ITU Albatros UAV Team
ITU Albatros is an Istanbul Technical University undergraduate UAV project team founded in 2018. Students develop mechanical and avionics subsystems alongside autonomous-flight and aerial-observation software. Its university profile traces Tulpar’s 2018 IMechE UAS Challenge overall championship, Safety and Airworthiness award and best Flight Readiness Review. The Tomris project combined a fixed-wing carrier with a deployed rotary-wing aircraft to locate casualties and deliver aid, earning third place in TEKNOFEST’s 2020 free-mission UAV competition and an encouragement award in 2022. Its Akay aircraft received the 2023 TEKNOFEST combat-UAV Best Design award. University leadership also documented Albatros competing at the 2026 international UAV event in Malatya.
Identity
- Field
- Autonomous UAVs, aerostructures, avionics, flight software, aerial observation and search-and-rescue payloads
- Name
- ITU Albatros UAV Team
- Region
- ASIA
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- ITU Albatros is an Istanbul Technical University undergraduate UAV project team founded in 2018. Students develop mechanical and avionics subsystems alongside autonomous-flight and aerial-observation software. Its university profile traces Tulpar’s 2018 IMechE UAS Challenge overall championship, Safety and Airworthiness award and best Flight Readiness Review. The Tomris project combined a fixed-wing carrier with a deployed rotary-wing aircraft to locate casualties and deliver aid, earning third place in TEKNOFEST’s 2020 free-mission UAV competition and an encouragement award in 2022. Its Akay aircraft received the 2023 TEKNOFEST combat-UAV Best Design award. University leadership also documented Albatros competing at the 2026 international UAV event in Malatya.
- Latitude
- 41.101505986380275
- Location
- Longitude
- 29.021750550883237
- University
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- Creation Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:43:05 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:43:05 UTC