Integrating UAVs into Engineering Education Curriculum

Global Drone Conference 2019 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ismail Bayezit, Istanbul Technical University
MITEC @ Kuala Lumpur, 21 October 2019
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ismail Bayezit, TABIP Science Advisor
Integrating UAVs into Engineering
Education Curriculum
Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects
Prepared for: Global Drone Conference 2019
21 October.2019, Bayezit I., GDC 2019 Talk 1

Agenda
 Profile of the speaker and ITU Model Based Design Lab
 TABIP Project Objectives for Integration of UAV Technologies
into Education Curriculum
 Ongoing Academic Collaborations on Drone Technologies
 EU Funded Developing Novel UAV Education Set and Training Curriculum Catching
State of the Art Technology
 Potential Fellowship Opportunities within the scope of Drone Technologies
221 October.2019, Bayezit I., GDC 2019 Talk

Profile of the Speaker and ITU MoDeL Lab
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Profile: Dr. İsmail Bayezit
Position:
Assistant Professor
TABIP Science Advisor
Education
 B.Sc. at Istanbul Technical University
(ITU) in Electronics Engineering
 B.Sc. at ITU Control Engineering
 M.Sc. at ITU Electrical Engineering
 PhD at University of Waterloo (UW),
Mechanical Engineering, Canada
(Dissertation (GM Project): Developing
Collaborative Driving Strategies)
 3 years with FEV GmbH as project engineer in
software development, test software
 6 months with SAFRAN Energy Efficient Aircrafts
 3 years at ITU Aerospace Engineering R&D Fellow
 4 years with UW Mechatronics Engineering Depart.
 4 years with ITU Aero Engineering as R&D Fellow
Professional experience
 ITU-SAFRAN SA: Multi-Physical Modeling, System Iden. &
Control System Design for Multirotor Systems (Fly Taxi)
 ITU-FEV GmbH: Hardware in the Loop Model development
and integration for Electric Vehicles
 GM-TNO: Real-time control function development for
cooperative adaptive cruise control of Smart Fortwo
 ITU-TUBITAK: Autopilot hardware and software design
Trainer 60 model unmanned aerial vehicle
 NSERC CANADA: Cohesive motion control of Rigid Aerial
Formations
Selected key projects Areas of Expertise
 Model based SW engineering, Modeling, Simulation,
Auto Code Generation (Matlab/Simulink/AMESim)
 Function Library development for Automotive
Software Applications
 Embedded Systems, Software Quality, CMMI
 Autonomous flight and avionics system design
 Hybrid and Electrical Systems
 Turkish (native), English (fluent),
 German (certified Mittelstufe Deutsch)
 5 years at ITU Aero Engineering Instructor:
Electrical and Control courses
 4 years with UW as TA of Math. and Control courses
 4 years with ITU as TA of Control Courses
Languages
Teaching experience

ITU MoDeL Lab R&D Facility
■ Dynamic Modeling and Simulation
■ Control System Design
■ Hardware in the Loop Mechanisms
■ Software Development for Multi-Physical
Systems (Spatial, Aerial, Terrestrial Platforms)
Multi-Physical Modeling, System Identification and Control System Design for
Next Generation VTOL Systems

R&D Facility: International Collaborations
Model Based Design and Control Lab
■ International Project with SAFRAN FRANCE
«Multi-Physical Modeling, System Identification and Control System Design for Next
Generation VTOL Systems»
■ International Project with FEV GmbH and ADAS Systems
«Software and Model Development for Hybrid Vehicles»
«Smart Calibration Tool for Diesel Emissions»
Base look-up
table given in the
diesel engine
model Plant Modeling of 7H-AMT
(Hybrid Automated Manual Transmission)

TABIP Project and Objectives for Introducing
Drone Technologies
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Academic and Scientific Cooperation Project of Turkey (TABIP)
TABIP Adds Value to the International Academic and Scientific Environment
 To engage in and contribute to academic and scientific activities,
 To widen the scientific network of the world by connecting them through the TABIP
Portal, [https://tabip.global/] & [https://tabipacademy.com/]
 To contribute the international academic & scientific cooperation,
 To support the innovative academic & scientific project incentives,
 To ensure the transfer of know-how.
We are All Genuises and the World Needs Our Collaboration!

TABIP Collaboration with University of Malaya
 Memorandum of Understanding is signed in between University of Malaya and Yunus
Emre Institute
 Memorandum signed by Vice Chancellor of University of Malaya Datul IR. (Dr.) Abdul
Rahim HJ. Hashim and Turkish Republic’s Ambassador to Kuala Lumpur Dr. Merve
Kavakçı on March, 18th 2019

ITU-UM-TABIP Collaboration for Advanced Drone Technologies
 TABIP project encourages the cooperation in between ITU and UM professors
 ITU professors did many conference calls and project dicussions with UM professors
 Accepted Project Proposal on Smart Unmanned Platform for Tropical Water Monitoring
and Preservation in Malaysia

Ongoing and Upcoming Academic Collaborations
on Drone Technologies
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Current Collaborative Actions with Malaysia
# R&D Project Title or Facility Title Details
1-
Collaborative Strategies protecting
Tropical Lakes and Rivers using
Novel Multitask Flight Platform
UM and APAC funds in order to design
Unmanned Aerial and Floating Platform
monitoring the tropical waters
2- XFire Innovation Challenge
Supporting University of Malaya Unmanned
Systems Student team for XFire Challenge
3-
Next Generation Drone Technologies
2020
We have the following collaborations within Turkey and Malaysia:
Searching for Malaysian Private
Sector and University Partners
EU Funded Key Action, RISE
and ITN Projects

