Yunus Emre Danabaş
Mechatronics / Electronics Engineering Double Major · Sabancı University
I hold a double degree in Mechatronics and Electronics Engineering from Sabancı University: I graduated 1st in Mechatronics (2025) and completed my second B.Sc. in Electronics (2026). My work sits at the intersection of robotics, control, and embedded systems, with an emphasis on building systems that are reproducible, testable, and robust enough to leave the lab.
My research experience includes work with PRISMA Lab (University of Naples Federico II), the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (TUM MIRMI), and Sabancı University’s Human–Machine Interaction Laboratory with Prof. Volkan Patoğlu. Across these settings, I’ve focused on simulation-driven development, sensing, and control — moving from requirements to working prototypes.
In industry, I contributed at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM and Pubinno Inc. on multi-robot coordination and automated mechatronic systems. At AS Robotics (COMAU Turkey), I led technical development of a TÜBİTAK-backed industrial robotics project connecting embedded sensing, ROS 2, and COMAU robot programming workflows. Leading the SURover student robotics team strengthened my ability to turn simulation results into reliable hardware under real constraints.
I served as a teaching assistant at Sabancı University (2024–2026) for ME312 Analysis & Synthesis of Mechanisms, ME403 Introduction to Robotics, and ME304 Motion Control Systems, working with Prof. Volkan Patoğlu, Asst. Prof. Dr. Meltem Elitaş, and Asst. Prof. Melih Türkseven. I enjoy bridging theory and practice, helping students move from core concepts to functional prototypes.
I like building things that work, testing them in real settings, and improving them step by step. If you’d like to collaborate, feel free to reach out.
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Research Interests
I’m broadly interested in robotics, and I’ve intentionally explored many of its subfields through projects, internships, and coursework. With a mixed background in mechatronics, electronics, and a solid base of computer science courses, I enjoy working at the boundary between hardware and software — and picking the right tool for the job.
I’m especially interested in human-centered robotics, including teleoperation, robot teaching, and haptics: problems where the goal is to make robots easier to control, safer to use, and more trustworthy in real settings.
On the autonomy side, I’m interested in robot control and learning for systems that interact with the world — especially contact-rich tasks where modeling and sensing both matter. I’m also drawn to simulation-driven development: pipelines that make it easy to test ideas quickly and then move them onto real robots.
Finally, I’m interested in mobile robotics — navigation and practical autonomy in imperfect environments. I care about reliability, robustness, and clean integration of sensing, control, and software, so the system works outside ideal lab conditions.