Yıldız Technical University Lagari Team placed 8^th in Total Scores in the 16^th AUVSI SUAS 2018 Competition (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition) in Maryland, the USA, which was sponsored by the US Army, Google, BAE Systems, MathWorks, etc.

Lagari Team, who beat the teams of Institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, UPenn, US Naval Academy, shot the target at 60 meters with 1 meter precision in the category of target shooting at autonomous flight, which is the best score in the history of the competition. In flight missions such as autonomous flight, target shooting, object identification and classification, Lagari Team placed 5^th and placed 8^th in the reporting and presentation missions among the 69 teams.

Lagari Team, who is sponsored by Yıldız Technical University, YTU TechnoPark, The Under secretariat for Defense Industries of the Republic of Turkey, TAI, Baykar Makina, T3 Foundation, Civil ve Doğtaş, is composed of the 8 sophomores, juniors and seniors of the Mechatronics Department of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and 1 junior of the Control and Automation Engineering Deparment of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The fixed wing UAV design and production work was made in YTU Mechatronics Engineering Laboratories and Baykar Makina Workshops by the Lagari Team who was mentored by Dr. Ahmet KIRLI, who is a faculty member of the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, and whose UAV was piloted by Mehmet ÖZTEKİN. 

Team Members:

Tolgahan AKBULUT (Team Leader – Senior, The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

Berk KAYNAK (Mechanical Team Leader – The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

Yunus AS (Control and Autonomous Flight Team Leader – The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

Faruk Fazlı OKUMUŞ (Junior, The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

Mert ÇELİKOL  (Junior, The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

Mücteba UZUNOĞLU  (Junior, The Department of Control and Automation Engineering)

Abdurrahim AYAZ  (Sophomore, The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

İsmet Can HASANÇEBİ  (Sophomore, The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

Onur SEVİĞ (Sophomore, The Department of Mechatronics Engineering)

I congratulate all the shareholders who contributed to the achievement of Our Team and wish them prolonging success.

Prof. Dr. Bahri ŞAHİN

Rector