Infrastructure and Laboratory
Yapılış Tarihi | 07 August 2026, Friday
The main aim of our department's infrastructure is to enable students not only to learn how to use devices and technologies but also to grow as individuals who can identify an agricultural problem, select appropriate measurement and data collection methods, design technological solutions, and evaluate the systems they develop under real production conditions.
In this direction, our students are expected to;
- -Be able to identify an agricultural problem,
- -Determine appropriate measurement methods and collect reliable data,
- -Design technological solutions for agricultural needs,
- -Be able to develop prototypes and test and evaluate the developed systems under real production conditions
is targeted.
In this respect, Our Research and Application Workshop and MAKÜ's agricultural research and application infrastructure provide an integrated environment that brings together education, scientific research, technology development, and agricultural application within the same working chain. Our students can actively participate in different stages from design to prototyping, from measurement and data collection to field applications within this structure.
The Research and Application Workshop, located within the Department of Precision Agriculture and Agricultural Robots, serves educational, research, design, and prototyping activities in approximately 500 m² of indoor space on the ground floor of the Faculty of Science and Letters. The workshop is structured as an integrated working environment where students can apply their theoretical knowledge and use different engineering disciplines together to solve agricultural problems.
The workshop includes a design classroom, electronics laboratory, sensor laboratory, mechanical workshop, and meeting room. Thanks to this structure, a project can be carried out within the same research environment from the idea and design phase to the development of electronic systems, mechanical manufacturing, sensor integration, measurement, and testing processes.
In our department, students and researchers not only use ready-made technologies but also have the opportunity to design, develop, produce, and test the systems they need. After three-dimensional design studies, parts and experimental setups can be prototyped with 3D printers; if necessary, existing geometries can be transferred to the digital environment using three-dimensional scanning technologies. The department's inventory includes multi-material 3D printer systems and professional 3D scanning infrastructure.
This approach particularly enables the rapid development of agricultural robots, sensor carrier systems, experimental setups, measurement devices, and unique mechanical components. Thus, students can directly experience the process from the physical prototyping of a design they developed in a computer environment to its testing.
The Research and Application Workshop has a wide measurement infrastructure that allows not only the development of agricultural systems but also their quantitative evaluation. Our device park primarily supports the following working groups:
-Mechanical testing and performance measurements: tensile-compressive force, pulling force, torque, rotation, vibration, hardness, and mechanical movement tests.
-Electronic and energy measurements: electrical power analysis, voltage-current measurements, multi-channel data recording, and simultaneous data collection from different sensors.
-Environmental and agricultural measurements: measurement of physical parameters such as temperature, humidity, air speed, solar radiation, pressure, soil penetration resistance, flow, and liquid flow rate.
-Positioning and detection technologies: RTK-GNSS, multispectral imaging, stereo depth cameras, meteorological measurement systems, and field sensors.
-Imaging and experimental analysis: high-speed imaging, precision weighing systems, and time and motion-based examination of different experimental processes.
The department's inventory includes force and torque measurement systems, ultrasonic flow measurement, power analyzers, data loggers, high-speed cameras, and a wide variety of environmental sensors. Additionally, there is a strong data collection infrastructure for precision agriculture applications based on land and plants, thanks to multispectral drones, meteorological stations, RTK-GNSS receivers, and stereo depth cameras.
In precision agriculture and agricultural robotics studies, the collaboration of mechanical, electronic, and software components is one of the fundamental requirements. Therefore, the department's infrastructure is planned not only with a single laboratory understanding but as a development environment where complementary working areas are brought together.
While working on measurement, data collection, and control systems in electronics and sensor laboratories, carrier systems, experimental devices, and prototype components can be developed in the mechanical workshop. The design classroom serves as a common working area where three-dimensional modeling, system design, and project development activities are carried out.
This structure offers an interdisciplinary working environment, especially in the development of agricultural automation, robotics, sensor integration, and unique experimental setups.
Within MAKÜ, there are application areas that students and researchers can use in field applications. In addition, practical training in our department is not limited to the workshop environment.
Depending on the course content, students have the opportunity to directly examine and use production processes, agricultural machines, measurement systems, and technological applications on-site at the animal husbandry and plant production facilities within the university. Thus, students can observe the real production conditions corresponding to the concepts they learned in class and laboratory.
In larger-scale agricultural production and livestock technology applications, joint studies are conducted with the Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Research Application and Research Center and the university's units in the field of plant production. This collaboration allows for the testing of systems developed in the laboratory under real agricultural production conditions, measurement, and evaluation of application results.