Biography
Dr. Özaslan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, TURKEY.
Dr. Özaslan received dual B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2008. Dr. Özaslan is first in METU history to receive a dual degree in these two departments. He then moved to Bilkent University for graduate studies. He
obtained a M.Sc. degree in computer science in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Uluç Saranlı. He received his Ph.D. degree at University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Laboratories under the the supervision of Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. Camillo J. Taylor. In his thesis Dr. Özaslan focuses on state estimation, mapping and autonomous navigation of micro unmanned aerial vehicles. Upon completion of his Ph.D. degree, he worked at Motional, Boston as a research scientist for 2 years on high definition map building for autonomous driving vehicles.
Education Information
2012 - 2018
2012 - 2018Doctorate
University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics , United States Of America
2008 - 2011
2008 - 2011Postgraduate
Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University, Faculty Of Engıneerıng, Department Of Computer Engıneerıng, Turkey
2004 - 2008
2004 - 2008Undergraduate Double Major
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Computer Engineering, Turkey
2003 - 2008
2003 - 2008Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty Of Engineering, Department Of Mechanical Engineering, Turkey
Dissertations
2020
2020Doctorate
Estimation, Mapping and Navigation with Micro Aerial Vehicles for Infrastructure Inspection
University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Foreign Languages
C2 Mastery
C2 MasteryEnglish
Research Areas
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Robotics, Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
Academic Titles / Tasks
2021 - Continues
2021 - ContinuesAssistant Professor
Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Mühendislik Ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi, Makine Mühendisliği
Non Academic Experience
2018 - 2020
2018 - 2020Research Scientist
Company, Motional, High Definition Mapping
Articles Published in Journals That Entered SCI, SSCI and AHCI Indexes
2019
2019MAVNet: An effective semantic segmentation micro-network for MAV-based tasks
Nguyen T., Shivakumar S. S. , Miller I. D. , Keller J., Lee E. S. , Zhou A., et al.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol.4, no.4, pp.3908-3915, 2019 (Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded)
2018
2018Spatio-Temporally Smooth Local Mapping and State Estimation Inside Generalized Cylinders with Micro Aerial Vehicles
Ozaslan T. , Loianno G., Keller J., Taylor C. J. , Kumar V.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol.3, no.4, pp.4209-4216, 2018 (Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded)
2018
2018The Multivehicle Stereo Event Camera Dataset: An Event Camera Dataset for 3D Perception
Zhu A. Z. , Thakur D., Özaslan T. , Pfrommer B., Kumar V., Daniilidis K.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol.3, no.3, pp.2032-2039, 2018 (Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded)
2017
2017Autonomous navigation and mapping for inspection of penstocks and tunnels with MAVs
Özaslan T. , Loianno G., Keller J., Taylor C. J. , Kumar V., Wozencraft J. M. , et al.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol.2, no.3, pp.1740-1747, 2017 (Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded)
Refereed Congress / Symposium Publications in Proceedings
2016
2016Towards fully autonomous visual inspection of dark featureless dam penstocks using MAVs
Özaslan T. , Mohta K., Keller J., Mulgaonkar Y., Taylor C. J. , Kumar V., et al.
2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016, Daejeon, South Korea, 9 - 14 October 2016, pp.4998-5005
2013
2013Inspection of penstocks and featureless tunnel-like environments using micro UAVs
Özaslan T. , Shen S., Mulgaonkar Y., Michael N., Kumar V.
9th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2013, Brisbane, Australia, 9 - 11 December 2013, vol.105, pp.123-136
Scientific Refereeing
April 2021
April 2021TUBITAK Project
1507 - TÜBİTAK SME R&D Start Support Program, ENKO TEKNİK ELEKTRİK MAKİNE VE KONTROL SİSTEMLERİ SANAYİ VE TİCARET LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ, Turkey
April 2021
April 2021TUBITAK Project
1507 - TÜBİTAK SME R&D Start Support Program, NEVAS PROJE MÜHENDİSLİK MÜŞAVİRLİK İNŞAAT TAAHHÜT SANAYİ VE TİCARET LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ, Turkey
April 2021
April 2021TUBITAK Project
1501 - Industry R & D Projects Support Program, DESİRD TASARIM ARGE ANONİM ŞİRKETİ, Turkey
December 2020
December 2020IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Conference Paper (Full Text)
November 2020
November 2020