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	I was a PhD student in the RPI Department of Computer Science from 2003 to 2009 as part of the CS Robotics and Robotic Sensor Networks groups. I successfully defended my dissertation in February of 2009. My research interests include human-robot interaction, mobile sensor networks, and learning for sequential decision and estimation problems.
Office:	MRC 331
Phone:	(518) 276-2135
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Note: As of May 1st 2009, I have moved to the Computational Interaction and Robotics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D. Thesis

Learning Controllers for Human-Robot Interaction

Publications

Journal

ShadowPlay: A Generative Model for Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction E. Meisner, Sabanovic, Isler, Caporael, Trinkle Transactions on Robotics and Automation Note: Submitted

Probabilistic network formation through coverage and freeze-tag. E. Meisner, W. Yang, and V. Isler. In Intelligent Service Robots. Note: Accepted, to appear.

Controller Design for Human-Robot Interaction. E. Meisner, V. Isler, J.C. Trinkle (2007). In Autonomous Robots: Special issue on Socially Assistive Robotics bibtex tech report

Conference and Workshop

Probabilistic network formation through coverage and freeze-tag. E. Meisner, W. Yang, and V. Isler. In WAFR 2008: The Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2008. bibtex

ShadowPlay: A Generative Model for Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction E. Meisner, Sabanovic, Isler, Caporael, Trinkle 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Note: Accepted, to appear Best Paper Award Finalist bibtex

"Outside-in" Design for Interdisciplinary HRI Research Sabanovic, E. Meisner, Caporael, Isler, Trinkle 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium on Experimental Design for Real-World Systems. Note: Accepted, to Appear bibtex

Triangulation Based Multi Target Tracking with Mobile Sensor Networks. S. Kamath, E. M. Meisner, and V. Isler. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2007. bibtex

Mabel: Building a Robot Designed for Human Interaction. Jonathan Schmid, Thomas Kollar, Eric Meisner, Victoria Sweetser, David Feil-Seifer, Chris Brown, Ben Atwood, Jenine Turner, Diana Calarese, Scott Cragg, Habib Chaudhary, Mike Isman AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2002: 24-31 bibtex

Mabel: Extending Human Interaction and Robot Rescue Designs. Thomas Kollar, Jonathan Schmid, Eric Meisner, Micha Elsner, Diana Calarese, Chikita Purav, Chris Brown, Jenine Turner, Dasun Peramunage, Gautam Altekar, Victoria Sweetser AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2003: 20-29 bibtex

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Current Projects

	In this project we are using information theoretic quantities to model coordination in human-robot interaction.
Rhythmic Interaction
	In this project we address the question of how mobile sensor nodes can form a connected network as quickly as possible.
Network Formation through Coverage

Past Projects

	This project studies the problem of designing robot controllers which minimize human stress
Controller design for HRI
	I spent the summer of 2005 working in the Engineering and systems division at SRI international. I worked on this project in the Telepresence Lab.
Traumapod
	This project investigates topological mapping of a polygonal environment by a mobile robot using a specific sensing model and a simple sensor feedback motions.
Mapping w/ gap sensing
	I worked on this project as an undergraduate, along with many other UofR students.
Mabel