About

Eric Price is a robotics and computer vision researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, aerial autonomy, and human and animal motion analysis. He is perhaps best known for developing SCRAM (Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-Makespan), an influential algorithm for efficiently assigning interchangeable robots to spatial tasks while avoiding collisions — a contribution that has garnered nearly 60 citations across its conference and journal versions and remains a foundational reference in multi-robot task allocation. Price has also made significant strides in aerial robotics, particularly with autonomous airships: his work on deep residual reinforcement learning for blimp control and physics-grounded simulation of deformable airships in turbulent wind addresses a largely underexplored vehicle class, filling critical gaps in UAV research. His AirPose system, with 35 citations, demonstrates sophisticated multi-UAV fusion for markerless 3D human pose estimation in unstructured outdoor environments — pushing the frontier of real-world motion capture beyond laboratory constraints. More recently, Price has extended his vision-based methods to animal behaviour inference, offering scalable tools for ecological research. Across these domains, his research consistently emphasizes practical autonomy, scalability, and deployment in challenging real-world conditions.

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H-Index
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136
Total Citations
15
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
SCRAM: Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-Makespan for Formational Positioning
46 citations · 2015
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2022 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 12
🏛 Institutions: The University of Texas at Austin, University of Stuttgart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Institute of Flight

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