Let's get to know our rotary wing vehicle, ATLAS, which is the first vehicle designed from scratch by the ATLAS unmanned aerial vehicle team this year. Our vehicle ATLAS represented our country in the 2022 AUVSI SUAS competition held in the USA, leaving behind the well-established schools and completed the comptetion at 20th place. Our UAV ATLAS also competed in the TEKNOFEST International Free Duty category held in Turkey. Our vehicle has been designed as an emergency drone for competition duty. ATLAS has the potential to drop 3 different first-aid kits at the same time. A mobile application has been developed by our team members so that the emergency drone can be used more easily by users. Our vehicle, won 2nd prize award and trophy in the competition, thanks to outstanding success of our team. We would like to thank the ATLAS team, who always try to add more to what they have done in the flight tests and extremely hard-works organized in this category.
The drone, known by everyone as the drone, is a type of aircraft that can be remotely controlled. It is the aircraft indirectly controlled by the pilot at long ranges through the wireless communication modules it contains. The purpose of use varies according to where it is used. For example; it can undertake tasks such as fire extinguishers, bomb disposal vehicles etc. The purpose of use in our country is mostly the field of defense industry. The aim of UAV in our school is to ensure the development of students in the project in the fields of communication, electronic-hardware and software, static and fluid mechanics. It is also one of the biggest projects our IEEE club has undertaken in order to carry on such projects and transfer the learned argen to the next generation of students. The goal is not only to increase technical knowledge, but also to contribute to the personal development of the students, to provide a network (engineers and other employees involved in jobs related to the project), to participate in social events and competitions that are organized in our home country and/or abroad, and to produce original projects. Due to the purpose of the project, we aim to produce the project originally by working day and night with our teammates, without copying the UAV internal and external systems made by students or citizens in our country. In this context, we aim to provide technical support for the project carried out by the teachers at our school or the network we provide. The project aims to fly the intended UAV in the desired way. Features such as image processing, full autonomous flight etc. will be added with the R&D studies that will be carried out later. In other words, as it is understood from here, this is not just a year-long project that appeals to a small community, but a comprehensive system to work on for many years.