Serkan Şenel

Serkan Şenel is a Researcher at Istanbul Technical University's Aviation Institute in Istanbul, Turkey, focusing on autonomous drone systems and aerospace navigation technologies.

His research interests span:

• Control Engineering: Reinforcement Learning and Control Barrier Functions for adaptive drone control
• Aerospace Navigation: Quaternion-based systems and hardware acceleration for Euler angles conversion
• Multi-drone Systems: Formation flight coordination and solo attack maneuvers
• Hardware Acceleration: Real-time computation optimization for UAV applications

Recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate an integrated approach combining control theory, machine learning, and hardware design to solve critical challenges in UAV autonomy, safety, and computational efficiency across navigation, formation control, and adaptive parameter tuning.