Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serdar KÜÇÜK Biography. Education: 2004: Ph.D. in Technical Educational Faculty, Electrical Department, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, TURKEY. Thesis Title: Modeling and off-line programming of industrial robots 1998: M.Sc. in Technical Educational Faculty, Electronic and Telecommunication Department, Marmara University, Istanbul, TURKEY. Thesis Title: Learning & teaching of PIC16C65 microcontroller with computer simulation 1995: B.Sc. in Technical Educational Faculty, Electronic and Computer Department, Marmara University, Istanbul, TURKEY. Publications: International Journals (SCI, SCI-expended): 1. Serdar KUCUK, A dexterity comparison for 3-DOF planar parallel manipulators with two kinematic chains using genetic algorithms, Mechatronics, vol. 19, issue 6, pp. 868-877, September 2009.
2. Metin TOZ, Serdar KUCUK, Dynamics simulation toolbox for industrial robot manipulators, Inc. Computer applications engineering education, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 319-330, June 2010. 3. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, Link mass optimization of serial robot manipulators using genetic algorithm, Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, vol. 4251, pp. 138-144, 2006. 4. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, Comparative study of performance indices for fundamental robot manipulators, Robotics and autonomous systems, vol. 54, issue 7, pp. 567-573, 31 July 2006. 5. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, An off-line robot simulation toolbox, Inc. Computer applications engineering education, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 41-52, March 2010. 6. Serdar KUCUK, Simulation and design tool for performance analysis of planar parallel manipulators, Transactions of the society for modeling and simulation international, vol. 88(5) pp. 542 556, 2012. International Conferences: 1. Metin TOZ, Serdar KUCUK, A comparative study for computational cost of fundamental robot manipulators", 2011 IEEE International conference on industrial technology (ICIT), pp. 289-293, March 14-16, 2011 Auburn, Alabama, USA. 2. Metin TOZ, Serdar KUCUK, A type synthesis analysis for generalized Stewart platforms 12th International workshop on research and education in mechatronics, pp. 357-363, September 15th 16th 2011, Kocaeli, Turkey. 3. Cihan AYIZ, Serdar KUCUK, The kinematics of industrial robot manipulators based on the exponential rotational matrices IEEE International symposium on industrial electronics, Seoul, Korea, pp. 977-982, July 5-8, 2009.
4. Serdar KUCUK, Effects of kinematics design on tracking performance of model-based adaptive control KES 2007/WIRN 2007, Part I, LNAI, 4692, pp. 655-663, 12-14, September, 2007. 5. Yavuz AYDIN, Serdar KUCUK, Quaternion based inverse kinematics for industrial robot manipulators with Euler wrist, IEEE international conference on mechatronics, Budapest, Hungary, pp.581-586, July 3-5, 2006. 6. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, The inverse kinematics solutions of fundamental robot manipulators with offset wrist, IEEE ICM/HIMA, Taipei, Taiwan June 10-12, pp.197-202, 2005. 7. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, An off-line simulation package for robotics education and industrial purposes, IEEE 11th MMAR conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, pp. 653-658, August 29-September 1, 2005. 8. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, Robot workspace optimization based on a novel local and global performance indices, IEEE International symposium on industrial electronics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1593-1598, June 20-23, 2005. 9. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, The inverse kinematics solutions of industrial robot manipulators, IEEE Conference on mechatronics, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 274-279, June 3-5, 2004. 10. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, Workspace optimization of fundamental robot manipulators, IEEE 12th Mediterranean conference on control and automation, June 6-9, 2004, Kuşadası, TURKEY. National journals and Conferences (In Turkish): 1. Serdar KÜÇÜK, Zafer BİNGÜL, Robot sistemlerinde kinematik yöntemlerin karşılaştırılması, Politeknik dergisi, cilt: 7, sayı: 2, s. 107-117, 2004.
2. Burak İNNER, Serdar KÜÇÜK, Zafer BİNGÜL, Farklı yapıdaki Stewart platformlarının tek bir çatı üzerinden tasarımı ve benzetimi", Otomatik kontrol ulusal toplantısı, pp. 400-405, 21-23 Eylül 2010, Gebze, Kocaeli. Editorial Editorial board member 1. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems", Robotik, Yıllık, Intech, ISBN (Yayın) No: ISSN: 1729-8806. Book Editor 1. Serial and Parallel Robot Manipulators - Kinematics, Dynamics, Control and Optimization" book edited by Serdar Kucuk", Robotic,, In-tech, ISBN (Yayın) No: ISBN 978-953-51-0437-7 Books (In Turkish): 1. Serdar KÜÇÜK, Zafer BİNGÜL, Robot kinematiği, Birsen yayınevi, 2005. 2. Serdar KÜÇÜK, Zafer BİNGÜL, Robot kontrolü ve dinamiği, Birsen yayınevi, 2008. 3. Serdar KÜÇÜK, Elektronik, Birsen yayınevi, 2005 (The first addition in 1997). 4. Serdar KÜÇÜK, Otomasyon sistemleri, Birsen Yayınevi, 2005 (The first addition in 2000). Books chapters: 1. Serdar KUCUK, Serial and Parallel Robot Manipulators - Kinematics, Dynamics, Control and Optimization" (Book title): Inverse Dynamics of RRR Fully Planar Parallel Manipulator Using DH Method (chapter 1), 2012. 2. Serdar KUCUK, Robot manipulators, new achievements (Book title): Kinematics, singularity and dexterity analysis of planar parallel manipulators based on DH method (chapter 21), 2010.
3. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, Robot manipulators (Book title): Link mass optimization using genetic algorithms for industrial robot manipulators (chapter 15), 2008. 4. Serdar KUCUK, Zafer BINGUL, Industrial robotics: Theory, modeling and control (Book title): Robot kinematics: Forward and inverse kinematics (chapter 4), 2007. Projects: Completed: 1. TUBITAK Project (107M148): The design of six degrees of freedom parallel manipulator, September, 2009. Courses Taught: 1. MKT317 Microprocessors 2. EBB253 Electronics circuits 3. EBB448 Robotics 4. EBE535 Modeling of parallel manipulators