Dr.-Ing. Asil Kaan Bozcuoğlu

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Tel: –49 -421 218 64044
Fax: –49 -421 218 64047
Room: TAB 1.56
Mail: asil(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

News

  • My paper, Continuous Modeling of Affordances in a Symbolic Knowledge Base, has been accepted to IROS 2019.
  • On May 6th, I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! You can take a peek on my dissertation from here.
  • I am co-organizing the IROS'18 Workshop “Latest Advances in Big Activity Data Sources for Robotics and New Challenges” which will take place on October 1st, 2018 in Madrid. For the call for papers, please visit the workshop webpage!
  • Our research paper entitled “The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics” has been selected as a finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award and the Best Service Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2018.

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the group of Prof. Michael Beetz. My primary research focus is on knowledge representation and learning using cloud robotics. I have obtained my doctor of engineering (Dr.-Ing.) degree from the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at the University of Bremen in May'19 for my dissertation entitled "Fast Robot Learning using Prospection and Experimental Knowledge: A Cognitive Approach using Narrative-Enabled Episodic Memories and Symbolic Knowledge".

During my doctoral studies, I conducted research as a visiting student at JSK Lab., The University of Tokyo under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Kei Okada in Summer'17. Also, I visited Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang's Biointelligence Lab at Seoul National University in April and May'18.

Previously, I received my M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), where I was a member of KOVAN Research Laboratory, working on the European FP7 project ROSSI under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Erol Şahin and Assoc. Prof. Erhan Öztop. I wrote my master thesis on the cognitive development of grasp behaviour for iCub, an open-source humanoid robotic platform. Prior to my master's degree, I studied Computer Engineering (B.Sc.) at Bilkent University where my graduation project was developing a simulation for The Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge 2010.

You can find more information about me at my personal web site (http://asil.bz).

Projects involved in

Software Projects involved in

Teaching

Supervised Thesis

  • (WS2016/17) Bachelor Thesis of Hagen Münchow entitled Semi-automatic Knowledge Extraction from Kinematic Robot Descriptions

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[1]Jan Winkler, Moritz Tenorth, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "CRAMm – Memories for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities", In Advances in Cognitive Systems, vol. 3, pp. 47–66, 2014. [bibtex]
[2]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki, "The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics", In Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1072-1079, 2018. [bibtex] [doi]
[3]Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Beetz, Michael, "Information System for Storage, Management and Usage for Embodied Intelligent Agents", Chapter in Information Storage from a multi-disciplinary perspective, Springer, 2019. 978-3-030-19261-7 [bibtex] [url]
[4]Yazdani, Fereshta, Blumenthal, Sebastian, Huebel, Nico, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Beetz, Michael and Bruyninckx, Herman, "Query-based Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases for Search and Rescue Tasks", In Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Elsevier, vol. 117, pp. 80-91, 2019. [bibtex] [doi]
Conference Papers
[5]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Erol Sahin, "Traversability on a simple humanoid: What did I just trip over?", In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia, 2011. [bibtex]
[6]Onur Yuruten, Kadir Firat Uyanik, Yigit Caliskan, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Erol Sahin and Sinan Kalkan, "Learning Adjectives and Nouns from Affordances on the iCub Humanoid Robot", In From Animals to Animats 12, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 7426, pp. 330-340, 2012. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[7]Kadir Firat Uyanik, Yigit Caliskan, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Onur Yuruten, Sinan Kalkan and Erol Sahin, "Learning Social Affordances and Using Them for Planning", In CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, 2013. [bibtex]
[8]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz, "Rendering Semantically-Annotated Experiment Videos out of Robot Memories", In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Seoul, Korea, 2015. [bibtex]
[9]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Jan Winkler, Jan-H. Worch, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Georg Bartels, Aude Billard, Asil K. Bozcuoglu, Zhou Fang, Nadia Figueroa, Andrei Haidu, Hagen Langer, Alexis Maldonado, Ana-Lucia Pais, Moritz. Tenorth and Thiemo Wiedemeyer, "Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf]
[10]Bateman, John, Beetz, Michael, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Pomarlan, Mihai, "Heterogeneous Ontologies and Hybrid Reasoning for Service Robotics: The EASE Framework", In Third Iberian Robotics Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 2017. [bibtex]
[11]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "A Cloud Service for Robotic Mental Simulations", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. [bibtex]
[12]Winkler, Jan, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Task Parametrization through Multi-modal Analysis of Robot Experiences (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017. [bibtex]
[13]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Andrei Haidu, Mihai Pomarlan, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Georg Bartels, "KnowRob 2.0 – A 2nd Generation Knowledge Processing Framework for Cognition-enabled Robotic Agents", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf]
[14]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki, "The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 2018. Finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award, Finalist for the Best Service Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex]
[15]Haidu, Andrei, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Beetz, Michael, "KNOWROB-SIM — Game Engine-enabled Knowledge Processing for Cognition-enabled Robot Control", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[16]Yazdani, Fereshta, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Haidu, Andrei, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Team", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex]
[17]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Furuta, Yuki, Okada, Kei, Beetz, Michael and Inaba, Masayuki, "Continuous Modeling of Affordances in a Symbolic Knowledge Base", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS), Macau, China, 2019. Accepted for publication. [bibtex]
[18]Benjamin Alt, Darko Katic, Rainer Jäkel, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "Robot Program Parameter Inference via Differentiable Shadow Program Inversion", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, 2021. [bibtex] [url]
Workshop Papers
[19]Hartmut Messerschmidt, Jan Winkler, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "Experience Based Task and Environment Specification for Plan-based Robotic Agents", In 27. Workshop on Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen, Koblenz, Germany, 2013. [bibtex]
[20]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Fereshta Yazdani, Daniel Beßler, Bogdan Togorean and Michael Beetz, "Reasoning on Communication Between Agents in a Human-Robot Rescue Team", In Towards Intelligent Social Robots – Current Advances in Cognitive Robotics, Seoul, Korea, 2015. [bibtex]





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