# Armed Autonomous Strike UAV

> Teknofest 2022 TÜBİTAK Open-Mission UAV finalist: a hexacopter that runs the entire mission — from takeoff to strike — autonomously. I coded its "brain", the main management unit.

URL: https://furkanisikay.com/projects/silahli-otonom-vurucu-iha/

- Role: Main control unit (the autonomy brain)
- Period: 2022
- Status: Teknofest 2022 · Finalist (9th)
- Awards: Finalist (9th / ~50 teams), Performance Award
- Tech stack: Python, Computer Vision, Gazebo / SITL, MAVLink, Multi-threading

## Highlights

- **9.** among ~50 finalists
- **Ödül** performance award

## Overview

Built for the Teknofest 2022 TÜBİTAK Open-Mission UAV category, this hexacopter performs fully autonomous target detection and strike. I wrote the main management unit — the brain of the UAV — and validated it in simulation.

## Autonomy Chain

The management unit ran autonomous takeoff, flight, target detection, lock, strike and landing as a state machine. Based on detections from the AI unit, it commanded the flight controller over MAVLink to complete the detect-track-strike mission unmanned. I tested every scenario in Gazebo / SITL before going to the field.

## Outputs & Results

We placed 9th among roughly 50 finalist teams and won a performance award, running the full autonomous takeoff-mission-landing loop on a real field (mission and test flights in the videos).

## What I Learned

This is where I learned to manage the gap between simulation and real hardware (latency, sensor noise, safe-abort logic), extending the autonomy architecture I had built for KAPGAN to a more complex mission chain.

## Links

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu9ltaFVZ7E

## To build something like this

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