Completed Projects

• REALTIME DETERMINATION OF MOOD IN CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

Advisor: Prof. Aydın Akan      Students: Eda Yurdakul, Efe Ergun, Taha Sökücü, Can Yıldız

The purpose of this project is to use a camera to track the attention of students in a classroom when the instructor is unable to ascertain the status of the student. To achieve this goal, heart rate, galvanic skin response, and facial expressions were monitored using electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and a camera. The mood of students was captured in real-time and the instructor was informed using colorful LED lights.

• AUTONOMOUS OPTICAL AND INERTIAL NAVIGATION OF A SOLAR-SAIL PROPELLED CUBESAT CLASS SPACECRAFT TARGETING MARS AND ITS MOONS

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Ahmet Orhun Sivaslı, Burak Köse, Ekin Gürhan

In this thesis, autonomous optical spacecraft navigation is put to the test with the help of the Free Wolfram Engine within Jupyter Notebooks. The relationship between the spacecraft-centric ecliptic and celestial coordinates of 55 systematically chosen beacon asteroids of known heliocentric Cartesian coordinates is explored. Such Free/FOSS tools as Stellarium and Astrograv are used, along with the Horizons ephemeris service made available by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Reference: https://zenodo.org/record/8188984.

• PROOF-OF-CONCEPT OF A SOLAR SAIL PROPELLED CUBESAT CLASS SPACECRAFT DIGITAL TWIN TARGETING MARS AND ITS MOONS

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Furkan Arda Tigrik, Berkay Burak Toker

A Digital Twin, which enables real-time monitoring, analysis, and predictive modeling, is a virtual replica of a real system, such as a spacecraft. In this project, we consider the potential of using Scilab/Xcos to simulate the behavior of the subsystems of a spacecraft traveling to Mars by solar sail propulsion, and we provide a proof-of-concept Digital Twin for that spacecraft.

Reference: https://zenodo.org/record/8188279.

• TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND FLIGHT DYNAMICS OF A SOLAR-SAIL PROPELLED CUBESAT CLASS SPACECRAFT TARGETING MARS AND ITS MOONS

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Ceren Zengin, Can Oral, İdris Emre, Tolga Turhan

Solar radiation pressure is a very significant aspect of any space mission, both in terms of perturbations and of propulsion, such as in the case of solar sailing. This study explores the orbital dynamics of a mission to reach the planet Mars with a solar sail-propelled CubeSat spacecraft, mainly by means of the NASA General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT).

Reference: https://zenodo.org/record/8191968.

• DETECTION OF THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION ON ATTENTION/MEMORY USING EEG SIGNALS

Advisor: Prof. Aydın Akan      Students: Alper Arınç, Arda Barlık, Berk Arslan, Doğan Tülü

In this study, the effect of noise on attention and memory is investigated using electroencephalogram (EEG) via signal processing methods and machine learning. Results indicate that increased noise levels have detrimental effects whereas calm environments have positive effects on attention and working memory.

• AUTONOMOUS OPTICAL AND INERTIAL NAVIGATION OF SOLAR-SAIL PROPELLED CUBESAT CLASS SPACECRAFT DURING TARGETING MISSIONS TO ASTEROIDS AND MINOR MOONS

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Yağız Akan, Deniz Lena Demirbağ, Hazal Karaaliler, İlayda Macit

Because of the heavy demand placed of the Deep Space Network, there exists a strong motivation to develop autonomous navigation technologies.  This project aims to explore the use of on-board autonomous optical navigation systems during deep space missions by modeling a synthetic stellar environment by means of the Free Wolfram Engine in the Mathematica language, thus leading to estimates of the spacecraft position.

Reference: https://zenodo.org/record/7032367.

• END-TO-END SOFTWARE MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF SOLAR-SAIL PROPELLED CUBESAT CLASS SPACECRAFT TARGETING ASTEROIDS AND MINOR MOONS

The driving motivation in this study is to simulate the operations phase of a space mission by issuing commands to the spacecraft when necessary. In order to achieve this task, only Free Open Source Software (FOSS) tools were evaluated and tested for use with a CubeSat-class solar sail propelled spacecraft, including, but not limited to, FreeCAD, NASA NOS3, NASA OSK, NASA 42, NASA GMAT, NASA Open MCT, and COSMOS. 

