Publications

Here are some of our recently published works from our laboratories:

2024

Atakuru, T., Kocabaş, F., Pagliarani, N., Cianchetti, M. & Samur, E. Fiber Jamming of Magnetorheological Elastomers as a Technique for the Stiffening of Soft Robots. Robotics, 13(1):16. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics13010016

Atakuru, T., Züngör, G. & Samur, E. Layer Jamming of Magnetorheological Elastomers for Variable Stiffness in Soft Robots. Exp Mech. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-024-01031-7

2023

Vatan, S. B., Bektaş, K., & Bozma, H. I. . Social APF-RL: Safe Mapless Navigation in Unknown & Human-Populated Environments - 11th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), IEEE xplore. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10256274, 2023.

Isik S, Unal G, Open-source software for automated rodent behavioral analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1149027, 2023.

Akmese C, Sevinc C, Halim S, Unal G Differential role of GABAergic and cholinergic ventral pallidal neurons in behavioral despair, conditioned fear memory and active coping. Prog Neuropscyhopharmacol Biol Psychiatry: 110760. DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2023.110760, 2023.

Kingir E, Sevinc C, Unal G, Chronic oral ketamine prevents anhedonia and alters neuronal activation in the lateral habenula and nucleus accumbens in rats under chronic unpredictable mild stress. Neuropharmacology, 228: 109468, 2023.

A. Ahmetoglu, E. Oztop, E. Ugur,  Özdikkat Bazlı Tahminciler ile Çoklu-Nesne Sembolleri Öğrenimi, 31. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU), 2023.

B. Celik, A. Ahmetoglu, E. Ugur, E. Oztop, Developmental Scaffolding with Large Language Models, 13th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2023.

B. Akbulut, T. Girgin, A. Mehrabi, M. Asada, E. Ugur, E. Oztop,  Bimanual rope manipulation skill synthesis through context dependent correction policy learning from human demonstration, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3904-3910, 2023.

I. Ayhan, A. Erken, E. Ugur, E. Oztop, Interactions of body representations in rubber hand illusion and tool-use paradigms, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society (VSS), 2023.

T. Taniguchi, S. Murata, M. Suzuki, D. Ognibene, P. Lanillos, E. Ugur, L. Jamone, T. Nakamura, A. Ciria, B. Lara, P. Giovanni, World Models and Predictive Coding for Cognitive and Developmental Robotics: Frontiers and Challenges, Advanced Robotics, 37(13), pp. 780-806, 2023.

Melisa I. Sener, Yukie Nagai, Erhan Oztop, Emre Ugur, Exploration with Intrinsic Motivation using Object-Action-Outcome Latent Space, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), 15(2), pp. 325-336, 2023.

C. Tutcu, S. K. Talas, O. Kocaturk, N. Tozun, E. Samur, Proof of Concept of a Novel Growing Soft Robot for Colonoscopy, Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2023, London, UK, pp. 103-104, 2023

G. B. Gonul, Y. Kerem Gunalp, M. A. Saygili and E. Samur, An Algorithm for Relative Navigation of Underwater Vehicles, OCEANS 2023 – Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 2023, pp. 1-6

Gaeta, L. T., McDonald, K. J., Kinnicutt, L., Le, M., Wilkinson-Flicker, S., Jiang, Y., Atakuru, T., Samur, E., & Ranzani, T. (2023). Magnetically induced stiffening for soft robotics, In Soft Matter (Vol. 19, Issue 14, pp. 2623–2636). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

U. Dinçer, G. Züngör, S.T. Aydemir, F.N.D. Çelik, E. Samur, Ç. Yılmaz, M. C. Akbostancı, Parkinson hastalığında bilek rijiditesinin doğal frekans yöntemi ile sayısal olarak değerlendirilmesi, 31. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU 2023), İstanbul, Türkiye, pp. 1-4, 2023

E. Karabıyık, S. Öncü, E. Samur, Investigation of an efficient model-based fuel economy optimization methodology for diesel engines focusing on real world driving emission cycles, International Journal of Engine Research, 2023

A. Demirtas, G. Erdemir, H. Bayram, Indoor surface classification for mobile robots, PeerJ Comput. Sci., 9:e1730, 2023.

E. Soyer, H. Bayram, N. Canıgeniş, O. Eren, Decision support system for selective withdrawal in water supply reservoirs: an approach based on thermal stratification, Water QualityResearch Journal, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 99-110, 2023.

