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	Emre Ugur
	PhD. Student Department of Computer Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, TURKEY

Projects Probabillistic Behavior-Based Hand-Crafted Controller CENG 715 : Evolutionary Computation Context-based Reactive Controller with Evolved Probabilities CENG 710 : Introduction to Autonomous Robotics Design of Reactive Behaviors for Unknown Environments using Potential Fields Methodology Design a Hybrid Control Architecture for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation EE 553 : Optimization Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and PSO with Cross-over CENG 566 : Image Processing A Learning Based Method for Super-Resolution of Low Resolution Images CENG 583 : Computational Vision Shape From Shading: Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization CENG 569 : Neurocomputing A Review of Standard Back-Propagation Algorithm Understanding Dynamics of Kohonen's Self-Organizing Feature Maps Feed-Forward Competitive Shunting Nets: Visualization of Analytical Results CENG 490 : Senior Project Evolution of probabilistic control in a swarm of robots CENG 462 : Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Learning Blackjack using Reinforcement Learning
	Literature Survey and Some Dirty Notes Cognitive Robotics Affordances Neural Networks Modular Neural Networks Robotics Control Architectures Swarm-Robotics Book: Introduction to AI Robotics Book: Evolutionary Robotics Book: Behavior-Based Robotics Vision Swarm-Intelligence Book Review: Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
	Some Tips On Plotting with R Package (raw) Latex/vim Linux
	Links Kovan research lab MACS project

Publications:
Journal:

Erol Sahin, Sertan Girgin, and Emre Ugur, Area measurement of large closed regions with a mobile robot, Autonomous Robots. Vol: 21, No: 3, November 2006, pp. 255-266.
Erol Sahin, Maya Cakmak, Mehmet R. Dogar, Emre Ugur, and Gokturk Ucoluk, To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances towards affordance-based robot control. Adaptive Behavior (2007). web page

Conference:

Mehmet R. Dogar, Maya Cakmak, Emre Ugur, and Erol Sahin Using Learned Affordances for Robotic Behavior Development. Accepted to IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 08).
Maya Cakmak, Mehmet R. Dogar, Emre Ugur, and Erol Sahin Affordances as a Framework for Robot Control. Proc. of International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 07) , Piscataway, NJ, USA, November 5-7, 2007.
Emre Ugur, Ali E. Turgut, and Erol Sahin, Dispersion of a swarm of robots based on realistic wireless intensity signals. 22nd Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'07) , Ankara, Turkey, November 7-9, 2007.
Emre Ugur, Mehmet R. Dogar, Maya Cakmak, and Erol Sahin, Curiosity-driven Learning of Traversability Affordance on a Mobile Robot, In Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL 07), pp. 13-18, London, UK., July 11-13 2007. Paper.
Emre Ugur, Mehmet R. Dogar, Maya Cakmak, and Erol Sahin, The learning and use of traversability affordance using range images on a mobile robot, In Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 07), pp. 1721-1726, Rome, Italy, April 10-14, 2007. Paper, web page, early version.

Thesis:

Emre Ugur, Direct Perception of Traversability Affordance on Range Images Through Learning on a Mobile Robot, Msc. Thesis. Middle East Technical University, 2006. pdf.

Book Chapters:

Rome, E.; Paletta, L.; Sahin, E.; Dorffner, G.; Hertzberg, J.; Fritz, G.; Irran, J.; Kintzler, F.; Lörken, C.; May, S.; Ugur, E.; Breithaupt, R. The MACS project: An approach to affordance-based robot control. In: Towards Affordance-based Robot Control, Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06231, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, LNAI 4760, pp. 173-210, Rome, E., Hertzberg, J. and Dorffner, G. (eds.), February 2008

Technical Report:

Erol Sahin, Maya Cakmak, Mehmet R. Dogar, Emre Ugur, and Gokturk Ucoluk. "To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances towards affordance-based robot control", KOVAN Research Lab., 2006, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara TURKEY
Erol Sahin, Emre Ugur and Maya Cakmak. Evaluation of existing control architectures for using affordances MACS Technical Report MACS/2/2.1, KOVAN Research Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2006.
Erich Rome, Erol Sahin, Ralph Breithaupt, Jorg Irran, Florian Kintzler, Lucas Paletta, Maya Cakmak, Emre Ugur, Gokturk Ucoluk, Mehmet Remzi Dogar, Piotr Rudol, Gerald Fritz, Georg Dorffner, Patrick Doherty, Mariusz Wzorek, Hartmut Surmann, Christopher Lorken. Development of an Affordance-based Control Architecture. MACS Technical Report MACS/2/2.2, Fraunhofer AIS, Sankt Augustin, 2006.
Emre Ugur, Mehmet Remzi Dogar, Onur Soysal, Maya Cakmak and Erol Sahin. MACSim: Physics-based Simulation of the KURT3D Robot Platform for Studying Affordances. MACS Technical Report MACS/1/2.1, KOVAN Research Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2006.
Emre Ugur, Mehmet Remzi Dogar, Onur Soysal, Maya Cakmak, Ralph Breithaupt and Erol Sahin. Modeling of the final demonstrator scenario in a physics-based simulator. MACS Technical Report MACS/6/6.2, KOVAN Research Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2006.