17-21 September 2025
At the TEKNOFEST 2025 Digital Technologies in Industry Competition, our team RACLAB FAAL (Mahmut Sami Güvenç (Team Captain), Mirza Şahan Özdemir, Elif Su İbiş, Seher Tiryaki, Meryem Derin, Furkan Yeşildağ, Enes İşcan, and Ayşegül Börekçi) achieved Third Place in Türkiye in the Advanced Category at the competitions organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Technology! 💪⚙️🎉 (link)
17-21 September 2025
At the TEKNOFEST 2025 International UAV Competition, our team RACLAB TULPARS (Sudenaz Erdoğan (Team Captain), Asude Nur Demir, Eren Berk Saç, Hüseyin Yiğit Bağcı, and Yusuf Sifil) achieved “Third Place” in Türkiye in the Free Category and also received the “Advisor Third Place” award in the competitions organized in collaboration with TÜBİTAK! 💪🚁🎉 (link)
17-21 September 2025
At TEKNOFEST 2025 Robotaxi Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition, our team RACLAB SIGUN (Burak Özsoy (Team Captain), Bahtiyar Erener Kurt, Hasan Altuğ, Osman Melih Kocaoğlu, Recep Mahmut Gündüz, Şevval Eymen Nergiz, Fatmanur Çınar, and Enes Kurt) achieved “Second Place” in Türkiye and was also awarded the “Most Original Software” prize at the competitions held in Bilişim Vadisi! 💪🚗🎉 (link)
17-21 September 2025
At TEKNOFEST 2025 Unmanned Underwater Systems Competition, our team RACLAB NOVA (Hatice Kübra İLHAN (Team Captain), Abdurrahman İnce, Beyza Nur YAĞCI, Feyza İnal, Furkan ERANIL, Gizem Ülker, Mevlüt Burak Dağlı, Mustafa Bedir Sarıtosun, Feyza Baltürk, and Ahmet Selim İlhan) reached the top of the podium! 🏆 On top of that, we were also honored with the “Best Team Spirit” award! 💪🎉 (link)
30 August 2025
At the TEKNOFEST 2025 Unmanned Surface Vehicle Competition, our team RACLAB EZEL — Altuğ Köker (Team Captain), Ahmet Berk Çetiner, Esra Küçük, Eyüp Balcı, Halil İbrahim Köse, Harun Günay, Nursima Uzun, Tolga Işık, and Zehra Akış — placed seventh in the performance ranking at the events held in TEKNOFEST Mavi Vatan, Istanbul.🎉 (link)
29 August 2025
At the TEKNOFEST 2025 Unmanned Underwater Systems Competition, our team RACLAB NOVA — Hatice Kübra İlhan (Team Captain), Abdurrahman İnce, Beyza Nur Yağcı, Feyza İnal, Furkan Eranıl, Gizem Ülker, Mevlüt Burak Dağlı, Mustafa Bedir Sarıtosun, Feyza Baltürk, and Ahmet Selim İlhan — won the “Best Team Spirit” award at the events held in TEKNOFEST Mavi Vatan, Istanbul.🎉 (link)
13 August 2025
At TEKNOFEST 2025’s Robotaxi Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition, our team RACLAB SIGUN — Burak Özsoy (Team Captain), Bahtiyar Erener Kurt, Hasan Altuğ, Osman Melih Kocaoğlu, Recep Mahmut Gündüz, Şevval Eymen Nergiz, Fatmanur Çınar, and Enes Kurt — won the “Most Original Software” award at the events held in Informatics Valley (Bilişim Vadisi)🎉 (link)
16 May 2025
At the 2025 TEKNO-SEL Technology and Robotics Competition, our team RACLAB FAAL (Şahan Mirza Özdemir, Elif Su İbiş, Seher Tiryaki, Mahmut Sami Güvenç, Furkan Yeşildağ, Efe Metin Atabey, Enes İşcan) won the Second Place Award in the Open Project Category. Congratulations to our team, and we wish them continued success in future innovative projects.🎉 (link)
16 April 2025
Our members Halil İbrahim Köse and Eren Berk Saç received an Honorable Mention with their project “Air Rail Patrol” at the “Ulaşan ve Erişen Türkiye 2053” Inter-University R&D Idea Competition organized by UDHAM under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Türkiye. We warmly congratulate our teammates for making us proud and wish them continued success in many more innovative projects.🎉 (link)
13 June 2024
Dr. Berat Yıldız successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Intelligent Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Swarms.”. Congratulations on this impressive achievement! 🎉
20 March 2024
Dr. Abdullah Yusefi has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Sensor Fusion and Visual-Based Localization in Autonomous Systems.” Congratulations on this outstanding achievement! 🎉
14 February 2024
Dr. Salim Azak successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Deep Learning-Based Solutions for Autonomous Driving.” Congratulations and best wishes for continued success! 🎉
5 December 2023
Technical Visit. As part of our technical visit to HAVELSAN, we attentively followed the project presentations delivered by the company representatives. Additionally, we shared our own projects and received valuable feedback. 🌟
30 November 2023
During the Türkiye Entrepreneurial Meetings, held under the auspices of the Turkish Presidency, the 10th GİV Entrepreneurship Awards ceremony took place. Our team, RACLAB, proudly received the “University Entrepreneurship Club Award” alongside our advisor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif DURDU. 🚀
30 September 2023
Our team members Mevlüt Öner, Ahmet Şahin were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 B (as 2 projects) scholarships.
