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, Istanbul Technical University, 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):

• Y. Oniz, E. Kayacan and O. Kaynak, "A Dynamic Method to Forecast the Wheel Slip for Antilock Braking System and Its Experimental Evaluation", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part B: CYBERNETICS, v.39, no:2, pp. 551-560, 2009.
• 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, v.31, no:1, pp. 33-49,2009.

Conference Papers (in English):

• E. Kayacan, Y. Oniz, O. Kaynak and A.V. Topalov, "Adaptive Control of Antilock Braking System Using Grey Multilayer Feedforward Neural Networks", Proc. of the Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'08), San Diego, California, USA, pp. 356-361, December 11-13 2008.
• 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, Y. Oniz, O. Kaynak and A.V. Topalov, "Kilitlenmeyen Fren Sistemi (KFS)’nin Gri Çok Katmanlı İleri Beslemeli Yapay Sinir Ağları ile Uyarlamalı Kontrolu", TOK 2008 – Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantısı, İstanbul, Türkiye, pp. 453-458, 13-15 Kasım, 2008.
• 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 (trainee).
• Festo Mechatronics Summer School, Sabanci University, Istanbul, 3-9 September 2007 (trainee).
• Festo Mechatronics Summer School, Bogazici University University, Istanbul, 30 June-11 July 2008 (trainer).
• ISESCO-Mechatronics and its Applications to Enhance Industrial Productivity, Indonesia, 16-20 November 2007 (trainer).
• ISESCO-Training Workshop on Mechatronics, Morocco, 11-15 February 2008  (trainer).

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)