Papers
38
Total Citations
512
H-Index
13
About
Eric Martinson is a robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, robot audition, and human-robot interaction. His early contributions focused on applying reinforcement learning — particularly Q-learning — to complex robotic systems, developing scalable approaches that grouped behaviors into "roles" to manage state-space complexity in mission-tasked robot teams, work that garnered over 40 citations. Martinson made significant strides in robot audition, introducing Auditory Evidence Grids to address the persistent challenges of sound source localization in noisy real-world environments (38 citations), and developing autonomous systems capable of discovering and mapping ambient sound sources. His research consistently bridged sensing modalities: a notable 2007 paper demonstrated how vision, acoustics, and natural language could be combined to resolve ambiguities in human-robot communication (36 citations). Martinson also contributed to multi-robot localization through Intrinsic Localization and Mapping, using robots themselves as landmarks. Later work explored person identification using soft biometrics for sustained social interaction. Across more than a decade of research, his publications have collectively accumulated hundreds of citations, reflecting sustained influence in autonomous robotics, spatial awareness, and intelligent human-robot interfaces.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Learning to role-switch in multi-robot systems41 citations · 2004
- 2Auditory Evidence Grids38 citations · 2006
- 3Using vision, acoustics, and natural language for disambiguation36 citations · 2007
- 4Robot behavioral selection using q-learning34 citations · 2005
- 5Improving human-robot interaction through adaptation to the auditory scene30 citations · 2007
- 6Robotic Discovery of the Auditory Scene28 citations · 2007
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- 8Lattice Formation in Mobile Autonomous Sensor Arrays27 citations · 2005
- 9Discovery of sound sources by an autonomous mobile robot26 citations · 2009
- 10Identifying people with soft-biometrics at Fleet Week25 citations · 2013