A team forged at Selçuk University.
From a classroom sketch to world-championship podiums — this is KAPSÜL YAVUZ HAN, and this is how we work.
Born in a workshop. Proven on the water.
KAPSÜL YAVUZ HAN was founded at Selçuk University in Konya, Türkiye by a group of engineering students with a single ambition: to build unmanned marine vehicles that compete — and win — against the best teams in the world.
What began as a student project has grown into a complete robotics program: our own composites manufacturing, our own electronics, our own autonomy stack. Every system on our vessels is designed, built, broken, rebuilt and validated by students.
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Why we build.
Engineer real autonomous systems
To advance engineering education in Türkiye by designing, manufacturing and competing autonomous maritime systems at the highest international level — learning through real hardware, real water and real deadlines.
A generation that ships
A team whose members graduate having already shipped complex systems end-to-end — engineers who have felt a vessel they built with their own hands cross the finish line on its own.
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Four teams, one hull.
Every vessel is the sum of four disciplines working from the same CAD file and the same deadline.
Mechanical & Composites
Hull design, CAD, CFD analysis, mold making and carbon-fiber manufacturing.
Electrical & Embedded
Power distribution, custom PCBs, motor control, telemetry and safety systems.
Software & Autonomy
Perception, sensor fusion, mission planning, controls and the ROS 2 stack.
Operations & Outreach
Sponsorship, media, competition documentation and team logistics.
What the water taught us.
Rigor over shortcuts
Analysis first, then prototype, then test. Never the other way around.
Document everything
If it isn't written down, it didn't happen — and it can't be improved.
Water punishes assumptions
The lake doesn't care about simulations alone. Everything meets the water.
Team first
No single member is smarter than the whole team shipping together.