Cyber Airspace

Cyber Airspace involves a 10x7x6m motion capture area with 8 cameras enabling to collect precise position and attitude information at 100-1000 Hz from multiple objects such as drones, sensor suits including human. Cyber Airspace allow us to desing and test artificial intelligence, motion planning and control algorithms.

Avionics Lab.

Avionics Lab is a multipurpose electronics lab that allows us to design, build and prototype UAV, communication links, and ground station avionics. The lab involves various electronic workbenches, solder stations, instrumentation devices in addition to a PCB manufacturing device.

UAV Integration and Mechanical Design Lab.

UAV Integration and Mechanical Design Lab allow us to design and build UAV mechanical subsystems and mechanisms and integrate the avionics to be ready to fly. In addition to various manufacturing and maintenance tools, the lab involves 3D printers enabling rapid prototyping and composite production set-ups.

Composites and Additive Manufacturing Lab

Composite Manufacturing Lab equipped with all the components needed to engineer composites from part design; analysis to final production. Our multi-disciplinary team mainly works on laminated and sandwich polymer matrix composite structures using several methods and materials listed as: Hand lay-up, Vacuum infusion, Hot press (up to 500 °C, 30 tons and 0.5 m2 active plate area), Heatable plate under vacuum, Autoclave (up to 300 °C and 7 bars) and 3D printers.

Chemical Process Lab

Now with support of faculty laboratories, we are able to serve polymer synthesis, electrospinning, electrospraying and polymer film coating. We have fully equipped with the required facilities for for fabrication of advanced technology materials. The instruments in the chemistry lab is listed as: Magnetic stirrers, Analytical balances, Horn sonicator, Homogenizator, Spin coating and Dip coating.

Nanomaterial Synthesis Lab

Synthesis and optimization of various nanomaterials (e.g: C - based and BN –based nanostructures) has been conducted in nanomaterial synthesis laboratory. Our team has modified nanomaterials in this laboratory are to provide required nanocomponents such as reinforcements for nanocomposites, catalysts for filtration, fabrication of the micro – nano fluidic devices.

Advanced Characterization Lab

Advanced Characterization Laboratory is the latest addition to our center equipped with the high-tech and most advanced characterization instruments to achieve accurate characterizations of innovative materials developed in our labs. The characterization instruments found in our labs are operated by the expert grad students in their fields can be listed as: Universal Testing Machine (AGS-X 50 kN, Shimadzu), Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA 850, TA Instruments), Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA 55, TA Instruments), Rheometer (DHR 2, TA Instruments).

Gumussuyu Wind Tunnel

Gumussuyu Wind Tunnel involves a test room with dimensions (Width x Height x Length) 110 cm x 80 cm x 162 cm enabling 5 m/s < V < 40 m/s speed range tests. The wind tunnel allow us to test small and nano size UAVs and drones or down-scale protypes  of air transport vehicles.

Smart Air Transportation and AI Office

This is a graduate student office of İTÜ ARC in UUBF Building (ITU Aero-Astro Faculty) curently performing various research and industrial artificial intelligence, air traffic management and smart air transportation projects such as COPTRA (H2020), START (H2020), AI-RADAD (Industry), Big-Data based Preventive Airline Maintenance (Industry). The office involves 20 study cubics, a meeting room and various computational platforms.

İTÜ Aerospace Research Center

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İTÜ Havacılık ve Uzay Tek. Uyg. Ar. Merkezi, Maslak, İstanbul

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