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2025

🏅 UDHAM "Outstanding Contribution in Leadership" Award
Prof. Akif DURDU received the UDHAM (Unmanned Aircraft System Education and Research Platform) "Outstanding Contribution in Leadership" award for his contributions to unmanned systems education and research in Türkiye.
🎖 Award 2025 · UDHAM
🥉 RACLAB FAAL — 3rd Place at TEKNOFEST 2025 (Advanced Category)
RACLAB FAAL team secured third place in the Digital Technologies in Industry competition at TEKNOFEST 2025 in the advanced category, competing against top university teams across Türkiye.
🏆 Competition 2025 · TEKNOFEST · Istanbul Team Page →
🥉 RACLAB TULPARS — 3rd Place at TEKNOFEST 2025 (Free Category)
RACLAB TULPARS (formerly Aybars) achieved third place in the Free Category of the TEKNOFEST 2025 International UAV Competition, showcasing advanced autonomous flight capabilities.
🏆 Competition 2025 · TEKNOFEST · UAV Competition Team Page →
🥈 RACLAB SİGUN — 2nd Place + Most Original Software Award at TEKNOFEST 2025
RACLAB SİGUN achieved second place and won the "Most Original Software" special award in the TEKNOFEST 2025 Robotaxi Passenger Autonomous Vehicle competition, demonstrating innovative AI and sensor fusion solutions.
🏆 Competition 2025 · TEKNOFEST · Robotaxi Team Page →
🏆 RACLAB NOVA — TEKNOFEST 2025 CHAMPION + Best Team Spirit Award!
RACLAB NOVA won first place in the TEKNOFEST 2025 Unmanned Underwater Systems competition AND received the "Best Team Spirit" special award. The team demonstrated exceptional performance in autonomous underwater navigation and mission completion, making this RACLAB's biggest achievement at TEKNOFEST to date.
🏆 Champion 2025 · TEKNOFEST · AUV Competition Team Page →
RACLAB EZEL at TEKNOFEST 2025 Mavi Vatan (USV Competition)
RACLAB EZEL competed in the TEKNOFEST 2025 Mavi Vatan (Blue Homeland) unmanned surface vehicle competition, gaining valuable experience in autonomous maritime systems.
🏆 Competition 2025 · TEKNOFEST Mavi Vatan
RACLAB at TEKNO-SEL 2025 UAV Competition
RACLAB teams participated in the TEKNO-SEL competition organized by Selçuk University, continuing to develop their UAV and autonomous systems capabilities.
🏆 Competition 2025 · TEKNO-SEL · Selçuk University
📄 New SCI-E Publication in Scientific Reports (2025)
RACLAB published "Disturbance-tolerant quadrotor control using a hybrid LQR and super-twisting sliding mode approach" in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) — a top-tier SCI-E indexed journal.
📄 Publication 2025 · Scientific Reports · SCI-E All Publications →
📄 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Paper (2025)
RACLAB's work on "A Unified Monocular Vision-Based Driving Model for Autonomous Vehicles with Multi-Task Capabilities" published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (SCI-E indexed).
📄 Publication 2025 · IEEE TIV · SCI-E All Publications →
📅 RACLAB at ISAS 2025 — 3 Papers Presented in Gaziantep
RACLAB researchers presented three papers at the 9th International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Smart Technologies (ISAS 2025) in Gaziantep, covering ROS 2 controllers, MPC path tracking, and industrial safety detection.
📅 Conference June 2025 · ISAS · Gaziantep
📅 RACLAB at ATEE 2025 — 4 Papers Presented in Bucharest, Romania
RACLAB presented four research papers at the 14th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2025) in Bucharest: LiDAR data processing, autonomous human tracking, self-recovery robots, and RL-based traffic signal control.
📅 Conference October 2025 · ATEE · Bucharest

2024

📄 Swarm and Evolutionary Computation — UAV Swarm Path Planning (2024)
RACLAB published "Consensus-based Virtual Leader Tracking Swarm Algorithm with GDRRT*-PSO for Path-Planning of Multiple UAVs" in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, a highly regarded SCI-E indexed journal.
📄 Publication 2024 · Swarm and Evolutionary Computation · SCI-E
📅 RACLAB Hosts TOK 2024 — 8 Papers at National Automatic Control Conference
The 25th National Conference on Automatic Control (TOK 2024) was held in Konya. RACLAB contributed 8 research papers covering autonomous driving, quadrotor control, UAV tracking, and traffic signal systems — a record for a single conference.
📅 Conference September 2024 · TOK · Konya

2023

🏆 RACLAB ARES — Most Original Design Award at TEKNOFEST 2023
RACLAB ARES won the "Most Original Design" special award at TEKNOFEST 2023 Agricultural UAV competition. The team's innovative approach to agricultural drone design stood out among competing universities.
🎖 Award 2023 · TEKNOFEST · Agricultural UAV
📄 IEEE Access — Efficient Traffic Light Control for Isolated Intersections (2023)
RACLAB published research on intelligent traffic signal control using machine learning in IEEE Access, contributing to the K-TASK adaptive traffic control research line.
📄 Publication 2023 · IEEE Access · SCI-E
📄 Neural Computing and Applications — Deep Learning for Self-Driving (2023)
Two papers published in Neural Computing and Applications covering a new deep learning method for self-driving vehicles using multi-input CNN, and focal loss applications in learning algorithms.
📄 Publication 2023 · Neural Computing and Applications · SCI-E
📅 RACLAB at IEEE ATEE 2023 — Bucharest, Romania
RACLAB presented three papers at IEEE ATEE 2023, including designs for AUV electronic boards, PC communication interfaces for underwater vehicles, and edge detection with deformable CNNs.
📅 Conference 2023 · IEEE ATEE · Bucharest

2022

🏆 RACLAB SİGUN — TEKNOFEST 2022 CHAMPION!
RACLAB SİGUN won first place in the TEKNOFEST 2022 Robotaxi Passenger Autonomous Vehicle competition! The team's deep learning-based perception and autonomous navigation system outperformed all competitors. This was RACLAB's first national robotaxi championship.
🏆 Champion 2022 · TEKNOFEST · Robotaxi Competition Team Page →
📄 IEEE Access — Systematic Literature Review on EKF-Based SLAM (2022)
RACLAB published a comprehensive systematic literature review on Extended Kalman Filter-based SLAM for autonomous navigation in IEEE Access, becoming a key reference in the robotics field.
📄 Publication 2022 · IEEE Access · SCI-E
📄 4 SCI-E Publications in 2022 — Deep Learning & Robotics
RACLAB had a prolific year with 4 SCI-E publications covering CNNs vs Capsule Networks, CNN for pump status classification, medical image segmentation (2D/3D), and EKF-SLAM — across Applied Sciences, Engineering Science and Technology, IEEE Access, and Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
📄 Publications 2022 · Multiple SCI-E Journals View All →

2021

📄 Complexity — Human Action Recognition with Bag of Visual Words (2021)
RACLAB published research on human action recognition for robotic applications using Bag of Visual Words in the journal Complexity (SCI-E indexed, Wiley), combining machine learning with motion analysis for HRI.
📄 Publication 2021 · Complexity · SCI-E
📄 Scientific Reports — YOLO for Plant Recognition (2021)
RACLAB published a novel YOLO approach for recognizing plants with nutrient deficiencies in Scientific Reports (Nature portfolio), expanding RACLAB's AI research into agricultural applications.
📄 Publication 2021 · Scientific Reports · SCI-E
📄 Electronics Letters — Unscented Kalman Filter for Robot Localization (2021)
Published in Electronics Letters (IET, SCI-E) — "Position Estimation of a Robot Using Unscented Kalman Filter" — contributing to RACLAB's core research on autonomous navigation and state estimation.
📄 Publication 2021 · Electronics Letters · SCI-E

2020

📄 Int. J. Advanced Robotic Systems — Real-Time Embedded Object Detection (2020)
RACLAB published research on using state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms for real-time embedded object detection systems in the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (SCI-E), targeting UAV and ground robot applications.
📄 Publication 2020 · IJARS · SCI-E

2019

🌍 AUVSI SUAS 2019 — 11th Place out of 67 Teams (USA)
RACLAB competed in the prestigious AUVSI SUAS (Student Unmanned Aerial Systems) international competition in Maryland, USA, achieving an impressive 11th place out of 67 competing university teams from around the world — a significant improvement from 2018.
🌍 International 2019 · AUVSI SUAS · Maryland, USA
🏆 RACLAB AYBARS — TEKNOFEST 2019 National UAV Champion!
RACLAB's UAV team (Aybars, now TULPARS) won first place at TEKNOFEST 2019 International UAV Competition! This was RACLAB's first major national UAV championship, establishing RACLAB as a top autonomous systems lab in Türkiye.
🏆 Champion 2019 · TEKNOFEST · UAV Competition
📄 IEEE Access — Deep Learning-Based 3D Object Detection (2019)
RACLAB published cutting-edge research on deep learning-based 3D object detection for autonomous systems in IEEE Access, laying the groundwork for future autonomous vehicle perception research.
📄 Publication 2019 · IEEE Access · SCI-E

2016 – 2018

🌍 AUVSI SUAS 2018 — 20th Place out of 70 Teams (USA)
RACLAB's first international competition appearance at the AUVSI SUAS (Student Unmanned Aerial Systems) competition in Maryland, USA. The team finished 20th out of 70 competing university teams in their debut, demonstrating strong capability for a first-time international participant.
🌍 International 2018 · AUVSI SUAS · Maryland, USA
🎉 RACLAB Founded at Konya Technical University (2014)
The Robotics, Automation and Control Laboratory (RACLAB) was established at what was then Selçuk University (now Konya Technical University) by Prof. Akif DURDU. RACLAB started with autonomous UAV research and TÜBİTAK 2209-A student projects, quickly growing into a comprehensive robotics research center.
📢 Milestone 2014 · KTUN · Foundation
📄 Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika — Modified PMSM Control (2017)
RACLAB's early publication "Modified Control of PMSM using Backstepping Design" appeared in Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika (SCI-E indexed), demonstrating the lab's foundational work in control systems before expanding into robotics.
📄 Publication 2017 · Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika · SCI-E

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