11th grade students Nezir Bozkurt (16), Deniz Özer (16), Mustafa Turan Yalçın (16), Abdulsamet Ceylan (16) and 10th grade student Burak from Necmettin Erbakan Technology Science Social Sciences Anatolian Imam Hatip High School in Karabağlar district. Çalgın (15), under the consultancy of Information Technologies Teacher Mert Yalçın, designed an ‘autonomous robotic bird’ that flaps its wings like a bird to be used in military intelligence.
After 8 months of coding and assembly work, the team managed to fly the autonomous robotic bird.
The project was named after Abbas Ibn Firnas, a scholar who lived during the Umayyad period and tried to fly with wings for the first time in history.
Firnas Project came first in Turkey in the field of R&D and project applications in the ‘Successful Examples Exhibition’ competition of the Ministry of National Education.
LOW AND QUIET WORKING
Giving information about the project, Information Technologies Teacher and Project Consultant Mert Yalçın said, “We designed the project to be used with our students to provide intelligence for military purposes. Unmanned aerial vehicles may have problems while taking images for intelligence purposes. Terrorists can see the unmanned aerial vehicles. When they see these vehicles, they will be able to wait until military units go there.” Terrorists may have moved places for as long as possible. Since our vehicle resembles a bird, it is perceived as a bird when viewed from below, thanks to its wing flapping movement. Additionally, our bird does not have a propeller. Therefore, it does not make any sound. In addition, the drone has to go to a high altitude so that it cannot be detected due to the sound it makes due to its propeller. For this reason, less quality images are taken. Our bird can take better images because it can fly unnoticed at a lower altitude. It is important that it is silent, camouflaged, can move by gliding, and can turn suddenly. It has additional features such as not being noticed and being able to take images from low altitude. . Only one company in the world has an autonomous bird project. “There is no such autonomous work in Turkey,” he said.
STUDENTS ARE HAPPY
Mustafa Turan Yalçın, one of the students, said, “As a team, we were very excited at every stage of the project. We did such a project for the first time among high schools. We had to be devoted. The research process took a long time.”
Abdulsamet Ceylan said, “It was an 8-month process. It was a very long process, day and night. We did a lot of R&D work. We had to spare our private time. I can say that it was worth it. It is truly a great happiness to see our project fly. It is worth the effort you put in. We see the future of the project clearly. ” he said.
Abdullah Mesut Ürünoğlu, the principal of the high school, said, “We are preparing our students to contribute to both the academic future and technological infrastructure with projects. We are also preparing our children for many competitions, especially TÜBİTAK.” (DHA)