14 September 2023
Our members participated to 24th Automatic Control National Meeting hosted by Istanbul Technical University (TOK 2023).
1 May 2023
Our teams received five awards TEKNOFEST’23. (link)
20 March 2023
Our team members Abdullah Paşa, Enes Sırmacı, Taha Yusuf Sarı were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A and B (as 2 projects) scholarships.
15 February 2023
Nevzat Bol defended his M.Sc. thesis successfully. Congratulations!.. 🎉
19 November 2022
Our team members Mesut TUNÇER, Mustafa Yasin Akmaz, Okan Kazancı and Mahmut Sami Güvenç were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A and B (as 2 projects) scholarships.
26 October 2022
Ahmet Furkan Büyükkelek defended his M.Sc. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
15 September 2022
Our members participated to 23th Automatic Control National Meeting hosted by Fırat University (TOK 2023).
1 September 2022
Our teams received five awards TEKNOFEST’22. (link)
26 May 2022
Muhammet Fatih Aslan defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
20 May 2022
Ömer Furkan Gülbaş Bilal Habeş Akçam HÜSEYİN İPEKÇİ, Sümeyye Çubuk, Musa Şen, zuhal hançer, Özcan Koşar, İrfan SAMUR Dilara Kurt, Mustafa Burak Dinç, Metehan Aslanbaş, İsmail Eren AYHAN Ramazan Erdoğmuş, Furkan AGAC Ahmet Bilal Karakuş, Doğukan GÜVEN, Murat CEREN, Halil Açıkgöz, Muhammet Halis Tekin, Mehmet Reha Koçak Ömer Akdoğan Emir Tatlısu, Emirhan Ayık Kağan Kaya were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A and B (as 12 projects) scholarships.
12–13 May 2022
Our project teams were attended to the KTMOPP 2022. “Autonomous Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” İrfan SAMUR and Dilara Kurt were the Second Place Winner at the category of Defense Industry, Robotics and Space Technologies. “Autonomous Cleaning Robot” Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya, Metehan Aslanbaş and Mustafa Ünal were the Second Place Winner at the category of Efficiency and Industrial Applications. “Vehicle Identification System at Intersections” Esin Uysal and Kevser Düzyol were Third Place Winner at the category of Information and Communication Technologies.
18–19 March 2022
Our RACLAB AYBARS team was participated in the competition of the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at 18’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. İrfan Samur, Dilara Kurt, Doğukan Güven, Kevser Düzyol, Murat Ceren, Metehan Aslanbaş and Musa Şen were the Third Place Winner at the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at the competition. Our RACLAB ASPAR team (Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya,Metehan Aslanbaş) was Mansion Winner at the category of Innovation at the competition.
15 November 2021
TUBITAK President Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal visited our RACLAB laboratory. (link)
8 November 2021
Our team members Furkan Ağaç, Kevser Düzyol and Mahmut Karaaslan were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A (as 2 projects) scholarships (link)
26 September 2021
Our team (RACLAB Intelligent Traffic Control Team) was The Second Place Winner at “Intelligent Transportation-TEKNOFEST’21” and Our other team (RACLAB Sigun) received “The Most Original Software Award” at “Autonomous Taxi-TEKNOFEST’21” in İstanbul. (link)
3 September 2021
Our team members Furkan Enes Koçak, Ahmet Bilal Karakuş, Kevser Düzyol, Gamze Öztürk and Mahmut Karaaslan were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 B (as 2 projects) scholarships (link)
1 September 2021
Our team members Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya, Metehan Aslanbaş were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2242 Project Competition. (link)
9 July 2021
Seyit Alperen Çeltek defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
25 June 2021
Muzamil Eltejani Mohammed Ali defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
2 February 2021
Our team members Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya, Metehan Aslanbaş, Hüseyin ÇELİK, Şevval Çelik and Mert Dağadası were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 B (as 3 projects) scholarships. (link)
11 November 2020
Our team member Şevval Çelik was are awarded TUSAS LIFT UP scholarships. (link)
27 September 2020
Our team (RACLAB Intelligent Traffic Control Team) was The Third Place Winner at “Intelligent Transportation-TEKNOFEST” in Gaziantep. (link)
21 August 2020
Our team members İrfan Samur, Yasin Türkmenoğlu, Gökhan Öztürk, Muhammed Nazmi Öz, Çağla Arslantaş, Büşra Özdeş, Ercan Ataner were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A (as 3 projects) scholarships. (link)
24 February 2020
Our RACLAB Tugberk team was participated in the competition of the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at 17’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. Mert Dagadasi, Ahmet Furkan Buyukkelek and Sevval Celik were the First Place Winner at the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at the competition.
