Papers
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106
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About
S. Kalaycioglu is a robotics and control systems researcher whose career spans over three decades, with sustained contributions to space robotics, autonomous manipulation, and advanced control theory. Beginning with foundational work in the early 1990s on adaptive hybrid force/position control for Space Station Alpha and ground-based autonomous robot operation, Kalaycioglu established an early specialization in the unique challenges of space-based manipulation. A significant thread throughout their work is real-time collision avoidance for redundant manipulators in unstructured environments, addressed through innovative modified impedance control frameworks that transcended conventional trajectory planning limitations. Their research into flexible manipulator vibration control using smart structures further demonstrated a commitment to practical space robotics performance. More recently, Kalaycioglu has produced highly impactful work on multi-robot coordination for on-orbit servicing, including dual-arm redundant space manipulators (27 citations) and passivity-based nonlinear model predictive control for multi-robot space systems (17 citations). Extending these methods to lunar rover systems and deep learning-assisted inverse kinematics reflects a forward-looking research trajectory. Collectively, Kalaycioglu's body of work represents a cohesive and evolving contribution to autonomous space robotics, bridging classical control theory with modern computational approaches.
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- 4Vibration Control of Flexible Manipulators Using Smart Structures14 citations · 1998
- 5Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Rover Robotics System11 citations · 2023
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- 10Ground-based control of Space Station Freedom-based robots2 citations · 2003