Six students, continuing their education at a secondary school in the district, began conducting scientific research in January this year with the encouragement of industrial automation technologies teacher Emre Akbulut and the support of the school administration.
The “Akva team”, consisting of students from the software, design, automation and mechatronics departments, whose membership increased to 12 over time, manufactured a small underwater vehicle after seven months of work, using predominantly domestic resources. The students called the vehicle they also designed “Akva”.
Students who participated in TEKNOFEST this year with a vehicle that can perform movements such as up, down, forward, backward, diving, climbing and moving on the water surface, but were eliminated in the semifinals, intensified their work on research and development.
The test drive of the vehicle, whose color and shape recognition, torpedo (guided munitions used to destroy surface and underwater targets moving underwater), diving and climbing functions have been improved, was carried out in the swimming pool of Naim Süleymanoğlu Sports Complex.
Students who will take part in the competition in 2025 in the “Unmanned Underwater Systems” category of TEKNOFEST with “Akva”, which has successfully passed the test phase underwater with a GoPro, are aiming for first place.
Project coordinator Emre Akbulut said they are continuing their research and development studies on the vehicle, which works with a 35-meter-long cable.
Stating that the testing is progressing flawlessly, Akbulut said: “We chose this project to increase young people's interest in technology. We started this project to both test our own knowledge and contribute to our country. We're thinking about developing it further.” We can make it so it's wirelessly autonomous.” “We're working on it,” he said.
Akbulut stated that the team's students even worked on this vehicle during the summer vacation.
Akbulut explained that they took part in the competition in the “Unmanned Underwater Systems” category of TEKNOFEST:
“We were eliminated in the semi-finals. In the video phase, our vehicle had to move forward and backward, up and down and carry out torpedo launches. There was no problem with our up and down, back and forth movements, but the torpedo launch mission didn't go the way we wanted. Our goal is to pass this phase next year and qualify for the final.
Akbulut added that the vehicle was built with 90 percent domestic resources.
“We want to be a finalist at TEKNOFEST”
Batınay Büyükarazlı, 11th grade student of Automation Department and team captain, also stated that “Akva” successfully passed most of the rules in the TEKNOFEST underwater competition category during the test drives.
Stating that the reservoir does not absorb water and the engines are working properly, Büyükarazlı said, “Now we will focus on the tasks and try to complete them. We want to be a finalist at TEKNOFEST. “We want to successfully float our vehicle in the water by completing all tasks,” he said.
Sahra Nur Pehlivan, a Grade 11 student at the Faculty of Design, said they overcame the setbacks during the construction phase of the vehicle with the help of their teammates and teachers.
Pehlivan said: “He successfully completed his task. We just had some problems with the up and down movements because the weight underneath was light. Otherwise we had no problems,” he said.
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