19 December 2019
Ahmet Murat ERTURAN defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
22 September 2019
Our team (RACLAB AYBARS) was The First Place Winner at “International UAV TURKEY Competition-TEKNOFEST” in İstanbul. The other RACLAB team was the Third Place Winner at the Disaster Management Category of “the Technology for the Benefit of Humanity Competition-TEKNOFEST”.
22 July 2019
Suleyman DEMIR, Taha KEVSER and M.Celalettin ERGENE defended their M.S. thesis’s successfully. Congratulations!..
4 July 2019
Aykut TAHTIRVANCI defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
1 July 2019
M.Esat DERE defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
26 June 2019
Berat YILDIZ defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
24 June 2019
Mehmet KORKMAZ defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
17–19 June 2019
We participated in the 23rd International Conference ELECTRONICS 2020 in Palanga, Lithuania.
13–16 June 2019
We were at the AUVSI SUAS Competition. We were eleventh among the sixty-eight teams in the mission category. Congratulations!..
23–24 May 2019
Our project teams were attended to the KTMOPP 2019. Muhammet Harun Demir, Mehmet Emre Arıtürk, Ahmed Mohamed Alnazeer Ali, Osman Karagulle, Yunus Emre Dursun, Hilal Uymaz and Ece Yalcin had grades as the First Place Winner and Second Place Winner.
17 May 2019
Sinan ILGEN defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
24 April 2019
Our autonomous-car team were participated in the mini-autonomous car competition at the Bilkent University.
24 February 2019
Our project teams were participated in the competition of the category of Innovation at 16’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. Erol Öztürk and Metehan Aslanbaş were Third Place Winner at the category of Innovation at the competition.
18 January 2019
Erol Öztürk, Ece Yalçın, Hilal Uymaz and
A.Furkan BÜYÜKKELEK are awarded Tubitak-2209B-scholarships.
12 October 2018
Congratulations!.. Murat Gümüş, who is a member of RAC-LAB, won the first prize in the Machinery Manufacturing and Automotive Category in TÜBİTAK-Primary Areas Project Competition.
23 September 2018
Our teams (S-Air & S-Quad) are Second and Third Place Winners at “International UAV TURKEY Competition-TEKNOFEST” in İstanbul
12 August 2018
Our team (Anka Engineering Team) was attended to “International TÜBİTAK Efficiency Challenge Electric Vehicle” in Kocaeli
22 June 2018
M.Fatih Aslan defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
13–16 June 2018
We were at the AUVSI SUAS Competition. We were twentieth among the sixty-three teams in the mission category. Congratulations!..
10–11 May 2018
Our project teams were attended to the SUMOPP 2018. Nevzat Bol, Erol Öztürk, Mehmet Duramaz , M.İlker Ekmen and Mehmet Şen had grades as the First Place Winner and Second Place Winner.
3 March 2018
Our project teams were participated in the competition of the category of Innovation at 15’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. M. İlker Ekmen, Mehmet Şen and M. Ali Baygın were Second Place Winner at the category of Innovation at the competition.
16 July 2017
Congratulations!..Our team (S-Air) is Second Place Winner at “International UAV TURKEY Competition” in Ankara
26 May 2017
Halil Çetin defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
17–18 May 2017
Our project teams were attended to the SUMOPP 2017.
22 February 2017
Burak Yilmaz defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
7 December 2016
Mehmet Eren Uzbay, Mehmet Orakçı, Yunus Emre Tusun were awarded Tubitak-2209A-scholarships
20 October 2016
Üzeyir İlbay Bozkurt defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
12 October 2016
Our UAV team (Mehmet Orakçı, Mehmet Şen, M.İlker Ekmen) was participated in “International UAV TURKEY Competition” in Gebze/Turkiye.
3 August 2016
Emre Hasan Dursun defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations!..
12–13 May 2016
Our project teams were attended to the SUMOPP. Batuhan F. Özşen, M. Fatih Aslan and M. Mustafa Kelek had grades as Second Place Winner and Third Place Winner.
30 April 2016
Batuhan F. Özşen was awarded Tubitak-2209A-scholarships.
24 April 2016
Our project team was participated in the competition of “SAF-RUN 2016” at the Karabuk University. M. Fatih Aslan and M. Mustafa Kelek were Second Place Winner at the category of Free Style at the competition. The video of this project is in Youtube.
3 April 2016
Our project teams were participated in the competition of “Yıldız Savaslari’16” at the Yildiz Technical University. M. Fatih Aslan and M. Mustafa Kelek were Third Place Winner at the category of Free Style at the competition. The video of this project is in Youtube.
6 March 2016
Batuhan F. Ozsen was Third Place Winner at the category of Free Style at 13’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara.
7 July 2015
M.Fatih Aslan, A.Sezer Karadeniz, Doğan Uğurlu were awarded Tubitak-2209A-scholarships
22–24 December 2014
Oral presentation of Akif Durdu was selected as the best one in the conference of ICOAI 2014.
