Projects

Current Projects (PI)

1) “Adaptive Swarm Control,” Research Project, supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), 01/03/2010 – 15/05/2014, Principal Investigator. (This project was temporarily frozen between September 2010 and October 2011.)

Past Projects (PI)

1) “GUARDIANS: Group of Unmanned Assistant Robots Deployed In Aggregative Navigation supported by Scent detection,” Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP), supported by European Commission – 6’th Framework Programme Objective 2 “Information and Communication Technologies,” 01/12/2006 – 31/01/2010, Project Partner, Principal Investigator of the TOBB ETU part.

2) “Particle Swarm Optimization: Parallel and Asynchronous Implementation, Rigorous Convergence Analysis, and Implementation on a Multi-Robot System,” CAREER Research Project, supported by TÜBİTAK, 01/02/2007 – 01/02/2010, Principal Investigator.

3) “Robot Swarms: Coordination and Formation Control of Groups,” Research Project, supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), 01/08/2005 – 31/07/2008, Principal Investigator.

Past Projects that Worked on

1) “Real-Time Control Systems Software Library – Documentation, Implementation, Graduate level Laboratory Course Development, and Control and Optimization Routines Development,” supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of USA, May 1997 – December 2000.

2) “Distributed Coordination and Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles,” supported by the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) and Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, January 2001 – September 2001.

3) “Strategies for Human-Automaton Resource Entity Deployment (SHARED),” supported by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-teams (MICA) program, October 2001 – August 2002.