Ayse Kucukyilmaz

Contact

• workRoom B31 Computer Science
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• workn/a
• Ayse.Kucukyilmaz@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszak1

Biography

Ayse Kucukyilmaz is an assistant professor in Computer Science at University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include haptics, physical HRI, assistive robotics, and machine learning. Previously, she was a senior lecturer and a member of the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) at the School of Computer Science in University of Lincoln, UK. Between 2015 and 2017, she worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Yeditepe University. Prior to that, Ayse worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Personal Robotics Laboratory of Imperial College London. She was a visiting researcher at the Information-Oriented Control group in Technical University of Munich in 2011. Ayse received her Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Engineering from Koc University, Turkey in 2013, and obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. She was the recipient of the Academic Excellence Award at her graduation from Koc University in 2013 and the 2016 Meritorious Service Award for her work as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Haptics. She has received individual fellowships from Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and TUBITAK.

Expertise Summary

My research focus is in haptic shared control for physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). My aim is to build adjustable autonomy paradigms to enable dynamic switching behaviours between different levels of robotic autonomy (e.g. full human control vs. full autonomy) during shared control of a physical task.

Recent Publications

• A. KUCUKYILMAZ and I. ISSAK, 2020. Online Identification of Interaction Behaviors From Haptic Data During Collaborative Object Transfer IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(1), 96-102
• SINGH J, SRINIVASAN AR, NEUMANN G and KUCUKYILMAZ A, 2020. Haptic-Guided Teleoperation of a 7-DoF Collaborative Robot Arm with an Identical Twin Master. IEEE transactions on haptics. (In Press.)
• SARI, SERCAN and KUCUKYILMAZ, AYSE, 2019. VR-Fit: Walking-in-Place Locomotion with Real Time Step Detection for VR-Enabled Exercise In: Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. 255-266
• B. UGURLU, M. ACER, D. E. BARKANA, I. GOCEK, A. KUCUKYILMAZ, Y. Z. ARSLAN, H. BASTURK, E. SAMUR, E. UGUR, R. UNAL and O. BEBEK, 2019. A Soft+Rigid Hybrid Exoskeleton Concept in Scissors-Pendulum Mode: A Suit for Human State Sensing and an Exoskeleton for Assistance In: 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). 518-523

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• A. KUCUKYILMAZ and I. ISSAK, 2020. Online Identification of Interaction Behaviors From Haptic Data During Collaborative Object Transfer IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(1), 96-102
• SINGH J, SRINIVASAN AR, NEUMANN G and KUCUKYILMAZ A, 2020. Haptic-Guided Teleoperation of a 7-DoF Collaborative Robot Arm with an Identical Twin Master. IEEE transactions on haptics. (In Press.)
• SARI, SERCAN and KUCUKYILMAZ, AYSE, 2019. VR-Fit: Walking-in-Place Locomotion with Real Time Step Detection for VR-Enabled Exercise In: Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. 255-266
• B. UGURLU, M. ACER, D. E. BARKANA, I. GOCEK, A. KUCUKYILMAZ, Y. Z. ARSLAN, H. BASTURK, E. SAMUR, E. UGUR, R. UNAL and O. BEBEK, 2019. A Soft+Rigid Hybrid Exoskeleton Concept in Scissors-Pendulum Mode: A Suit for Human State Sensing and an Exoskeleton for Assistance In: 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). 518-523
• F. D. DUCHETTO, A. KUCUKYILMAZ, L. IOCCHI and M. HANHEIDE, 2018. Do Not Make the Same Mistakes Again and Again: Learning Local Recovery Policies for Navigation From Human Demonstrations IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4), 4084-4091
• A. KUCUKYILMAZ and Y. DEMIRIS, 2018. Learning Shared Control by Demonstration for Personalized Wheelchair Assistance IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 11(3), 431-442
• CIGIL ECE MADAN, AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2015. Recognition of Haptic Interaction Patterns in Dyadic Joint Object Manipulation IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 8(1), 54-66
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ and YIANNIS DEMIRIS, 2015. One-shot assistance estimation from expert demonstrations for a shared control wheelchair system In: 2015 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, 2013. Haptic Role Allocation and Intention Negotiation in Human-Robot Collaboration
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2013. Role allocation through haptics in physical human-robot interaction In: 2013 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU).
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2013. Intention Recognition for Dynamic Role Exchange in Haptic Collaboration IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 6(1), 58-68
• ALEXANDER MÖRTL, MARTIN LAWITZKY, AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, METIN SEZGIN, CAGATAY BASDOGAN and SANDRA HIRCHE, 2012. The role of roles: Physical cooperation between humans and robots The International Journal of Robotics Research. 31(13), 1656-1674
• S. OZGUR OGUZ, AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2012. Supporting Negotiation Behavior with Haptics-Enabled Human-Computer Interfaces IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 5(3), 274-284
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, SALIH OZGUR OGUZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2012. Improving Human-Computer Cooperation Through Haptic Role Exchange and Negotiation. In: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems Springer London. 229-254
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2011. Conveying intentions through haptics in human-computer collaboration In: 2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference.
• S. OZGUR OGUZ, AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, TEVFIK METIN SEZGIN and CAGATAY BASDOGAN, 2010. Haptic negotiation and role exchange for collaboration in virtual environments In: 2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium.
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ, 2007. Modelling and Animation of Brittle Fracture in Three Dimensions
• AYSE KUCUKYILMAZ and BULENT OZGUC, 2005. An Animation System for Fracturing of Rigid Objects. In: Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005 Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 688-697