Duygun Erol Barkana
Papers
56
Total Citations
839
H-Index
16
About
Duygun Erol Barkana is a prominent robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans intelligent control, rehabilitation robotics, and humanoid robot learning. She has made significant contributions to model-free adaptive control, particularly for complex underactuated and chaotic systems, with her 2021 paper on this topic amassing over 100 citations. Her influential exploration-exploitation adaptive law framework (59 citations) has advanced the field of intelligent, model-free control for real-world robotic applications, including bipedal locomotion in unstructured environments. Barkana's rehabilitation robotics research is equally impactful. She developed RehabRoby, an exoskeleton rehabilitation system for upper-extremity recovery, and pioneered the integration of visual error augmentation with assist-as-needed training methods. Her work on coordinated assistive robotic devices for stroke patients and emotion recognition via EEG reflects a deeply human-centered design philosophy. Her finger exoskeleton for tendon injury treatment further demonstrates her translational approach bridging engineering and clinical need. Beyond physical rehabilitation, Barkana has explored cognitive surgical robotics, humanoid robot balancing through reinforcement learning (61 citations), and affective robots for children with hearing disabilities — showcasing a remarkably broad, socially impactful research portfolio that continues to shape modern assistive and autonomous robotics.
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- 4Development of a Cognitive Robotic System for Simple Surgical Tasks53 citations · 2015
- 5Finger exoskeleton for treatment of tendon injuries38 citations · 2009
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