A team of students from the Oguz Han Engineering and Technology University of Turkmenistan delivered an outstanding performance in the final of the International Competition “Specialists for the Digital System: Creation of Design and Engineering Solutions in a Competitive Cyber Environment” held in the Russian Federation. Their achievement became another significant contribution to Turkmenistan’s growing list of international accomplishments.
The prestigious international competition, which began in September 2025, was conducted in three categories and brought together 4,278 participants from CIS countries. Following the preliminary online stages, 57 top university teams from six countries — Turkmenistan, Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan — qualified to participate.
The Turkmen team consisted of eight young specialists, including coaches, organizers, programmers, engineers, and technicians. The team successfully completed both training and testing stages, carrying out complex tasks involving the operation of cyber-physical devices in a simulator and their manual assembly. The students demonstrated exceptional skill in controlling flying cyber-physical devices in “acro” mode, which involved performing advanced aerial acrobatic maneuvers.
On the challenging path to the finals, one of the stages called “Zarnisa” featured competitions using ground and aerial cyber-physical devices remotely controlled via the internet at speeds of 50–100 Mbps. As a result of these contests, the Oguz Han University team placed 4th among 57 teams.
In the additional stage “Assembly.SIM” (assembly of an individual mobility device), the Turkmen students achieved a record-breaking result. They fully assembled a flying cyber-physical device consisting of 35 parts in just 10 minutes and took first place with an average score of 97.3. Four students received the maximum score of 100 points by completing the task without a single mistake, significantly boosting the team’s overall ranking.
At the stage preceding the finals, participants were tasked with developing an automatic control algorithm for four flying and two ground cyber-physical devices using the Python programming language. During a four-hour live broadcast, the Turkmen team successfully created software for the cyber-physical devices, enabling them to automatically deliver 16 cargo loads to designated locations.
As a result of these outstanding achievements, the students from the Turkmen university received an official invitation from the organizers to participate in the final stage of the competition in Moscow, which took place from May 11 to 16.
Overall, only eight of the strongest teams out of 57 university teams from six CIS countries earned the right to compete in the finals.
Within the intensive final program, the Turkmen students distinguished themselves in both individual and team competitions.
In the simulator competition, Kerim Nazarov, a third-year student of the university’s Cyber-Physical Systems faculty and team captain, won first place among 64 participants with a result of 58 seconds.
Based on the results of four team competitions, the “Oguz Wings” team from the Turkmen university took second place in the overall standings.
In a special category recognizing high speed and maneuverability demonstrated during the “Cyber Delivery” stage (delivery of cargo over a specified distance in the shortest possible time) and the “BEC Race” stage (competitions involving unmanned cyber-physical devices), the Turkmen team was awarded a trophy and honorary certificate in the “Multirotor Maneuver” category, given to “the team that most accurately, quickly, and flexibly controlled multirotor cyber-physical devices.”
In addition, as part of the engineering project demonstration competition, the Turkmen students successfully designed unmanned cyber-physical systems capable of moving on both water and land.
The achievements of the Turkmen team became another confirmation of the high quality of national education in the fields of digital and cyber-physical systems, as well as the professional training of Turkmen students overall. The commendable participation and victory of Turkmen youth vividly reflected their scientific and creative potential, as well as their constant readiness to conquer new heights and enhance the prestige of their homeland on the global stage.
