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Projects

From schematic to shop floor.

Industrial R&D projects, academic research and the lab builds documented on my blog.

01 Defense & aerospace

Systems for military platforms

Hardware and embedded software I have built for land platforms, artillery and weapon systems, electro-optical systems and aircraft, without names.

CTRL BUS · I/O HAT · 4-WAY TRIGGER PALM SW. ILLUSTRATIVE Land platforms

Commander & gunner control grips

Electronics and embedded software for multi-button, ergonomic control grips that let the commander and gunner of turreted armoured vehicles run weapon and sensor systems with one hand.

  • Axis, trigger and button sensing electronics
  • Embedded firmware and vehicle-bus communication
  • Design and testing for military environmental and EMC conditions
AZ SLEW EL HOLD STAB ● ILLUSTRATIVE Land platforms

Control electronics for tank turrets

Design, integration and verification of the command chain that runs from the grips to the control panel and drive electronics of tank and armoured-vehicle turrets.

  • Processing of azimuth / elevation commands
  • Control panel and interface electronics
  • On-platform integration and acceptance tests
TGT FIRE MISSION EL ▲ · AZ ◆ INDIRECT ● ILLUSTRATIVE Artillery systems

Howitzer systems

Control electronics and embedded software for howitzers: heavy artillery that fires at high angles to provide indirect fire support to units at the front.

  • Gunner and control interfaces
  • Elevation / azimuth command chain
  • Electronics built to survive firing and harsh field conditions
TGT-01 · 0.94 IR · WHT-HOT TRK LOCK FOV 6.2° · ZOOM x4 FPS 60 · EDGE AI ILLUSTRATIVE Weapon systems

Image processing for weapon systems

Real-time embedded image processing that detects and tracks targets in day and thermal camera feeds and overlays information on the image.

  • Real-time detection and target tracking
  • Day / thermal video pipelines
  • AI on resource-constrained hardware
HCU · EO/IR ILLUSTRATIVE Electro-optical systems

Hand control units for EO/IR systems

Hardware, embedded software, design rules and documentation for hand control units that drive gimbal-type electro-optical and infrared camera systems.

  • Joystick, button and display interfaces
  • Serial communication with the camera system
  • A product family adapted to several platforms
IDLE MIL MAX STICK GRIP THROTTLE · A/T ILLUSTRATIVE Air platforms

Cockpit controls

Electronics, embedded software and test cases for throttles, stick grips and auto-throttle systems on aircraft and air platforms.

  • Throttle and stick-grip electronics
  • Auto-throttle work
  • Test cases and verification

⚠ Because of confidentiality obligations, programme names, customer details, source code and design files are not shared. The illustrations represent the type of system, not actual designs.

02 Industrial R&D

Funded R&D projects

PRJ-001 TÜBİTAK 1501

Smart Manufacturing Execution System with a Wireless Data Tower

A patent-subject current sensor that reads running, ready, off and fault states without touching the machine’s hardware; an IoT Andon Tower that shows the state with light and transmits it wirelessly; and a gateway that collects data from every machine on the floor and forwards it to the factory server.

IoTHardwareWireless

Signal flow

  1. 01 Current sensor
  2. 02 IoT Andon Tower
  3. 03 Wireless gateway
  4. 04 Factory server
PRJ-002 TÜBİTAK 1501

ML-Based Scheduling & Predictive Maintenance on IIoT Data

A decision support system that treats production planning and resource allocation holistically with AI — minimising stoppages, delays and idle resources while optimising cycle times.

IIoTMachine LearningOptimisation

Signal flow

  1. 01 IIoT sensor data
  2. 02 Data infrastructure
  3. 03 ML + optimisation
  4. 04 Decision support
PRJ-003 KOSGEB

AI-Based Production Planning for Cyber-Physical Smart Factories

An AI-driven production planning system for building cyber-physical production systems and running smart factories.

AIIndustry 4.0

Signal flow

  1. 01 Shop-floor data
  2. 02 Cyber-physical model
  3. 03 AI planner
  4. 04 Smart factory
03 Research

Object Detection from Ground Penetrating Radar on an Embedded System

Mine and object detection from ground penetrating radar signals with neural networks and deep learning, running on resource-constrained embedded hardware. The subject of my M.Sc. thesis and three publications.

  1. 01 GPR antenna
  2. 02 Signal processing
  3. 03 Embedded ML
  4. 04 Detection
  1. [1]Conference2023

    Object Detection From Ground Penetrating Radar Data Using A Deep Learning

    H. Kılıç, H. E. Koçer · Akdeniz 10th International Conference on Applied Sciences · Kyrenia · pp. 95–96

  2. [2]M.Sc. thesis2023

    Object Detection from Ground Penetrating Radar Data Using Machine Learning on an Embedded System

    H. Kılıç · Selçuk University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

  3. [3]Journal2022

    Mine Detection Through Ground Penetrating Radar Data Utilizing Artificial Neural Networks

    H. E. Koçer, H. Kılıç · Journal of Data Science · vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 26–33

  4. [4]Conference2022

    Mine Detection Through Ground Penetrating Radar Data Utilizing Artificial Neural Networks

    H. E. Koçer, H. Kılıç · ICONDATA’22 · 5th International Conference on Data Science and Applications · Fethiye

04 Lab

Built on the bench

Hands-on builds I wrote up step by step on the blog (in Turkish).

LAB-01

Object detection with embedded deep learning

Edge AITensorFlow Lite
LAB-02

Smart garage door with Raspberry Pi

Raspberry PiIoT
LAB-03

DC motor speed control with PIC16F886

PICPWMHall sensor
LAB-04

Reading data with an MCU ADC

ADCMCU
LAB-05

Wheat classification with ANNs

ANNClassification
LAB-06

Pattern recognition with ANNs

ANNPattern recognition
05 Open source

Public repositories on GitHub

github.com/hayri06C++ ESP32-OTA-BOOTLOADER Bootloader with over-the-air updates for ESP32. github.com/hayri06C Fusion_DataLogger-STM32-FATFS STM32 + FatFS data logger to SD card. github.com/hayri06Jupyter PULSAR_SVM Pulsar signal classification with support vector machines. github.com/hayri06Jupyter UretimTahmin_YapayZekaUygulama AI-based greenhouse / production forecasting. github.com/hayri06MATLAB Segmentation_Pattern_Recognition Image segmentation for pattern recognition. github.com/hayri06D DSQLite SQLite work in the D language.