Dr. Hatice KOSE-BAGCI (formerly Hatice KOSE )

Research Fellow
Adaptive Systems Research Group,
Science and Technology Research Institute

 

 

 

 

 

Address:
The University of Hertfordshire,
School of Computer Science,
College Lane, Hatfield,
Hertfordshire AL10 9AB,
United Kingdom


e-mail: h.kose-bagci AT herts.ac.uk
phone: +44-1707-28-1032

 

Research interests

  • Interaction based imitation games for robots
  • Social interaction between human beings-humanoids
  • Designing benchmarks for human-humanoid interaction
  • Robot football
  • Market-based algorithms for task allocation of multi-agent robot teams
  • Computer Vision
  • Multi-agent Localization and planning for autonomous mobile robots

 

Research projects

 Project Topics

Supporting Party

Support

Status

Robotcub

(Participant from University of Hertfordshire)

EU 6th frame project

451.280 EUR

In progress

Robot Soccer (Participant)

Bogazici University Research Fund, Bogazici University Foundation, Sony Eurasia, Robocup Federation, Korean Robot Soccer Association

$80.000

completed

Development of a Localization Methods for  multi-robot teams  (Participant)

Boğaziçi University Research Fund

$4.000

completed

Publications

  • Ph.D. thesis : KOSE-BAGCI, H., " A Collaborative Multi-agent Localization Technique for Autonomous Mobile Robots", PhD Thesis, Bogazici University, 2006 (Supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Levent Akin, Co-supervisors Prof. Dr. Cem Say, Prof. Dr. Isil Bozma)
  • MSc thesis : KOSE, H., Towards a Robust Cognitive Architecture for Autonomous Mobile Robots, MSc. Thesis, Bogazici University, 2000 (Supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Levent Akin).

Supervised PhDs

  • Qiming Shen (University of Hertfordshire): Human-robot interaction dynamics and imitation, associated to RobotCub (co-supervisor, in progress)

Events

 

  • PC member of AISB 2009, Edinburgh, UK
  • PC member of IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, CA, USA
  • Participated in AAAI Spring Symposium, 2009, in Stanford, USA (presenter)
  • Took part in the STRI public event, and robotic demonstrations, 2008, UK
  • Took part in a public event in the university of Hertfordshire with primary school children and demonstrated human-humanoid drumming game with 68 children, 2008.
  • Directed human-humanoid drumming experiments with 48 adults, 2008.
  • Participated in RO-MAN 2008, in Munich, Germany (presenter and co-chair)
  • Participated in ESCIS 2008, in Edinburgh, UK (invited talk)
  • Participated in HUMANOIDS 2007, in Pittsburgh, USA (presenter)
  • Refereed in IEEE publications, Robocup, ICRA, ECAL, RO-MAN conferences.
  • Participated in VVV’07 iCub summer school.
  • Participated  in Robotcub project meetings.
  • Participated  in CLAWAR/EURON 2004, in Vienna, Austria.
  • Participated in the Doctoral Mentoring Program in Columbia University, New York, USA, during AAMAS 2004 symposium with scholarship of AAMAS community. Her Doctoral Mentor was Gal Kaminka.
  • Participated in Robocup 2003, in Padova, Italy
  • Participated in European Summer School on Cooperative Robotics (EURON), in Lizbon, Portugal
  • Participated in Robocup 2002, in Fukuoka, Japan
  • Participated in FIRA 2002, in Seoul, South Korea
  • Participated in 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress , in Seoul, South Korea
  • A member of Cerberus 4 legged robot football team (SONY AIBOs).(2001-2005)
  • Robot football with Khepera robots (http://www.k-team.com/, http://www.cyberbotics.com/, http://www.cyberbotics.com/resources/kose2/index.html)(2000-2001)

Media Coverage

Some of the selected media events from the current project Robotcub are as below:

1) British Satellite News including interview with Hatice Kose-Bagci on her work in Robotcub

http://www.bsn.org.uk/view_all.php?id=13856

2) STRI Showcase event 5-7 March 2008: Hatice Kose-Bagci’s work on human-humanoid drumming in Robotcub was identified as one of the highlights of the event

http://www.herts.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/science-and-technology-research-institute/strishowcase/around-the-showcase.cfm

3) Interview with Prof. C. L. Nehaniv on Anglia TV referring to Dr. Kose-Bagci’s work

http://www.itvlocal.com/anglia/?player=ANG_HomePage_15&void=160818

 

Selected media events related to my previous work about Robocup and robot soccer:

http://robot.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/index.php?n=Press.Press