The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) recently welcomed two new faculty with expertise in intelligent transportation systems (ITS); professors Levent Guvenc and Bilin Aksun Guvenc come to Ohio State from Turkey where both were faculty at Istanbul Okan University and Istanbul Technical University. Together, they led a highly successful Automotive Control and Mechatronics Research Center of Excellence funded by the European Union at Istanbul Technical University. This husband-wife team are aligned with CrIS UTC and will bring expertise to many of our research endeavors. Bilin’s specialties are in automotive control systems—primarily vehicle dynamics controllers, such as electronic stability control, adaptive cruise control, cooperative adaptive cruise control and collision warning and avoidance systems. She also has expertise in ‘Smart Cities.’ Levent’s specialties are in vehicle active safety, vehicle systems and their control, cooperative automated mobility, atomic force microscopy (AFM at nanometer levels) and robotics.
The pair have worked on many interesting projects, both individually and together. Levent has undertaken research on automation systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, helicopter stability and control, automated parking, lane keeping assistance, driver attention monitoring, rollover avoidance, driver adaptive assistance systems, hybrid electric and fully electric vehicles, automated driving and cooperative mobility. Bilin has worked on semi-active suspension control of a light commercial car, drive-line modeling and experimental identification, low-cost adaptive cruise control simulators, and automated driving projects. Together, they have worked on projects involving active chassis control, steering control, automated vehicles, and cooperative mobility. They also jointly participated in the 2011 Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge with Team Mekar (partnering with CAR’s Control and Intelligent Transportation Research laboratory), where they placed fifth in the individual vehicle category and seventh overall.
Currently, Bilin is working on projects involving fault diagnosis, detection and isolation (FDI), autonomous vehicles for the elderly and Smart Cities. Levent is working on projects involving cooperative automated mobility and advanced driver assistance systems.