November, 2023 - September, 2024
2024 Teknofest International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Competition
Team IMU HAWK from the Field Robotics Laboratory at Istanbul Medeniyet University achieved 3rd place in the Teknofest 2024 International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Competition!
The competition allows flights based on any scientific and technological innovation using various UAV types, including fixed-wing, rotary-wing, hybrid, and flapping-wing, without any specific category or mission restrictions. Team IMU HAWK designed and built a hexa-rotor rotary-wing UAV, capable of autonomously neutralizing intruder drones with a pneumatic gun that fires a net. Due to the mission's real-world applicability, a robust approach, and successful execution on both the mechanical and algorithmic sides resulting in a successful implementation, Team IMU HAWK secured 3rd place.
We extend our thanks to Teknofest and TÜBİTAK for organizing such a remarkable competition. A special thanks to the Maltepe Youth Center, part of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Turkey, and to Ali Ramazan Tak, General Manager of Medeniyet Teknopark, for their support.
Congratulations to the team members: Buğra Ayhan, Şaban Kahraman, Gökhan Altun, Elif Aykırı, Ahmet Hekim, Abdullah Saki, and Kemal Gezen.
November, 2022 - April, 2023
2023 TUBITAK UAV Competition
Team IMU Hawk successfully completed the Teknofest 2023 International Unmanned Aerial Vehicles competition. Team IMU Hawk, which added experience to the previous experiences and competed as a finalist, was entitled to receive the "Performance Award".
Congratulations to the team members: Kübra Yıldız, Ayşenur Yörür, M. Buğra Ayhan, Şaban Kahraman
2021 - 2022
2022 Matlab MiniDrone Competition
Team AERGO achieved third place out of 47 in the 2022 MathWorks Minidrone Competition. In the scope of this competition, the image processing and motion algorithm on the rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) modeled in the Simulink environment was developed using MATLAB programming language.
Congratulations to the team members: Umut Dumandağ, Ferdi Dumandağ!
2020 - 2021
2021 IEEE RAS Turkey RoboFest Competition
Umut Dumandağ and Buğra Büyükarslan secured 1st and 2nd places in the IEEE RAS Turkey Robofest Competition. Image processing and motion planning algorithms were designed to fulfill the tasks given in the competition held in the Gazebo simulation environment.
Congratulations to the members of our laboratory: Umut Dumandağ, Buğra Büyükarslan!
2019 - 2020
2020 Teknofest Swarm UAV Competition
Team IMU from Field Robotics Laboratory at Istanbul Medeniyet University secured 6th place in the Teknofest Swarm UAV Simulation Competition!
During the competition, an autonomous controller was developed for coordinated takeoff and formation control of aerial vehicles in a distributed manner. Also, GPS corruption was also taken into consideration while navigating to a disaster site via formation flight and conduct situation analysis.
Congratulations to our team members: Ali Akdemir and Nisanur İlhan.
2019 - 2020
2020 TUBITAK UAV Competition
Team IMU participated in finals of 2020 TUBITAK UAV Competition rotary wing category and achieved 24rd place among 60 teams in the detailed design report.
Congratulations to our team members: Ferdi Dumandağ, Furkan Sarıyıldız.