• SPACECRAFT DESIGN AND FLIGHT DYNAMICS OF A SOLAR-SAIL PROPELLED CUBESAT CLASS MINI-CONSTELLATION TARGETING STABLE ORBITS IN THE PLUTO SYSTEM

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Ahmet Furkan Sağır, Ali Batuhan Yaşar, Aslısu Sapmaz, Fatih Cesim Aras

The aim of this project is to study the flight dynamics of a CubeSat-class mini-constellation targeting stable orbits in the Pluto system. The motivation of this project is to increase space mission success rate while decreasing costs by simultaneously using CubeSat constellation and solar sail propulsion concepts. The initial design of the vehicle was a scaled up LightSail 2 concept, whose orbital dynamics is modeled by means of the NASA General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT). 

• FOSS DRIVEN CUBESAT MISSION

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Emre Ergene, Deniz Benil Gunay, Alpcan Kosar, Doğa Karaduman

In this project we aim to design a lunar mission based on a CubeSat simulated by free open source software tools (FOSS). Open source software is coded by communities, so that usage of these tools is more reliable and not dependent on one person or private company. We provide an extensive review of spacecraft subsystems for several past missions, we design the spacecraft with such tools as FreeCAD  and we simulate the mission by using NASA GMAT and Scilab/Xcos.

• ROCKET AND ROCKET STAGE VERTICAL LANDING ON THE MOON

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Ataberk Altan, Furkan Eke, Gence Kaplan

This paper begins with the history of spacecraft vertical landing from the Apollo Lunar Module to the Space X Falcon 9 and, in the future, of Starship. The trajectory of a spacecraft on a translunar trajectory from the Earth to the Moon was propagated to a lunar parking orbit, which marks the initial altitude of the landing phase. The optimal thrust switch-on point for the terminal phase of a spacecraft landing on the Moon was calculated.

• ROTORCRAFT AND FIXED WING PROPELLOR DRONES FOR EXPLORATION IN PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Arif Akkaş, Ayşenur Büyükbayram, Barış Milan

An examination of the parameters and characteristics of the Ingenuity Helicopter, which landed on Mars with the Perseverance Rover on 18 February 2021, was conducted by means of the Xfoil development system. The atmospheric and gravitational environments of Mars and of the Earth were compared in terms of their conduciveness to helicopter flight. This study was extended to consider a proposed helicopter to be deployed in the dense atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.

• DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR GROUND-BASED FAST OBJECT DETECTION AND FOR  INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT AUTONOMOUS OPTICAL NAVIGATION

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Fabrizio Pinto      Students: Arif Akkaş, Ayşenur Büyükbayram, Barış Milan

This project aims to detect satellites moving in the sky in nearly real time and to determine their orbits with accuracy, speed, and lowest possible cost, for the purpose of space awareness. We follow the full workflow, from image acquisition with a DSLR camera, to image calibration (DeepSkyStacker), and finally to image analysis, by means of such tools as Astrometry.net (online), Sextractor (in Linux), ASTAP (Windows), and Astrorecord.

• VOTEMAT: A Blockchain Based Voting System

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Ayça Kumluca Topallı      Students: Egemen Birol, Kerim Tuğşat İskender, Mehmet Semercioğlu, Timur Özkul

In this study, VOTEMAT, a Blockchain based voting system, which covers both traditional paper ballot and electronic voting with additional RSA based security is proposed. An Ethereum private network implementation of Hyperledger Besu is used as the Blockchain infrastructure.

• CCC: Campus Crypto Coin

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Ayça Kumluca Topallı      Students: A.Doruk Acar, Berk Çoban, M.Can Uçar, M.Sadık Yılmaz

In this study, students spend time in the library and earn Blockchain based crypto currency. They can spend their coins in the canteen or cafes in the campus. Blockchain infrastructure, mobile application, and microcontroller design have been prepared and a working prototype has been constructed.

