Taha Burak Özdemir

Robotics and path planning for autonomous systems.

Research Assistant · PhD Student · İnönü University

My current study is moving toward robotics and path-planning algorithms. My master's research focused on machine-learning methods for ship analysis in Sentinel-1 SAR imagery.

Click the field to set a new target. Drag the dynamic obstacle to force the planner to recompute.

Research visualisationA* · 8-way · LOS smoothing

Dynamic path planning

Interactive route replanning for drone and UGV motion models.

Mobility model
Interactive A-star path-planning field

233 cells explored · 36.5 cells

  • Start / Target
  • Explored
  • Route

Research direction

Current and previous research

The current direction is taking shape through reading, implementation, and evaluation. Earlier SAR work provides the completed research foundation.

Current study

Path Planning

Reading and implementation work around graph search, changing constraints, and reproducible comparison of route-planning methods.

  • A* search
  • Dynamic replanning
  • Evaluation
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Adjacent question

Multi-Agent Systems

A related systems question: how route planning and task allocation interact when autonomous agents coordinate.

  • Coordination
  • Task allocation
  • Autonomous systems
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Master's foundation

Machine Perception

The completed research line behind the publication record: SAR imagery, feature extraction, and machine-learning classifiers for ship analysis.

  • SAR imagery
  • Feature extraction
  • Classification
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Research output

Publications and academic outputs

Journal articles, conference contributions, my master's thesis, and the final report of the TÜBİTAK project to which I contributed.

Google Scholar profile
  1. Journal article

    Ship Classification Based On Co-Occurrence Matrix and Support Vector Machines

    K. Hanbay, T. B. Özdemir

    Electrica, 24(3), 812–817
  2. Journal article

    SAR Ship Detection Using Image Histograms and Machine Learning Approach

    K. Hanbay, M. Çalışan, T. B. Özdemir

    Türk Doğa ve Fen Dergisi, 13(3), 171–175
  3. Conference paper

    Noise Reduced SAR Ship Database

    K. Hanbay, H. Üzen, T. B. Özdemir, Ç. Erçelik

    2024 8th International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium (IDAP)21–22 September 2024Malatya, Türkiyepp. 1–6

Research work

Selected research work

Current path-planning studies and completed SAR research, listed separately from independent software projects.

Current study · evolving

In progress

Path-planning experiments

Small implementations used to compare graph search, changing obstacles, and replanning behaviour while the doctoral research question becomes more specific.

  • A*
  • Search Algorithms
  • Dynamic Replanning
  • Simulation

Completed research · TÜBİTAK 123E344

Completed

SAR ship analysis and detection

Master's-era research and scholarship-supported contribution to TÜBİTAK project 123E344 on ship detection in Sentinel-1 SAR imagery, including dataset construction, noise preprocessing, and machine-learning benchmarks.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • GDAL
  • SAR
  • ESA SNAP
  • Computer Vision

Profile

About

I'm a Research Assistant and PhD researcher in Computer Engineering at İnönü University. My academic background brings together software engineering, machine learning, computer vision, and experimental research software.

Academic journey

Education

Academic training in software engineering, followed by doctoral study in computer engineering.

  1. Computer Engineering · PhD

    İnönü University · Malatya

    Research direction

    The research direction is taking shape around robotics, path-planning algorithms, and autonomous systems.

  2. Software Engineering · MSc

    İnönü University · Malatya

    Thesis focus

    Master's research on machine-learning methods for ship analysis in Sentinel-1 SAR imagery.

  3. Software Engineering · BSc

    Bahçeşehir University · İstanbul

Methods & infrastructure

Research practice

The technical practice behind current algorithm studies, published SAR research, and inspectable research software.

  1. Computational research

    Algorithm prototyping, model development, and reproducible evaluation.

    • Python
    • PyTorch
  2. Remote-sensing workflow

    Dataset preparation and raster processing from the completed Sentinel-1 SAR research.

    • GDAL
    • ESA SNAP
  3. Research software

    Interfaces and services used to turn experiments into inspectable software.

    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • MongoDB Atlas

Correspondence

Let's discuss a research question.

If you have a question, a collaboration idea, or a technical point to discuss around robotics, path planning, autonomous systems, or my earlier SAR work, you are welcome to write.

tahaburak.ozdemir@inonu.edu.tr

For academic and technical correspondence