Istanbul Gelisim University - Rocket and SİHA by students became finalist in Teknofest

Rocket and SİHA by students became finalist in Teknofest

Students from Istanbul Gelisim University participated in two different categories of the competition in Teknofest organized for the second time this year. While the rocket became the 49th in the Low Altitude Competition, SİHA was in the last 8 finalists.

Aerospace and Technology Festival (Teknofest), organized last year for the first time and bringing together thousands of people who keen on the technology, continues to have the visitor over this year, as well. Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU), took place as a participant in the fair conducted in the Ataturk Airport in September, 17 - 22, the attracted the attention with its flying car. Students attended the fair with a rocket, flying car and Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SİHA) and informed the visitors about the machines.

THEY MADE A ROCKET IN 9 MONTHS

Devrim Karahan, a senior in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Istanbul Gelisim University, said: “We joined here as the Gelisim Rocket Team. We prepared the rocket with a team of 6 people in approximately 9 months. We became the 49^th among 570 teams in Teknofest Low Altitude Competition. In this category, we were asked to make a rocket which can reach to 1500 meters. It was expected that the first parachute could open at the summit, the second largest parachute could open at about 580 meters while going down and the rocket could land firmly. And we did.”

THEY BECAME FINALIST IN THE DRONE COMPETITION

Tilbe Korkmaz, a senior in the Department of Computer Engineering, stated that they participated in the Teknofest Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Drone) from the category of Rotary Wing and said: “We conduct various studies in the Technology Transfer Office in our university. When we saw that Teknofest organizes competitions just like the studies we work on and we decided in participating here. Our team has 11 people. Our team became the final 21 ones among about 158 teams. Then we continue to compete as one of the 8 finalists.”

IT DETECTS OTHER DRONES AS ENEMIES

Korkmaz, giving information about what SİHA can do, cited that: “The goal of the competition is to make a drone which is able to take off and land automatically with our 4-wing drone and to detect other drones as enemies and to take an image from it automatically for 10 seconds. We reached this aim. Here our weapon is to detect another drone as an enemy.”