Advisor: Asst. Prof. Kaya Oğuz Students: Orkun Orbay, Milos Mrdakovic, Dzefris Dizdarevic

• APPLIED DEEP LEARNING

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Senem Kumova Metin Students: Maksim Sorokin ve Mete Berk Ergun

• ARES

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. İlker Korkmaz Students: Alp Camcı, Cihangir Cengiz, Doğan Dirik, Fatih Mehmet Akbaba, Emre Çekçi

• BLOCKCHAN

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. İlker Korkmaz Students: Ata Can Kuyumcu, Yüksel Mert Cankuş, Gizem Erdoğan, Ahmet Deniz

• DEMENTIA EXAMINER FOR INDIVIDUALS

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Senem Kumova Metin Students: Maksim Sorokin ve Mete Berk Ergun

• E-COIN

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Türkan Students: Hüseyin Danışmanlıoğlu, Cemil Sucu, Emrecan Kadıoğlu

• DRONE CONTROL SYSTEM USING GESTURE AND SOUND ANALYSIS

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Türkan Students: Alihan Coşkun, Barış Dal, Berk Arslan, Onur Ertek

• GLOCALZONE

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Kaya Oğuz Students: Burak Sönmez, Burak Akkanat, Buğra Oğuzer, Oğuzhan Sarıtaş

• SUPPRESSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE USING ANTI-VIBRATION TECHNIQUE

   

  Advisor: Prof. Murat Aşkar Students: Görkem Arar, Sertaç Kılıçkaya, Aytuğ Güner, Ozan Yüksel, Alper Özkan

• MOTION ANALYSIS WITH KINECT SENSOR

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Mehmet Türkan Students: Çağatay Kırmızıay, Mert Canatan, Mert Asım Karaoğlu, Özer Çevikaslan

• MORE THAN A MENU

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Ufuk Çelikkan Students: Beyza Aydın, Rojda Arslanparçası

• NO MEN LEFT BEHIND

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Gazihan Alankuş Students: Emre Ünal, Tevfik Umut Tayfun

• ONTHREE

   

  Advisor: Prof. Hüseyin Akcan Students: Emre Mutlu, Ahmet Muazim Tunç

• QUEST FOR MENTOR

   

  Advisor: Prof. Yaşar Güneri Şahin Students: Can Aygın, Alperen Saylam, Sami Şen

• SEISMATIC DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FOR HOUSES

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Senem Kumova Metin Students: Baran Açık, Mustafa Serhan Melik, Nur Kölgeli, Nur Uzer, Sertaç Şık, Yağmur Ecem Dağtaş

• SMART GARDEN 

   

  Advisor: Prof. Murat Aşkar Students: Beste Kesici, Didem Çiftçi, Mert Kalaycı

• SMART TRACKING SYSTEM

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. İlker Korkmaz Students: Serhat Deniz Öztürk, Utkucan Girgin

• SORTMEALL

   

  Advisor: Prof. Murat Aşkar Students: İrem Büşra Kılıç, Gülfem Tümtürk

• STUCIAL

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Faezeh Yeganli Students: Furkan Kavlak, Simge Güçlükol, Hatice Ertuğrul, Simge Özcan

• TEOS OF DIONYSOS

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Gazihan Alankuş Students: Emre Özdemir, Yiğit Can Dündar

• TOPOGRAPHER

   

  Advisor: Prof. Murat Aşkar Students: Tekin Evrim Özmermer, Uğur Çetmili, Ahmet Atatoprak, Selin Önal

• TOWIN BEAST PLATFORM GAME

   

  Advisor: Prof. Hüseyin Akcan Students: Sinan Küçükyılmaz, Doğa Ünal, Bora Armağan Koyuncu

• VIRTUAL HISTORY 

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Gazihan Alankuş Students: Emre Mutlu, Onur Kaya

• VISUANARY

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Senem Metin Kumova Students: Onur Yıldırım Çağatay

• VISUANARY MOBILE DICTIONARY

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Senem Kumova Metin Students: Onur Yıldırım, Çağatay Doğan, Batuhan Yıldız

• VITIS VITICULTURE CONTROL SYSTEM

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Senem Kumova Metin Students: Özgün Eşer, Seda Sarıbaş ve Buse Günay

• www.whichisgreat.com

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Gazihan Alankuş Students: Ege Deliguru, Onat Çipli

• YOLOO

   

  Advisor: Prof. Emrullah Turhan Tunalı Students: Duygu Keşkek, Yasin Sinan Kayacan

• HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON

   

  Advisor: Prof. Barış Özerdem Students: Ecospace Grubu

• ELECTRIC CAR

   

  Advisor: Asst. Prof. Bülent Bilir, Lecturer Dr. Murat Türkan Students: 12 engineering students