Okkes Emre Savas
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2
Total Citations
13
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About
Okkes Emre Savas is a leading researcher in autonomous space robotics, specializing in on-board planning and goal-oriented control for planetary and orbital missions. His work is central to advancing the autonomy of future space robots, enabling them to operate with minimal human intervention in challenging environments. Savas is the principal architect of the **ERGO (European Robotic Goal-Oriented Autonomous Controller)** framework, a key project under the PERASPERA SRC initiative. This framework, detailed in his most-cited paper (10 citations, 2018), is designed to support high-level autonomy for missions like ExoMars and Mars 2020. He further advanced the field by pioneering the use of **Temporal PDDL** for on-board planning, addressing the critical challenge of limited computational power on radiation-hardened hardware (2019, 3 citations). His contributions directly tackle the need for persistent autonomy in ambitious space missions, integrating planning with external functions. Savas’s work is foundational for the next generation of self-sufficient space robots, making him a key figure in the future of robotic space exploration.
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- 1The ERGO Framework and its Use in Planetary/Orbital Scenarios10 citations · 2018
- 2On-board Planning for Robotic Space Missions using Temporal PDDL3 citations · 2019