Sea · Targeting TEKNOFEST 2027
Master the depths. ALMILA is a next-generation autonomous underwater vehicle designed for complex missions and powered by modular robotics and AI.
The target is the TEKNOFEST 2027 Unmanned Underwater Systems Competition. Its tasks: finding lines and pipelines by vision, holding depth and heading, travelling to a given position on its own and deploying a small robot into a pipeline. The vehicle has to stay small and light (targets: under 60 cm in its largest dimension and under 12 kg) and protect itself against leaks and loss of link.
Software: AI-based object detection and our own mission planner; one computer handles vision and the mission, an autopilot holds depth and heading. Mechanical: a cage-less, enclosed ray-shaped hull; 8 thrusters sit in tunnels inside the hull (no exposed propellers) and move the vehicle in 6 degrees of freedom, while piston ballast tubes on both sides trim buoyancy. Electrical: our own power distribution board; electronics and battery live in a watertight aluminium tube in the centre. The vehicle talks to the shore over a fibre-optic tether, and a magnetic emergency-stop switch on its back cuts the battery. A Mini ROV carried under its belly is deployed into the pipeline.
8 thrusters in tunnels inside the hull; the vehicle moves in 6 degrees of freedom with no exposed propellers.
A cage-less, enclosed hull; electronics and battery in a central watertight tube, ballast tubes on the sides.
A magnetic emergency stop cuts the battery; if a leak is detected the vehicle surfaces.
One design, multi-domain — with a universal mounting interface the arm fits sea, air and land vehicles without modification: underwater sampling, aerial grasping and payload delivery, debris removal on the ground.
A small robot carried under the belly is released into the pipeline; its video reaches the shore over the main tether.
A next-generation autonomous underwater vehicle designed for complex missions, built on modular robotics and AI.
Software
Object detection from the camera runs on the onboard embedded computer; the mission planner is our own software.
Mechanical
An eight-thruster layout for six-degree-of-freedom, omnidirectional movement.
Electrical
Our own power distribution board with isolated noise filtering.
Thanks to a universal mounting interface, the arm fits air, land and sea platforms without modification.
Sea · USV / AUV
Underwater grasping and sample collection.
Integrated on ALMILA
Air · UAV
Aerial grasping and payload delivery.
Lightweight carbon fibre build
Land · UGV
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and debris removal.
High-torque configuration
Design renders — exterior, hull, shell, propulsion and ballast.
The people behind the project.
Ali Kemal Tarık Çebin
Nurefşan İclal Arıtürk
İrem İkbal Yeniay
Furkan Demirci