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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the development of intelligent autonomous vehicles

Overview

Umit Ozguner is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and computer science, with significant work in control and systems engineering, automotive engineering, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

The scientist's recent publications include works on autonomous vehicle technology, traffic control, and crowd dynamics, mainly appearing in reputable journals and conferences. Notable papers authored or coauthored by Ozguner comprise:

  • A Vision-Based Social Distancing and Critical Density Detection System for COVID-19, 2021, Sensors
  • Predicting Pedestrian Crossing Intention With Feature Fusion and Spatio-Temporal Attention, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • A Social Force Based Pedestrian Motion Model Considering Multi-Pedestrian Interaction with a Vehicle, 2020, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
  • A Vision-based Social Distancing and Critical Density Detection System for COVID-19, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Towards Guaranteed Safety Assurance of Automated Driving Systems With Scenario Sampling: An Invariant Set Perspective, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

Ozguner has frequently published in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Control Systems

Coauthor collaborations include:

  • Keith Redmill
  • Ekim Yurtsever
  • Dongfang Yang
  • Linda Capito
  • Bowen Weng

Their main research topics span:

  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Traffic control and management
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Umit Ozguner has received multiple recognitions, including the IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award in 2015 and the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2010 for contributions to intelligent autonomous vehicles.

Best Publications

  • A control engineer's guide to sliding mode control

    K.D. Young;V.I. Utkin;U. Ozguner

  • Urban multi-hop broadcast protocol for inter-vehicle communication systems

    Gökhan Korkmaz;Eylem Ekici;Füsun Özgüner;Ümit Özgüner

  • ABS control using optimum search via sliding modes

    S. Drakunov;U. Ozguner;P. Dix;B. Ashrafi

  • Sliding Mode Control of a Quadrotor Helicopter

    Rong Xu;U. Ozguner

  • Stability of linear feedback systems with random communication delays

    R. Krtolica;Ü. Özgüner;H. Chan;H. Göktas

  • An O(T/sup 2/) boundary layer in sliding mode for sampled-data systems

    Wu-Chung Su;S.V. Drakunov;U. Ozguner

  • Automated lane change controller design

    C. Hatipoglu;U. Ozguner;K.A. Redmill

  • Motion planning for multitarget surveillance with mobile sensor agents

    Zhijun Tang;U. Ozguner

  • Cloud-Based Velocity Profile Optimization for Everyday Driving: A Dynamic-Programming-Based Solution

    Engin Ozatay;Simona Onori;James Wollaeger;Ümit Özgüner

  • Closed-loop control of systems over a communications network with queues

    H. Chan;Ü. Özgüner

  • Lane Change and Merge Maneuvers for Connected and Automated Vehicles: A Survey

    David Bevly;Xiaolong Cao;Mikhail Gordon;Guchan Ozbilgin

  • A decentralized variable structure control algorithm for robotic manipulators

    R. Morgan;U. Ozguner

  • Acceleration feedback for control of a flexible manipulator arm

    Paul T. Kotnik;Stephen Yurkovich;Ümit Özgüner

  • Systems for Safety and Autonomous Behavior in Cars: The DARPA Grand Challenge Experience

    U. Ozguner;C. Stiller;K. Redmill

  • Frequency shaping compensator design for sliding mode

    K. David Young;Ümit Özgüner

  • Unconstrained and constrained mode expansions for a flexible slewing link

    Enrique Barbieri;Ümit Özgüner

  • An Boundary Layer in Sliding Mode for Sampled-Data Systems

    Wu-Chung Su;Sergey V. Drakunov;Ümit Özgüner;S. V. Drakunov

  • Autonomous Ground Vehicles

    Umit Ozguner;Tankut Acarman;Keith Redmill

  • A Vision-Based Social Distancing and Critical Density Detection System for COVID-19.

    Dongfang Yang;Ekim Yurtsever;Vishnu Renganathan;Keith A. Redmill

  • Stability and performance improvement of extremum seeking control with sliding mode

    Yaodong Pan;Ümit Özgüner;Tankut Acarman

  • Systems for Safety and Autonomous Behavior in Cars: The DARPA Grand Challenge Experience Car safety systems are helping drivers to stay in their lanes, improving their night vision and are making driving decisions where millisecond response is needed.

    Umit Ozguner;Christoph Stiller;Keith Redmill

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Davison
Edward J. Davison University of Toronto
Farshad Khorrami
Farshad Khorrami New York University
Kevin M. Passino
Kevin M. Passino The Ohio State University
Vadim I. Utkin
Vadim I. Utkin The Ohio State University
Giorgio Rizzoni
Giorgio Rizzoni The Ohio State University
Malcolm C. Smith
Malcolm C. Smith University of Cambridge
Umit Y. Ogras
Umit Y. Ogras University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eylem Ekici
Eylem Ekici The Ohio State University
Toshio Fukuda
Toshio Fukuda Nagoya University
Markos Papageorgiou
Markos Papageorgiou Technical University of Crete

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