Berat Alper Erol

Berat Alper Erol
Lecturer Dr.

Berat Alper Erol earned his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Kocaeli University, his MSc degree in Software Engineering from St. Mary’s University, and his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), in 2007, 2012, and 2018, respectively. Under Mo Jamshidi’s supervision, his doctoral research at UTSA Autonomous Control Engineering Laboratories has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Bank of America and 80|20 Foundation. After his doctoral program, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate in TECHLAV DoD Center of Excellence in Autonomy at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, USA. During his post-doctoral assignment, Dr. Erol was a member of the team which delivered a DoD contract, and worked in a few multi-institutional research grants including AFRL, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Lockheed Martin Corporation and NASA Langley Research Center. His current research interests include manned-unmanned teaming, unmanned autonomous systems, intelligent robotics, machine learning, testing and evaluation (TRL5 +), human robot interactions, and the Internet of robotic things. He is a Member of the IEEE, AIAA, and IEEE Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

  • B.Sc. : Mathematics, Kocaeli University (2007)
  • M.Sc. : Software Engineering, St. Mary’s University(2012)
  • M.Sc. : Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio(2012)
  • Ph.D. : Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio(2018)

2023

Celil Yilmaz; Abdulkadir Ozgun; Berat A Erol; Abdurrahman Gumus

Open-Source Visual Target-Tracking System Both on Simulation Environment and Real Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Inproceedings

International Congress of Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 147–159, Springer 2023.

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Egemen Aksoy; Arif Dorukan Çaįr; Berat A Erol; Abdurrahman Gumus

Real Time Computer Vision Based Robotic Arm Controller with ROS and Gazebo Simulation Environment Inproceedings

2023 14th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ELECO), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2023.

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2021

Mrinmoy Sarkar; Xuyang Yan; Berat A Erol; Ioannis Raptis; Abdollah Homaifar

A novel search and survey technique for unmanned aerial systems in detecting and estimating the area for wildfires Journal Article

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 145 , pp. 103848, 2021.

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Mrinmoy Sarkar; Xuyang Yan; Berat A Erol; Ioannis Raptis; Abdollah Homaifar

A novel search and survey technique for unmanned aerial systems in detecting and estimating the area for wildfires Journal Article

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 145 , pp. 103848, 2021.

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Abdollah Homaifar; Ali Karimoddini; Mike Heiges; Mubbashar A Khan; Berat A Erol; Shabnam Nazmi

A software tool for evaluating unmanned autonomous systems Journal Article

arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10871, 2021.

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Berat A Erol; Abhijit Majumdar; Patrick and Bhaskaran Divya Benavidez; Mohammad Jamshidi; Benjamin Factor; Arman Rezakhani

Surveillance systems and methods for automatic real-time monitoring Miscellaneous

2021, (US Patent 10,979,471).

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2020

Xuyang Yan; Shabnam Nazmi; Berat A Erol; Abdollah Homaifar; Biniam Gebru; Edward Tunstel

An efficient unsupervised feature selection procedure through feature clustering Journal Article

Pattern Recognition Letters, 131 , pp. 277–284, 2020.

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Mrinmoy Sarkar; Abdollah Homaifar; Berat A Erol; Mohammadreza Behniapoor; Edward Tunstel

Pie: a tool for data-driven autonomous uav flight testing Journal Article

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 98 , pp. 421–438, 2020.

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2019

Berat A Erol; Abhijit Majumdar; Patrick Benavidez; Paul Rad; Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo; Mo Jamshidi

Toward artificial emotional intelligence for cooperative social human--machine interaction Journal Article

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 7 (1), pp. 234–246, 2019.

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Xuyang Yan; Mohammad Razeghi-Jahromi; Abdollah Homaifar; Berat A Erol; Abenezer Girma; Edward Tunstel

A novel streaming data clustering algorithm based on fitness proportionate sharing Journal Article

IEEE Access, 7 , pp. 184985–185000, 2019.

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Abdollah Homaifar; Ali Karimoddini; Berat A Erol; Mubbashar A Khan; Edward Tunstel; Russell L Roberts; Reed F Young; Kyle Snyder; Raymond Scott Swanson; Mo Jamshidi; others

Operationalizing autonomy: A transition from the innovation space to real-world operations Journal Article

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 5 (4), pp. 23–32, 2019.

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2018

Berat A Erol; Abhijit Majumdar; Jonathan Lwowski; Patrick Benavidez; Paul Rad; Mo Jamshidi

Improved deep neural network object tracking system for applications in home robotics Journal Article

Computational Intelligence for Pattern Recognition, pp. 369–395, 2018.

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Zhanibek Kozhirbayev; Berat A Erol; Altynbek Sharipbay; Mo Jamshidi

Speaker recognition for robotic control via an iot device Inproceedings

2018 World Automation Congress (WAC), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2018.

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Berat A Erol; Conor Wallace; Patrick Benavidez; Mo Jamshidi

Voice activation and control to improve human robot interactions with IoT perspectives Inproceedings

2018 World automation congress (WAC), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2018.

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2017

Abhijith R Puthussery; Karthik P Haradi; Berat A Erol; Patrick Benavidez; Paul Rad; Mo Jamshidi

A deep vision landmark framework for robot navigation Inproceedings

2017 12th system of systems engineering conference (SoSE), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2017.

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2016

Berat A Erol; Satish Vaishnav; Joaquin D Labrado; Patrick Benavidez; Mo Jamshidi

Cloud-based Control and vSLAM through cooperative Mapping and Localization Inproceedings

2016 World Automation Congress (WAC), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2016.

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Nicolas Gallardo; Karthik Pai; Berat A Erol; Patrick Benavidez; Mo Jamshidi

Formation control implementation using kobuki turtlebots and parrot bebop drone Inproceedings

2016 World Automation Congress (WAC), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2016.

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Safe and secure autonomous driving technologies through image segmentation and object identification, TÜBİTAK 1512
Smart agricultural technologies for monitoring crops, diseases and yield via unmanned vehicle systems, TÜBİTAK 1512
NASA C16-2B00-NCA
NASA ULI 2 CFR 200.514
US DoD FA8750-15-2-0116
  • B.Sc. : Mathematics, Kocaeli University (2007)
  • M.Sc. : Software Engineering, St. Mary’s University(2012)
  • M.Sc. : Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio(2012)
  • Ph.D. : Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio(2018)
  • IZTECH Computer Engineering Dept., Gulbahce, 35430 Urla, İzmir, Turkey
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  • beraterol@iyte.edu.tr
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