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Tapir Lab. @ TEKNOFEST 2023 Digital Technologies in Industry Competition – Advanced Category

Tapir Lab. has completed the final competition of Digital Technologies in Industry Competition – Advanced Category in TEKNOFEST 2023. The fundamental objective of the Digital Technologies in Industry Competition is developing autonomous mobile robots that can transport materials between two pre-determined points by following lines, updating planned route in real time by sensing changes in the environment, and warning the operators in case of an emergency. These are the characteristics of mobile robots used in manufacturing facilities and warehouses. After a long preparation phase, Tapir Lab. has participated in the competition with the TapirBot v2.0 which is developed considering the obligations and requirements of the competition.

Tapir Lab. congratulates all the contestants and wishes them success!

IEEE Turkey PDEA Coordinator, Serhan Yarkan is Appointed as IEEE Region 8 Local Language Ambassador – Turkish.

IEEE Turkey Professional Development and Educational Activities Coordinator and Tapir Lab. Director Serhan Yarkan has been appointed as the IEEE Region 8 Local Language Ambassador – Turkish.

During his term of office, Serhan Yarkan leads to creation of digital contents, organization different technical events/conferences, and educational activities for particularly Turkish-speaking IEEE members in collaboration with Region 8 IEEE Professional and Education Activities Sub Committee Chair Conrad Attard.

Tapir Lab. congratulates Serhan Yarkan and wishes him success!

Tapir Lab. @Urban Rail Systems and Railways Workshop organized by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure

Upon the invitation of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Tapir Lab. presented the studies conducted on signaling and communications at the Urban Rail Systems and Railways Workshop organized by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure on November 22nd, 2022.

TapirCast v3.1 is ON AIR!

TapirCast v3.1 is on air! We are proud to announce that host and guests are represented by a virtual character and their mouth shapes are synchronized as they talk. This audio visualization is developed using Tapir Lab.’s Lip-Sync method which is publicly available on the official GitHub page of Tapir Lab. You can watch the first episode of TapirCast v3.1 below. (in Turkish)

Tapir Lab. received best paper award @BalkanCom’22!

Tapir Lab. proudly announce that the best paper award in Fifth International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom 2022) is given to Tapir Lab. member Sezer Can Tokgöz, who is currently carrying out his research @Qualcomm, for his work entitled “On the Physical Layer Security of Maximal-Ratio Combining Over Weibull Fading Channels”. Tapir Lab. wish him success in the future!

Tapir Lab. @BalkanCom 2022!

Tapir Lab. members, Dr. Sezer Can Tokgöz presented the paper entitled “On the Physical Layer Security of Maximal-Ratio Combining Over Weibull Fading Channels” and Halil Said Cankurtaran presented the paper entitled “Statistical Modeling of Sand and Dust Storm Attenuation” at the Fifth International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom 2022) which is co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc.

TapirCast v3.0 is ON AIR!

We are proud to announce that TapirCast episodes will be on YouTube with a new kind of audio-visualization method! From now on, the mouth shapes of speakers will be represented on a virtual character as they talk. This audio visualization is developed using Tapir Lab.’s Lip-Sync method which is publicly available on the official GitHub page of Tapir Lab. You can watch the first episode prepared via Tapir Lab.’s lip-sync method below (in Turkish).

Tapir Lab. @ TEKNOFEST 2022 Digital Technologies in Industry Competition – Advanced Category

Tapir Lab. took first place by receiving 97 points out of 100 from the submitted Project Detail Report (PDR) for Digital Technologies in Industry Competition – Advanced Category in TEKNOFEST 2022. The fundamental objective of the Digital Technologies in Industry Competition is developing autonomous mobile robots that can transport materials between two pre-determined points by following lines, updating planned route in real time by sensing changes in the environment, and warning the operators in case of an emergency. These are the characteristics of mobile robots used in manufacturing facilities and warehouses. After a long preparation phase, Tapir Lab. has participated in the competition with the TapirBot v1.0 which is developed considering the obligations and requirements of the competition. The results of the TEKNOFEST 2022 Digital Technologies in Industry Competition will be announced at the award ceremony to be held in Samsun on August 30th 2022.