IKN – At six in the evening, when most campus activities begin to slow down, the laboratory becomes the starting point of another long night for Team Atyabrama from Brawijaya University. One week before departing for the Final of the 2026 Indonesian Flying Robot Contest (KRTI) in Nusantara Capital City (IKN), the team routinely worked until three in the morning. On several occasions, testing and repairs continued until five, six, or even seven in the morning.

Those long nights were spent ensuring that AkashaNetra, the three-dimensional mapping system developed by the team, could operate properly together with their hexacopter as one integrated platform. Tests were repeated, errors were corrected, structures were refined, and each component was gradually adjusted until the entire system functioned as intended.

Atyabrama is led by Zaskia Fitri Nur Azizah, a 2024 Computer Engineering student. The core team also includes Adrian Akhmad Abyas Triyono from Information Technology in the managerial division; Fahmi Muhammad Fayid Dhinanta, Hayqal Husein Alhabsyi, and Keirio Omar Attallah in programming; Galih Permana Putra Winardi and Dendy Adrian Munthe in electrical systems; as well as Anugerah Bhumi Nalaputra, Ahmad Fadhil Abyan, and Nayla Rayhana Zahrany in the mechanical division.

Their journey is also supported by Davin Kenaz Widiananda Tappo, Asyam Udaya Sani, Salwa Hafizhah Zhahirah, Arin Alexia, and Rifqi Fadhil Abrar. Coming from Computer Engineering and Informatics Engineering across the 2023 to 2025 cohorts, these support members contribute to the broader development process behind the team’s aircraft.

AkashaNetra itself is a three-dimensional spatial mapping system based on Rotating 2D LiDAR, installed as a payload beneath the hexacopter. The system enables the aircraft to scan its surroundings and produce three-dimensional maps, including in areas that may be difficult to access directly.

Interestingly, the idea did not originally emerge from disaster-related research. It was inspired by the work of the team’s academic supervisor, Eko Setiawan, on temple mapping. From that research, Atyabrama saw the possibility of applying similar technology to broader purposes, including disaster mitigation and emergency response, where rapid mapping is particularly important in areas with limited access.

Turning that idea into a fully functioning system, however, was far from simple. Each technical division brought a different perspective to the development process. A solution considered ideal by the programming team, for example, did not always immediately meet the needs of the electrical or mechanical divisions. As a result, the team repeatedly returned to discussions, adjusted designs, and retested solutions that had previously seemed complete.

It was through these technical setbacks that Atyabrama gradually became more cohesive. When a system failed during testing, the problem was no longer seen as belonging to one person or one division. Everyone became involved in finding a solution.

“Through this process, we learned that a problem does not belong to just one person or one division, but becomes the responsibility of the entire team,” Atyabrama said.

One of the most memorable moments came when AkashaNetra finally succeeded in carrying out the mapping process as expected. Yet the work was not finished. The system still had to be fully integrated with the hexacopter. When both finally operated successfully as a single platform, the long nights in the laboratory began to feel worthwhile. That sense of achievement grew even stronger when Atyabrama passed the regional selection and secured a place in the KRTI 2026 Final.

Now in IKN, Atyabrama brings more than just a hexacopter and a mapping device. The team carries the result of a long process shaped by collaboration, different viewpoints, technical failures, and the determination to keep trying whenever the system did not perform as expected.

From an initial idea inspired by temple mapping to a technology with potential applications in disaster mitigation, AkashaNetra shows how an innovation can continue to evolve. For Atyabrama, the journey to KRTI 2026 also tells another story behind the technology: a story of students working from evening until morning, combining different fields of expertise, and improving one failure after another to bring their best work to the national stage.