Papers
33
Total Citations
1,084
H-Index
15
About
Yasemin Bekiroglu is a prominent robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotic manipulation, tactile sensing, and machine learning. Her research has fundamentally advanced how robots perceive, grasp, and interact with objects in uncertain, real-world environments. Bekiroglu's most influential contributions center on grasp stability assessment, where she pioneered learning-based methods that leverage haptic and tactile data to enable robots to evaluate and adapt their grasps in real time — work that has accumulated nearly 200 citations and reshaped thinking in robotic manipulation. Her investigations into tactile exploration for shape perception and object content classification further demonstrate her commitment to multimodal sensory integration, enabling robots to build richer environmental models from incomplete data. Bekiroglu has also made notable strides in dynamic grasping of moving objects and human-robot collaborative assembly, broadening the practical applicability of her research to industrial settings. Particularly noteworthy is her pilot work on autonomous robotic systems for nuclear decommissioning, addressing one of the most challenging and socially significant robotics deployment scenarios. With over 800 citations across her body of work, Bekiroglu stands as a leading voice in intelligent robotic manipulation research.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Assessing Grasp Stability Based on Learning and Haptic Data189 citations · 2011
- 2Enhancing visual perception of shape through tactile glances130 citations · 2013
- 3Learning of grasp adaptation through experience and tactile sensing109 citations · 2014
- 4Dynamic grasp and trajectory planning for moving objects102 citations · 2018
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- 6What's in the container? Classifying object contents from vision and touch52 citations · 2014
- 7Learning grasp stability based on tactile data and HMMs51 citations · 2010
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- 10Learning tactile characterizations of object- and pose-specific grasps42 citations · 2011