TABIP Academy Aviation Technology Summer School
Another collaboration in between Malaysia is inviting Malaysian Students to
Turkey for Aviation Technology

TABIP Academy Planned Drone Facilities in 2020
 Drone Technologies Talk Series for Entrepreneurs
– We will invite world leading professors and professionals for 10 days event in the
summer of 2020 for «Drone Technology and Entrepreneurship talks»
 Opening Drone Technologies Graduate Programme: International Collaboration
with Leading Universities

EU Funded STOA UAV Project
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EU Funded KA 203 STOA UAV Project
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STOA UAV Project Target
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 Educating Beginners and Undergrad.
Engineering Students
 Writing a handbook for UAV Techno-
logies Course
 Creating the Academic Curriculum for
UAV Technologies Course for Under-
graduate Students
 Generate Video and Social Media
Content including new trends on
Advanced Drone Technologies
 Project Period: October 2018-2020
 Project Budget: ~220.000,00€
Developing Novel UAV Education Set and Training Curriculum in order to Catch State
of the Art Technology
 In collaboration with ITU, ERU, TU Bucharest,
and TU Berlin DAI Labor

EU Funded KA 203 STOA UAV Project
UAV - FIXED WING Content
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 Fundamentals of UAV Systems
and Technologies
 Active and Passive Morphing
Applications on UAVS
 Image Quality Improvement
Applications on UAVs
 UAV Design, Operation and
Logistics
 Control Systems Design for
Rotary and Fixed-Wing UAV
Systems
 Collaborative Flight of UAVs
 Fault Tolerant Approaches
Developing Novel UAV Education Set and Training Curriculum in order to Catch State
of the Art Technology
 STOA UAV Meeting at Bucharest,
Romania, September 3rd, 2019

Potential Academic and Scientific Fellowship
Opportunities
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Potential Project Titles
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 Potential Cooperative Project Title I: Vision Based Autonomous Landing for a Multirotor
System
– Avionic and Software Design for Autonomous Vision Based Landing for the Multirotor Systems
 Potential Cooperative Project Title II: Benchmarking on Multirotor Platforms
– Model/Approach development for different multirotor configurations (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th
rotor platforms)
– Flight Mechanical Analysis of Multirotor Platforms including Lifting Surfaces
 Potential Cooperative Project Title III: Fault Detection/Isolation and Fault Tolerant Control
Approaches
– Development and Testing of Fault Detection on Sensory and Actuator Systems of Altınay
Platforms
 Potential Cooperative Project Title IV: Aerial Taxi or Heavy-Duty Drone Benchmarking,
Model and Control Software Development
– Development and Validation of Flight Mechanical Model for Potential Air-Taxi/Heavy-Duty
Drone Platforms
– Autopilot Design and Decentralized Aerial Traffic Benchmarking for the big drone platforms

UM & ITU & Industry Cooperative Project Title I
Vision Based Autonomous Landing for a Multirotor System Potential Proposal Titles
Vision Based Autonomous Landing for a Multirotor System
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 Vision Based Control Approaches
– Machine Learning and Deep
Neural Network Approaches
 Contributing Autonomous Control
Design of Multirotor Platforms
– Gain Scheduling
– Adaptive and Model Predictive
Control Methods
– AI Based Approaches
 Avionics, Algorithm and Software Design for an autonomous
vision based landing of a multicopter

UM & ITU & Industry Cooperative Project Title II
Physical Model of the Airborne Vehicle Multi-Physical Model Content
 Modeling translational and
rotational dynamics of the vehicle
including stability derivatives and
Lift-Drag forces
 Deterministic Control and/or
Artificial Intelligence based
Autopilot loops are implemented
 Include simplified rotor and motor
control dynamics
 Consider kinematic transforma-
tions and physical saturations
 LMS AMESim/AMESet,
Matlab/Simulink softwares will be
used for modeling and
benchmarking within different
simulation loops
Multi-Physical Modeling of Multicopter Aircraft
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 Model/Approach development for different multirotor
configurations (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th rotor
platforms)

UM & ITU & Industry Cooperative Project Title II
Lift-Drag Force Calculation Modeling Approaches
Flight Mechanical Modeling of the Various Multirotor Configuration
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 Physical vehicle model includes
aerodynamical calculation of lift
and drag coefficients
 Calculate using Flight Mechanical
Approaches

Potential Cooperative Project Title III
Lift-Drag Force Calculation Modeling Approaches
Fault Detection/Isolation and Fault Tolerant Control Approaches
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 Developing Testing Fault Tolerant
Control Approaches suitable for
Multirotor Systems
 Fault detection & isolation for
fixing sensory and actuator faults
on multirotor platforms
 Fault tolerant control, fault detection & isolation for
investigating sensory and actuator faults on multirotor
systems

Potential Cooperative Project Title IV
Geometrical Benchmarking for Malaysian Aerial Taxi and/or Big Cargo Drone
 Development of Flight Mechanical and Dynamical System of Potential Air-Taxi
 Control System Design for the Aerial Platform
 Fixed rotor and Tilt rotor flight vehicle approaches
 Collaborative Flight Design
BlackSky
AgustaWestland Project Zero
Volocopter 2x Ehang 184
Heavy-Duty Drones

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Q/As Section
Thanks for your participation and support
Dr. İsmail Bayezit
Assistant Professor
TABIP Science Advisor
Mobile +90 (535) 799 32 87
Email : bayezit@itu.edu.tr
ismailbayezit@gmail.com
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