M. K. Yılmaz, H. Bayram, Particle filter‐based aerial tracking for moving targets, Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 368-392, 2023.

H. Bayram, E. Ozdemir, H. Gokoglu, I. H. Savci, Clothoid-based Path Correction for AGV Navigation, The 28th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), pp. 605-609, 2023.

M. Bayrak, H. Bayram, COLREG-Compliant Simulation Environment for Verifying USV Motion Planning Algorithms, IEEE OCEANS 2023-Limerick, pp. 1-10, 2023.

E. Ozdemir, H. Gokoglu, M. K. Yilmaz, U. Dumandag, I. H. Savci, H. Bayram, High Fidelity IMU and Wheel Encoder Models for ROS Based AGV Simulations. Robot Operating System (ROS) The Complete Reference, vol. 7, pp. 227-240. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.

2022

Eker A.H., Öncü A. Bozma H.I. , Rendezvous Scheduling for Charging Coordination Between Aerial Robot - Mobile Ground Robot - 18th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9926705, 2022.

Guven EB, Pranic NM, Unal G, The differential effects of brief environmental enrichment following social isolation in rats. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci DOI: 10.3758/s13415-022-00989-y, 2022.

S.E. Ada, E. Ugur,  Meta-World Conditional Neural Processes, ICLR Workshop on Agent Learning in Open-Endedness, 2022.

N. Amirshirzad, E. Ugur, O. Bebek, E. Oztop,  Adaptive Shared Control with Human Intention Estimation for Human Agent Collaboration, IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2022.

A. Ahmetoglu, E. Ugur, M. Asada, E. Oztop, High-level Features for Resource Economy and Fast Learning in SkillTransfer, Advanced Robotics, 36(5-6), pp. 291-303, 2022.

S.E. Ada, E. Ugur, H.L. Akin,  Generalization in transfer learning: robust control of robot locomotion, Robotica, 40(11), pp. 3811–3836, 2022.

M.Y. Seker, A. Ahmetoglu, Y. Nagai, M. Asada, E. Oztop, E. Ugur,  Imitation and Mirror Systems in Robots through Deep Modality Blending Networks, Neural Networks, 146, pp. 22-35, 2022.

A. Ahmetoglu, M.Y. Seker, J. Piater, E. Oztop, E. Ugur, DeepSym: Deep Symbol Generation and Rule Learning from Unsupervised Continuous Robot Interaction for Planning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 75, pp. 709-745, 2022.

Y. Yildirim, E. Ugur, Learning Social Navigation from Demonstrations with Conditional Neural Processes, Interaction Studies, 23(3), pp. 427-468, 2022.

S. Demirtas, T. Cankurt, and E. Samur, An adjustable robotic tool for nut running operations, Procedia CIRP, 2022

O. Kayhan, E. Samur, A Wearable Haptic Guidance System Based on Skin Stretch around the Waist for Visually-Impaired Runners, 2022 IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), Santa Barbara, 2022

S. Demirtas, T. Cankurt, and E. Samur, Development and Implementation of a Collaborative Workspace for Industrial Robots Utilizing a Practical Path Adaptation Algorithm and Augmented Reality, Mechatronics, 2022.

E. Soyer, H. Bayram, N. Canıgeniş, O. Eren, Decision support system for selective withdrawal in water supply reservoirs: an approach based on thermal stratification, IWA 4th Regional Conference on Diffuse Pollution & Eutrophication, pp. 260-265, Istanbul, 2022.