Volkan Isler
Professor
Designs planning algorithms and perceptual representations for robots in environmental monitoring, agricultural automation and home automation.
Volkan Isler's lab at UT Austin works on planning, control & multi-robot systems. 30 papers since 2023, 27 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 7 PhD students and 2 master's students. 31 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 90%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 31
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 5
- 8 papers2024 · T1 7
- 13 papers2023 · T1 12
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ICC, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems13 papers
- automation0 papers
- agricultural0 papers
- environmental monitoring0 papers
- home0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20263 papers
- ICRA (T1)C-Free-Uniform: A Map-Conditioned Trajectory Sampler for Model Predictive Path Integral Control (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)SV-GS: Sparse View 4D Reconstruction with Skeleton-Driven Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Uncertainty Guided Exploratory Trajectory Optimization for Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- IROS (T1)An Unsupervised C-Uniform Trajectory Sampler with Applications to Model Predictive Path Integral Control (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)C-Uniform Trajectory Sampling for Fast Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- WACVFineControlNet: Fine-level Text Control for Image Generation with Spatially Aligned Text Control Injection (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Neural $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ Adaptive Control of Vehicle Lateral Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Pursuit-Evasion for Car-like Robots with Sensor Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)VisDiff: SDF-Guided Polygon Generation for Visibility Reconstruction, Characterization and Recognition (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- ICRA (T1)GG-LLM: Geometrically Grounding Large Language Models for Zero-shot Human Activity Forecasting in Human-Aware Task Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)HandNeRF: Learning to Reconstruct Hand-Object Interaction Scene from a Single RGB Image (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)HIO-SDF: Hierarchical Incremental Online Signed Distance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- ICCLow-cost Refrigerator Frost Detection using Piezoelectric Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Map-Aware Human Pose Prediction for Robot Follow-Ahead (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)RIC: Rotate-Inpaint-Complete for Generalizable Scene Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)VFAS-Grasp: Closed Loop Grasping with Visual Feedback and Adaptive Sampling (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)VioLA: Aligning Videos to 2D LiDAR Scans (opens in a new tab)
202313 papers
- IROS (T1)AcouSkin: Full Surface Contact localization Using Acoustic Waves (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Active Planar Mass Distribution Estimation with Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)AmbiSense: Acoustic Field Based Blindspot-Free Proximity Detection and Bearing Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Category-Level Global Camera Pose Estimation with Multi-Hypothesis Point Cloud Correspondences (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsEvaluation of Stem Rust Disease in Wheat Fields by Drone Hyperspectral Imaging (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Neural Optimal Control using Learned System Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Pick2Place: Task-aware 6DoF Grasp Estimation via Object-Centric Perspective Affordance (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)RAMP: Hierarchical Reactive Motion Planning for Manipulation Tasks Using Implicit Signed Distance Functions (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Real-Time Simultaneous Multi-Object 3D Shape Reconstruction, 6DoF Pose Estimation and Dense Grasp Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Semantic Mapping with Confidence Scores through Metric Embeddings and Gaussian Process Classification (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SonicFinger: Pre-touch and Contact Detection Tactile Sensor for Reactive Pregrasping (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Stochastic Traveling Salesperson Problem with Neighborhoods for Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went31 listed
Apply to UT AustinFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
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