Faculty members of the Aviation Institute shared the outcomes of their various projects and thesis studies at the RAST’23 event in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Aviation Institute faculty members demonstrated their commitment to advancing aerospace technologies as they actively participated in the "Recent Advances in Air and Space Technologies" (RAST’23) conference. This biennial event, organized at the international level by the National Defense University, Air Force Academy, provides an important platform for scholars and experts to share insights and discoveries. Held at the National Defense University in Istanbul, Türkiye, the conference witnessed the exchange of research results from the Aviation Institute's faculty members. Their projects and supervised theses, reflecting the latest advances in the field, contributed to the global discourse on aerospace technologies. The following is a comprehensive list of publications presented by the Aviation Institute faculty during the RAST’23 conference:

• Barış Yılmaz, Elif Akar, Eyüphan Küçükkalfa, Kaan Yıldız, “Direct Foaming Approach for Reinforcing Re-entrant Auxetic Structures for Superior Compressive Properties and Energy Absorption”.

• Merve Karabal, Alptekin Yıldız, “Creep Modeling of 3D Printed Carbon Black Reinforced Polyetherimide Composites”.
  

• Muhammed Murat Özbek, Emre Koyuncu. “Missile Evasion Maneuver Generation with Model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning”.

• Ramazan Yeniçeri, Emre Koyuncu, Serkan Şenel, Mehmet Zeki Paşaoğlu, Ahmet Talha Çetin, İpek Ösken, Onur Sevimli, Gürkan Çetin, Bariş Yalçin, Mert İrez, Taha Taner Inal, Mehmet Altan Toksöz, “A Multi-drone System for Formation Flight and Solo Attack”.