{"id":299,"date":"2017-01-28T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T07:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2017-01-28T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T07:52:29","slug":"haldun-komsuoglu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/en\/about-us\/team\/haldun-komsuoglu\/","title":{"rendered":"Haldun Komsuoglu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Founder and CEO<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/haldunkomsuoglu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Haldun-Komsu\u011flu-Head-Shot-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Dr. Komsuoglu is a robotics expert and entrepreneur with over 19 years of research, development and start-up experience. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. on systems control with robotics emphasis from the University of Michigan and continued his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Haldun_Komsuoglu\">early academic career<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grasp.upenn.edu\">GRASP Lab<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0as a research fellow. Focusing on biologically inspired high-performance mobility and high-dexterity manipulation systems Mr. Komsuoglu served as a key personnel in several critically acclaimed multi-institutional robotics projects sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/tardec\">United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\">National Science Foundation (NSF)<\/a>. Some noteworthy projects he was involved with includes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.darpa.mil\/darpatech99\/Presentations\/dsopdf\/dsorudolph.pdf\">DARPA-CBS<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kodlab.seas.upenn.edu\/RHex\/ResearchRHex\">DARPA-RHex<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kodlab.seas.upenn.edu\/RiSE\/Home\">DARPA-RiSE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6188\">NSF-FIBR<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanandroid.com\/tech-maugv.html\">MA-UGV<\/a>. In these projects Dr. Komsuoglu engaged experimental robotic research, simulation, embedded system development (hardware\/software), control systems engineering and analytic studies. Since 2006 Dr. Komsuoglu has been heavily engaged in business development. He founded and ran technology start-up companies focusing on commercialization of several robotic technologies he helped develop. In 2009 he founded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\">Robolit LLC<\/a>\u00a0providing design consulting for academic research equipment, search and rescue systems for first responders and military applications. Since 2011 Dr. Komsuoglu has been serving as an active member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/el\/intelligent-systems-division-73500\/response-robots\">DHS-NIST-ASTM Standard Robot Test Methods<\/a>\u00a0committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and CEO Dr. Komsuoglu is a robotics expert and entrepreneur with over 19 years of research, development and start-up experience. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. on systems control with robotics emphasis from the University of Michigan and continued his\u00a0early academic career\u00a0at the\u00a0GRASP Lab,\u00a0University of Pennsylvania\u00a0as a research fellow. Focusing on biologically inspired high-performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions\/321"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robolit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}