ERDAL KAYACAN Ph.D. Student - Teaching Assistant Address: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul / Turkey Phone: +90-212-359 6855 E-mail: erdal.kayacan_at_boun.edu.tr              erdal.kayacan_at_ieee.org Home page: http://www.mecha.ee.boun.edu.tr/kayacan.html

Higher Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering, I.T.U., 2003
M.S., Systems and Control Engineering, Bogazici University, 2006
Ph.D., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bogazici University, Present

Areas of Interest
·  Soft computing
·  Intelligent control
·  Fuzzy theory
·  Grey system theory
·  Analysis and control of electrical machines
·  Harmonizing international standards related to electric machines and drives

Journal Papers (in English):

• E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, “An Adaptive Grey PID Type Fuzzy Controller Design for a Nonlinear Liquid Level System”,  Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (in review)

Conference Papers (in English):

• Y. Oniz, E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, “Simulated and Experimental Study of Antilock Braking System Using Grey Sliding Mode Control”, SMC 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Montreal, Canada, pp. 90-95, October 7-10, 2007.
• Y Oniz, E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, “A Grey Sliding Mode Controller Design for Antilock Braking System”, IDETC/CIE 2007 - ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 1-8, September 4-7, 2007.
• E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, “An Adaptive Grey Fuzzy PID Controller With Variable Prediction Horizon”,  SCIS & ISIS 2006 - International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 760-765, September 20-24, 2006
• E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, “Grey Prediction Based Control of a Non-Linear Liquid Level System Using PID Type Fuzzy Controller”, ICM 2006 - IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 292-296, July 3-5, 2006.

Conference Papers (in Turkish):

• E. Kayacan, B. Ulutaş, A. Büyükşalvarcı ve O. Kaynak,  “Gri Sistem Kuramı ve Finansman Uygulamaları:İMKB Örneği”, UFS 2007 - 11. Ulusal Finans Sempozyumu, Zonguldak, Türkiye, pp. 215-229, 17-20 Ekim, 2007.
• Y. Oniz, E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, “Kilitlenmeyen Fren Sistemi (KFS) için Gri Kayma Kipli Denetleyici Tasarımı”, TOK 2007 – Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantısı, İstanbul, Türkiye, pp. 506-511, 5-7 Eylül, 2007.

• E. Kayacan ve O. Kaynak, “Gri Bulanık PID Denetleyici Tasarımı ve Doğrusal Olmayan Sıvı Seviye Sistemine Uygulanması”, TOK 2006 – Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantısı, Ankara, Türkiye, sayfa 16-21, 6-8 Kasım, 2006.

Certificates:

• Japan-Singapore Partnership Programme for the 21st Century, Mechatronics Technology Application 2007,  Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, 14-29 August 2007.
• Festo Mechatronics Summer School, Sabanci University, Istanbul, 3-9 September 2007.

Personal Thesis:

• Grey Prediction Based Control of a Non-Linear Liquid Level System Using PID Type Fuzzy Controller, M.S. Thesis, Bogazici University, 2006.

Affiliations
   Organization                                                          Member since  
·  IEEE Student Member                                             (Jan, 2006)
·  IEEE Industrial Electronics Society                           (June, 2006)
·  IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society            (Sept, 2007)