Contact Dr Burak Yuksek
Areas of expertise
- Aeronautical Systems
- Autonomous Systems
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Defence Systems Engineering
- Space Systems
Background
Dr. Burak Yuksek received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechatronics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2013 and 2019, respectively. Between 2013-2020, he had worked as a research assistant in ITU Aerospace Research Center (ARC). Burak is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Cranfield University. He is a professional member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Current activities
Dr. Yuksek studies on autonomous aerial systems within the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Cranfield University. He focuses on mathematical modeling, guidance, navigation and control (GNC) system design for fixed-wing and rotary-wing aerial platforms. Current research theme includes adaptive control theory and reinforcement learning on flight control system design and motion planning in the context of urban air mobility and air defense applications.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Yuksek B, Demirezen MU, Inalhan G & Tsourdos A (2021) Cooperative planning for an unmanned combat aerial vehicle fleet using reinforcement learning, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 18 (10) 739-750.
- Yuksek B & Gokhan I (2021) Reinforcement learning based closed‐loop reference model adaptive flight control system design, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 35 (3) 420-440.
- Yuksek B & Inalhan G (2021) Reinforcement learning based closed-loop reference model adaptive flight control system design, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 35 (3) 420-440.
- Burak Y, Kemal UN, Fikret C & Inalhan G (2017) Fault tolerant heading control system design for Turac unmanned aerial vehicle, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 39 (3) 267-276.
- Yuksek B & Kemal Ure N (2016) Optimization of allocation and launch conditions of multiple missiles for three-dimensional collaborative interception of ballistic targets, International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2016 Article No. 9582816.
- Yuksek B, Vuruskan A, Ozdemir U, Yukselen M & Inalhan G (2016) Transition flight modeling of a Fixed-Wing VTOL UAV, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 84 (1-4) 83-105.
- Yukselen A, Genctav M, Kaya M, Ozkol I, Inalhan G, Aktas Y, Ozdemir U, Dereli Y, Tarhan A, Cetin A, Vuruskan A, Yuksek B, Cengiz H, Basdemir S & Ucar M (2016) Rapid prototyping of a Fixed-Wing VTOL UAV for design testing, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 84 (1-4) 639-664.
Conference Papers
- Yuksek B, Guner G, Karali H, Candan B & Inalhan G (2023) Intelligent wargaming approach to increase course of action effectiveness in military operations. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2023, National Harbor, 23-27 January 2023.
- Lou J, Yuksek B, Inalhan G & Tsourdos A (2023) Real-time on-the-fly motion planning via updating tree data of RRT* using neural network inference. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2023, National Harbor, 23-27 January 2023.
- Panoutsakopoulos C, Yuksek B, Inalhan G & Tsourdos A (2021) Towards safe deep reinforcement learning for autonomous airborne collision avoidance systems. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2022, San Diego and Virtual Event, 3-7 January 2022.
- Yuksek B & Inalhan G (2021) Transition flight control system design for fixed-wing VTOL UAV: a reinforcement learning approach. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2022, San Diego and Virtual Event, 3-7 January 2022.
- Bildik E, Yuksek B, Tsourdos A & Inalhan G (2021) Development of reinforcement learning based mission planning method for active off-board decoys on naval platforms. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2022, San Diego and Virtual Event, 3-7 January 2022.
- Yuksek B, Umut Demirezen M & Inalhan G (2021) Development of UCAV fleet autonomy by reinforcement learning in a wargame simulation environment. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2021, Virtual Event, 19-21 January 2021.
- Lou J, Yuksek B, Inalhan G & Tsourdos A (2021) An RRT* based method for dynamic mission balancing for urban air mobility under uncertain operational conditions. In: 2021 AIAA/IEEE 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), San Antonio, 3-7 October 2021.
- Yuksek B, Saldiran E, Cetin A, Yeniceri R & Inalhan G (2020) System identification and model-based flight control system design for an agile maneuvering quadrotor platform. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2020, Orlando, Florida, 6-10 January 2020.
- Can Bekar U, Yuksek B & Inalhan G (2020) High fidelity progressive reinforcement learning for agile maneuvering UAVs. In: AIAA SciTech Forum 2020, Orlando, Florida, 6-10 January 2020.
- Herekoğlu Ö, Hasanzade M, Saldıran E, Çetin A, Özgür İ, Küçükoğlu AG, Üstün MB, Yüksek B, Yeniçeri R, Koyuncu E & İnalhan G (2019) Flight testing of a multiple UAV RF emission and vision based target localization method. In: AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, San Diego, 7-11 January 2019.
- Uzun S, Akbiyik B, Yuksek B, Demirezen MU & Inalhan G (2019) A simulation-based machine learning approach for flight control system design of agile maneuvering multicopters. In: AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, San Diego, 7-11 January 2019.
- Akçakoca M, Atıcı BM, Gever B, Oğuz S, Demir M, Saldiran E, Yuksek B, Koyuncu E, Yeniceri R & Inalhan G (2019) A simulation-based development and verification architecture for micro UAV teams and swarms. In: AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, San Diego, 7-11 January 2019.
- Yuksek B, Saldiran E, Cetin A, Yeniceri R & Inalhan G (2019) A model based flight control system design approach for micro aerial vehicle using integrated flight testing and HIL simulation. In: AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, San Diego, 7-11 January 2019.
- Yuksek B, Ure N & Inalhan G (2018) Cooperative interception of a highly manoeuvrable aerial target. In: 2018 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Kissimmee, 8-12 January 2018.
- Eroglu B, Sahin C, Yuksek B, Ure N & Inalhan G (2018) Deep recurrent and convolutional networks for accelerated fault tolerant adaptive flight control under severe failures. In: 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, 27-29 June 2018.
- Akcal U, Yuksek B & Ure NK (2017) Modeling and simulation of Aerobee-150A sounding rocket. In: AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference 2017, Grapevine, Texas, 9-13 January 2017.
- Aslihan V, Burak Y, Ugur O, Adil Y & Gokhan I (2014) Dynamic modeling of a fixed-wing VTOL UAV. In: 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Orlando, FL, 27-30 May 2014.
- Orkut AY, Ugur O, Yasin D, Farabi TA, Aykut C, Aslihan V, Burak Y, Hande C, Serkan B, Mesut U, Murat G, Adil Y, Ibrahim O, Orhan KM & Gokhan I (2014) A low cost prototyping approach for design analysis and flight testing of the TURAC VTOL UAV. In: 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Orlando, FL, 27-30 May 2014.
