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2025

• 14 July 2025: We have a new paper accepted to IEEE Access.

  • M. R. Kaplan, B. Kürkçü, M. Ö. Efe and Z. Y. Bayraktaroğlu, "Comparative Study of Disturbance Observer-Based Control Methods on an Industrial Gimbal System," IEEE Access. Link to the paper.

• 31 March 2025: We have a new paper accepted to IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

  • W. Yang, B. Kürkçü, and M. Tomizuka, "Underactuated Control of Multiple Soft Pneumatic Actuators via Stable Inversion," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. Link to the paper.

• 21 Jan 2025: Happy to share you that I have been elected as the Vice-Chair for the IEEE SCV/SF Joint Section Control System Chapter (CSS/SMC)!

2024

• 01 Sep 2024: Thrilled to inform you that I have joined the ECE Department at Santa Clara University as an Assistant Professor.

• 01 May 2024: We have 2 journal papers and 1 conference paper from our group accepted.

  • Yang, W., Kurkcu, B., Tomizuka, M., "Approximated Modeling and Optimal Design for a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Considering the Force/Torque and System Controllability" ASME JMD, 2024. Link to the paper.
  • Efe, M. O., Kurkcu, B., Kasnakoglu, C., Zaharuddin, M., Zhijie, L.,"Masked Multiple State Space Model Identifcation Using FRD and Evolutionary Optimization" IEEE Trans. on Ind. Informatics, 2024. Link to the paper.
  • Yang, W., Stuart, H., Kurkcu, B., and Tomizuka, M. “Nonlinear Parameter-Varying Modeling for Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Data-Driven Parameter Estimation ” IEEE/ASME AIM, 2024

• 10 Mar 2024: We have a new paper from our group accepted to IEEE/IFAC 8th International Conference on Control Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD'24)

  • Gün, M., Kürkçü, B., and Kaya, A., "Extending Virtual Force Field for Obstacle Avoidance via Polynomial Extrapolation"

• 14 Feb 2024:I gave a talk on robust control for soft robots at the University of Sheffield - ASCE's Research Seminar.

• 11 Feb 2024: We have a new paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

  • M. Ö. Efe, B. Kürkçü, C. Kasnakoǧlu, Z. Mohamed and Z. Liu, "Switched Neural Networks for Simultaneous Learning of Multiple Functions" in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligencelink to the paper

• 10 Feb 2024:I gave a talk on Robust Robotics at the Colorado School of Mines Space Resources Program.

2023

• 29 Nov 2023: We have a new paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II

  • M. Ö. Efe, B. Kürkçü, C. Kasnakoǧlu, Z. Mohamed and Z. Liu, "A Modified Levenberg Marquardt Algorithm for Simultaneous Learning of Multiple Datasets," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3335140. Link to the paper

• 10 Oct 2023: We have 2 papers from our group at UC Berkeley accepted to IEEE ROBIO.

  • Yang, W.T., Kürkçü, B., Hirao, M., Sun, L., Zhu, X., Zhang, Z., Gu, G., X., Tomizuka, M., "Control of Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Approximated Dynamical Modeling". Link to the paper.
  • Hirao, M., Kürkçü, B., Ghanbarpour, A., Tomizuka, M., "Frequency Domain Analysis of Nonlinear Series Elastic Actuator via Describing Function". Link to the paper.

• 5 Sep 2023: We have a new paper from our group accepted to 13th EASN International Conference.

  • Demirli. A, and Koç. İ., M., Kürkçü. B., "L1 adaptive controller design for a tail fin controlled fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle" linkto the paper

• 23 Aug 2023:Glad to inform you that I have joined the editorial board of Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a new Guest Editor. Look forward to see your outstanding manuscripts.

• 15 May 2023: We have a new paper from our group accepted to IEEE CCTA.

  • Özçelik. M, Kürkçü. B, and Bayraktaroğlu. Z., Y., "Experimental Comparison of H-Infinity Synthesis and Feedback Linearization on a MIMO Gimbal Example" link to the paper

• 14 Feb 2023:Glad to inform you that I have joined the editorial board of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (TIMC) (SCI-Q3) as a new Associate Editor. Look forward to see your outstanding manuscripts.

• 23 Jan 2023:Glad to inform you that I have joined the editorial board of Measurement and Control (SCI-Q3) as a new Associate Editor. Look forward to see your outstanding manuscripts.

• 15 Jan 2023:I joined the Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka's Systems Control Group at UC Berkeley as a Research Scholar.

• 09 Jan 2023: Happy to share that our paper "Modelling and Simulation of 2 DOF Gimbal System with Experimental System Identification" is publised on the IEEE 10th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC). Link to the paper.

2022

• 13 Oct 2022: Happy to share that our paper "A New Adaptive Disturbance/Uncertainty Estimator Based Control Scheme For LTI Systems" is publised in IEEE Access (SCI-Q1- IF:3.476) . Link to the paper.

• 15 Sep 2022:We have a paper from our group accepted to TOK 2022, Elazığ.

  • Kaplan, M., R., Kurkcu, B., ve Bayraktaroglu, Z, Y. "Bozucu Gözleyici Yaklaşımların İncelenmesi: Bir Gimbal Örneği"" TOK Automatic Control National Committee Meeting, Elazıg,Turkey, 2022 Link to the paper.

• 17 Aug 2022: I will be teaching BBM 231 - Logic Design and BBM 341 - Systems Programming

• 08 Aug 2022: Welcome Mehmet Kerem!

• 06 May 2022: We have 2 papers from our group accepted to IEEE ICMIMT.

  • Albayrak. M, Kürkçü. B, and Ayasun. S, "Switching Based MIMO Robust Autopilot Design: A Munition Example"
  • Eser. A. Ö, Kürkçü. B, and Ayasun. S, "Adaptive Notch Filter Design for Flexible Modes of Guided Munitions"

• 04 May 2022: Happy to share that our paper "On the existence of Equivalent-Input-Disturbance and multiple integral augmentation via H-Infinity Synthesis for unmatched systems" was accepted to ISA Transactions (SCI-Q1- IF:5.468) . Link to the paper. Joint work with Cosku Kasnakoglu from ETU, Mehmet Önder Efe from Hacettepe and Rong Su from NTU Singapore.

• 01 Feb 2022: I will be teaching BBM 407 - Fuzzy Logic and CMP 756 - Swarm Systems

2021

• 12 Nov 2021: Happy to share that I am now the Principal Investigator of the newly signed project entitled "Design of a robust motion control system for the satellite antenna system." with a Defense Industry Company.

• 05 Aug 2021: I will be teaching BBM 205 - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics and BBM 231 - Logic Design this semester

• 07 June 2021: Happy to share that I am now the Principal Investigator of the newly signed project entitled "Switched Robust Control based Autopilot Design for the underactuated systems" with a Defense Industry Company.

• 22 March 2021: Started at Hacettepe University!