Ahmet Ercan Tekden
PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology
Contact:
e-mail: tekden AT chalmers DOT se
About Me
I am a PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology, supervised by Yasemin Bekiroğlu.
In my MSc, I was a research assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University, supervised by Emre Uğur, and I was one of the first members of Cognition, Learning, and Robotics (CoLoRs) research group, Istanbul, Turkey. I worked in EU funded Horizon 2020 project, Robots Understanding Their Actions by Imagining Their Effects (IMAGINE). My research was about enabling robots to understand their environment, and predict the consequences of their action on this environment.
My research interests lie in representation learning and robotic manipulation. In particular, I am interested in pursuing the research question of how an agent should interact with its environment so that it can learn underlying structured models of the environment that can be used in various manipulation tasks.
News
- Our paper on "Grasp Transfer based on Self-Aligning Implicit Representations of Local Surfaces" has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), January 2024.
- Our paper on "Object and Relation Centric Representations for Push Effect Prediction" has been accepted for publication in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), January 2024.
- Our paper on "Grasp Transfer based on Self-Aligning Implicit Representations of Local Surfaces" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), July 2023.
- Our paper on "Neural Field Movement Primitives for Joint Modelling of Scenes and Motions" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), June 2023.
- Our paper on "Sliding Touch-based Exploration for Modeling Unknown Object Shape with Multi-finger Hands" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), June 2023.
- My application to affiliated position in the WASP graduate school has been approved. I am now a WASP affiliated PhD student.
Videos