Hi, I'm Murat!

I am a Perception Engineer who enable autonomous agents to interact with their environment. I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering department from Kocaeli University, Turkey, in 2013.

I did my Master's in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech under Tomonari Furukawa where I proposed a new Wireless Propagation Model and an Indoor Localization technique specifically addressing the Non-Line-of-Sight and Non-Field-of-View nature of indoor environments.

Currently I am pursuing my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech under Paul Plassmann and Creed F. Jones.

My research interests are Robot Perception, Robot Localization, Computer and Machine Vision, Machine Learning.

Research and Projects

Research Interests

Although my research areas are Robot Perception, Robot Localization, Computer and Machine Vision, Machine Learning, I have had a deep passion to learn and experiment new stuff in a wide-spectrum fields of STEM, from Radio Wave Propagation to Neural Networks.

Projects

  • Large-scale Occupant Localization for Evaluation of Classroom Engagement News Article
  • Indoor Robot Localization with Radio Wave Propagation Approximation, (2016) Web, Paper
  • Motion Control System for an Automatic Road-profiling System, (2016)
  • Dimensioning Box with Kinect Sensor based on Image Processing, (2013) Slideshow
  • Mine Automation and Remote Tracking via Wireless Sensor Networks, (2013), Web
  • Remote Learning Laboratory, Mecfuture (2013), ​Web - ​YouTube
  • Lane Departure Detection System, (2013), Slideshow
  • Wearless Magnetic Breaking System, (2012)
  • The Design of an Arduino & Android controlled Ball & Plate Game, (2011)
  • The ​ Crawling Mechanism based on Theo Jansen's Linkage​ Model​, (2010)

Publications

  • [1] Ambarkutuk, M., & Furukawa, T. (2017, November). A grid-based indoor radiolocation technique based on spatially coherent path loss model. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI) (pp. 220-226). IEEE.
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  • [2] Ocak, H., Ambarkutuk, M., Küçükyıldız, G., & Karakaya, S. (2015, May). Image processing based package volume detection with Kinect. In Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2015 23th (pp. 515-518). IEEE.
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  • [3] H. E. Guner, O. Tekelioglu, M. Ambarkutuk, L. Bilginer, A. Askin, and S. Erkan, ”Meslek yuksek okullari ve universiteler icin internet tabanli mekatronik laboratuvari uygulamasi,” in ISITES 2015, (Valencia, Spain), 3rd International Symposium On Innovative Technologies In Engineering And Science.
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  • [4] H. E. Guner, O. Tekelioglu, M. Ambarkutuk, L. Bilginer, A. Askin, and S. Erkan, ”Distance mechatronic laboratory for smes universities and vocational high schools in turkey,” in Mechatronika 2014, (Brno, CzechRepublic), The 16th International Conference on Mechatronics, 2014.
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  • [5] H. E. Guner, M. Ambarkutuk, L. Bilginer, and C. Oysu, ”Magnetic braking and speed stabilization,” in Mechanika, 2013 Conference Issue, (Kaunas, Lithuania), pp. 83–86, Proceedings of 18th International Conference, 2013.
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  • [6] H. E. Guner and M. Ambarkutuk, ”Building wireless mesh sensor networks using xbee and arduino,” in Computer Science and Engineering 2013, (Lviv, Ukraine), Lviv Polytechnic National University, 2013.
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My Resume

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