Spring 2014)
• CSci 8980: Seminar in Robotics: Networked and Cloud Robotics (Spring 2013)
• CSci 5551: Intro. to Intelligent Robotic Systems (Fall 2012)
• CSci 5561: Computer Vision (Spring 2011)
• CSci 2011: Discrete Structures of Computer Science (Spring 2010)
• CSci 5551: Intro. to Intelligent Robotic Systems (Fall 2009)
• CSci 2011: Discrete Structures of Computer Science (Spring 2009)
• CSci 5980: Robotic Sensor Networks (Fall 2008)

Miscellaneous

• Prospective students:
  • Please read this before contacting me
  • Curious about life in the Twin-Cities? Follow these links on our lab wiki, or check out this page
• Older News:
  • A list of workshops I helped organize is available here
  • ICRA 2011 Workshop on Educating Robotics Engineers and Scientists
  • WAFR 2010 was in Singapore Dec 13-15
  • RSN Lab will have a strong presence in ICRA'10. In addition to presenting four research papers, we are co-organizing two workshops:
    • Search and Pursuit-Evasion
    • Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy
  • Workshop on Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks