News from RACLAB

Our members Halil İbrahim Köse and Harun Günay received an Honorable Mention – Most Creative Award at the "Accessible and Connected Türkiye 2053" R&D Competition of Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure with their project "An Autonomous AI-based Guardian Protecting the Blue Homeland." We warmly congratulate our teammates for making us proud and wish them continued success in many more innovative projects.🎉 (link)

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)

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)

At TEKNOFEST 2025 Robotaxi Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition, our team RACLAB SİGUN (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)

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)

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)

At TEKNO-SEL 2025 (Selçuk University Technology Festival), our students Şahan Mirza Özdemir, Elif Su İbiş, and Seher Tiryaki won Second Place in the Free Project Category! 🎉 (link)

Our members Halil İbrahim Köse and Eren Berk Saç received an Honorable Mention at the "Accessible and Connected Türkiye 2053" R&D Competition (Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure) with their project "Hava Ray Devriyesi" (Air Rail Patrol). Congratulations! 🎉

New paper accepted: "A Unified Monocular Vision-Based Driving Model for Autonomous Vehicles with Multi-Task Capabilities" by Salim Azak, Fırat Bozkaya, Şükrücan Tığlıoğlu, Abdullah Yusefi, Akif DURDU. Published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (SCI-E, WOS Q1, Scopus Q1), Vol. 10, Issue 9, Sep. 2025.

New paper published: "Consensus-based Virtual Leader Tracking Swarm Algorithm with GDRRT*-PSO for Path-Planning of Multiple UAVs" by Berat YILDIZ, Muhammet Fatih Aslan, Akif DURDU, Ahmet Kayabaşı. Published in Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 88, Article 101612 (SCI-E).

At TEKNOFEST 2023, RACLAB teams achieved multiple awards:

• RACLAB ARES — "Most Original Design" Award in Agricultural UAV Category
• RACLAB İHA — Performance Award in Rotary-Wing UAV Category
• RACLAB MERKÜT — Performance Award in Fixed-Wing UAV Category
• RACLAB SİGUN — Third Place in Robotaxi Performance Ranking

At TEKNOFEST 2022, RACLAB teams achieved multiple awards:

• RACLAB SİGUN — "Most Original Software" Award + 1st in Performance Ranking in Robotaxi Category
• RACLAB Swarm İHA — "Best Team Spirit" Award in Swarm UAV Category
• RACLAB — 4th Place in Smart Transportation Category

At TÜBİTAK 2242 University Students Research Project Competition, our students won Second Place in Defense/Space/Aviation category with the project "Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Control Card".

At TEKNOFEST 2021:

• RACLAB — 2nd Place in Smart Transportation Competition
• RACLAB SİGUN — "Most Original Software" Award in Robotaxi Category (first participation)

At TÜBİTAK 2242, our team received the "Social Innovation Incentive Award" for the project "AI-Powered Smart Cleaning Robot."

RACLAB Tugberk won First Place (Champion) at 17th ODTÜ Robot Days — Autonomous UAV & Image Processing Category. Also, RACLAB achieved 3rd Place in Smart Transportation at TEKNOFEST 2020.

A historic year for RACLAB:

• 🏆 TEKNOFEST 2019 — National Champion in Rotary-Wing UAV Category (RACLAB Aybars)
• 🏆 OpenZeka MARC 2019 — University Category Champion (highest score)
• 🌍 AUVSI SUAS 2019 (USA) — 11th Place out of 67 international teams, Maryland
• 🥈 16th ODTÜ Robot Days — 2nd Place in Innovation Category

RACLAB participated in its first international competition:

• 🌍 AUVSI SUAS 2018 (USA) — 20th Place out of 70 international teams (first international participation)
• 🥈 TEKNOFEST 2018 — 2nd Place Rotary Wing (S-Quad) + 3rd Place Rotary Wing (S-Air)
• 🥈 15th ODTÜ Robot Days 2018 — 2nd Place in Innovation Category

RACLAB's early competition milestones:

• 🥉 Yıldız Savaşları 2016 — 3rd Place, Free Category ("Yardımsever Alışveriş Robotu")
• 🥉 13th ODTÜ Robot Days 2016 — 3rd Place + Special Jury Award (Mine Detection Robot)
• 🥈 TÜBİTAK UAV Competition 2017 — 2nd Place, Rotary Wing (S-Air team)