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EPFL ENAC IIE DISAL
GR A2 465 (Batiment GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 693 57 38
[email protected]
Short biography
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at DISAL. I have recently finished my PhD in the EPFL-IST joint doctoral program, where I have developed a robust model predictive formation control approach for rotary-wing Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). I was co-advised by Prof. Rodrigo Ventura from IST (Portugal). I received my MSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a control systems option from Middle East Technical University (METU). My master thesis was related to the control and system identification of autonomous sea-surface vehicles. I obtained my BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from METU. I also hold a minor degree in Mechatronics from the same university. Further information can be found here:
Research interests and projects
My research interests include aerial robotics, multi-robot systems, autonomy, optimal control and estimation strategies, and localization systems. I aim to deploy rotary-wing MAVs in real-world environments with a prescribed formation geometry so that they can perform high-level tasks optimally, robustly, and with high performance. I pay special attention to leveraging onboard resources for perception and computation. For additional information, please check here.
Teaching and service activities
I participate in teaching activities for Distributed Intelligent Systems (DIS) and Signals, Instruments, and Systems (SIS) courses given at DISAL. I also supervise many master students for their semester and master’s projects.
Publications
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A Distributed Architecture for Onboard Tightly-Coupled Estimation and Predictive Control of Micro Aerial Vehicle Formations
2022-11-29. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Montbeliard, France, November 28-30, 2022. p. 156–172. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-51497-5_12.Please note that the publication lists from Infoscience integrated into the EPFL website, lab or people pages are frozen following the launch of the new version of platform. The owners of these pages are invited to recreate their publication list from Infoscience. For any assistance, please consult the Infoscience help or contact support.
Linear and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategies for Trajectory Tracking Micro Aerial Vehicles: A Comparative Study
2022. THE 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 12106-12113. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981880.Please note that the publication lists from Infoscience integrated into the EPFL website, lab or people pages are frozen following the launch of the new version of platform. The owners of these pages are invited to recreate their publication list from Infoscience. For any assistance, please consult the Infoscience help or contact support.
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Formations of Multi-Rotor Micro Aerial Vehicles: An Experimental Approach
2021-03-28. 17th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2020), Floriana, Malta, November 15-18, 2021. p. 449-461. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-71151-1_40.Please note that the publication lists from Infoscience integrated into the EPFL website, lab or people pages are frozen following the launch of the new version of platform. The owners of these pages are invited to recreate their publication list from Infoscience. For any assistance, please consult the Infoscience help or contact support.
Decentralized Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for 3D Formation of Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles with Relative Sensing and Estimation
2019-11-14. 2019 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), New Brunswick, NJ, USA, August 22-23, 2019. p. 176-178. DOI : 10.1109/MRS.2019.8901098.Please note that the publication lists from Infoscience integrated into the EPFL website, lab or people pages are frozen following the launch of the new version of platform. The owners of these pages are invited to recreate their publication list from Infoscience. For any assistance, please consult the Infoscience help or contact support.
An approach for system identification in unmanned surface vehicles
2017-12-14. 17. International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2017)), Jeju, South Korea, 18-21 October 2017. DOI : 10.23919/ICCAS.2017.8204440.Please note that the publication lists from Infoscience integrated into the EPFL website, lab or people pages are frozen following the launch of the new version of platform. The owners of these pages are invited to recreate their publication list from Infoscience. For any assistance, please consult the Infoscience help or contact support.