Wel­co­me to the Au­to­ma­tic Con­trol Group

Since September 2025, Erdi Sayar has joined the RAT Group. With his experience in Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI, he will contribute to the group’s research and teaching activities over the next 3 years. We are pleased to welcome him to the team.

We are excited to share our latest IEEE RA-L paper, “VDS-Nav: Volumetric Depth-Based Safe Navigation for Aerial Robots–Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap” VDS-Nav: A novel navigation paradigm that enables aerial robots to safely navigate using linear velocities and yaw rates inferred directly from a sequence of depth images, eliminating the need for pre-trained latent space encoders.

Since July 2025, Dr. Alper Yegenoglu has joined the RAT Group. With his strong background in machine learning and neuromorphic computing, he will support RAT's research and teaching for the next 3 years. Welcome!