One of the IEEE IKU Club TEKNOFEST teams, IKU Red Wings won the right to compete in the final for the second time. The team, which has represented our university as a finalist at TEKNOFEST 2021, will fiercely compete for the leading degrees this year.
The aim of the team is to bring forth technological advancements that not only reflect the advance technology of today but also lead the technology to the future. To fulfill this aim, they participated in TEKNOFEST 2021 in the "Fighting UAV Rotary Wing" category. Although it was their first time partaking in the competition, they passed the reporting and video stages with great success. This year, they are competing in the "Fixed Wing" category of the same competition. Completing the Preliminary Design Report with a score of 82.50/100 and the Critical Design Report with a high score of 94.5/100, they won the right to compete in the final for the second time. Our team, which has great anticipations for finishing this year’s competition in a leading degree, continues to work day and night with the same enthusiasm and ambition of the first day the team was established.
The UAV, which they named "HÜMA", was developed to perform the two main missions of the competition, "Combating UAV" and "Kamikaze UAV". In the "Combating UAV" mission, the UAV must detect rival UAV targets in case of dog fight and successfully hit the targets virtually, while at the same time trying to avoid possible deadlocks by rival UAVs. In the "Kamikaze UAV" mission, the UAV must autonomously detect ground targets positioned on the track from different standpoints. In order to be successful, the UAV must maneuver successfully taking into account the distance between the target and the UAV. The members of the team, whose testing flights have proven to be successful, is made up of students from the Department of Computer Engineering and Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, where they carry out multidisciplinary studies.
The Team members are as follows:
Ezgi Topcu (Team Captain) – Electrical and Electronics Engineering 3rd Year Student
Emin Kaan Güreşçi - Electrical and Electronics Engineering 3rd Year Student
Umut Kaya - Electrical and Electronics Engineering 3rd Year Student
Bahri Berkant İçöz - Electrical and Electronics Engineering 3rd Year Student
Okan Kartbaş - Electrical and Electronics Engineering 4th Year Student
Giray Karadeniz - Electrical and Electronics Engineering Year 1 Student
Mahmut Özer Gözü Kırmızı – 1st Year Computer Engineering Student
Ege Kıran - Computer Engineering Year 1 Student
