Two Days Hands on Workshop on “Industrial to Robotics” by e-Yantra IIT Bombay.

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e-Yantra is a project initiated by IIT-Bombay sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development under National Mission in Education through Information and Communication Technology. The mission of e-yantra project is to enable students and staff of Technical Institutions to take India's economy to a greater height by 2025 with the help of technological innovations. Our Management of I.T.S. Engineering College has the mission to grow a rich eco-system of ideas and applications; it encourages faculty members and students’ research activities in Robotics, Automation and Embedded system platform. Our Management is very keen in establishing many research labs in our campus and funded 5 Lakhs to establish Robotics and embedded systems lab in our college and aims to create the next generation of embedded system engineers with a practical outlook to provide practical solutions to real world problems. Our faculty members have attended two days’ workshop and got trained through Faceto-face training in embedded systems and Micro-controller programming related to Robotics. Our Team Leader and members are also involved actively in the Task Based Training comprising of a total of six different tasks which is an endeavor to train teachers in Embedded Systems and Robotics through hands-on experiments which is given by IIT Bombay on Firebird V robot. Team members successfully completed all the six tasks. e-Yantra is a project to spread Embedded systems and Robotics education in colleges across India. The e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) enables colleges to set up Robotics labs and teach Robotics and Embedded systems in an effective manner. E-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) is a holistic approach to. The aim of this workshop was to understand robotics and embedded system through Firebird V Atmega 2560 based robot. This was intended to make a step forward in understanding, working of electro-mechanical parts of robotics and how to integrate them to make a complete system.

The Department of Electronics & Communication of I.T.S. Engineering College in association with e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI), IIT Bombay organized a Two-Day Workshop on Introduction to Robotics for the teaching faculty in greater Noida and other neighbouring states. The inaugural function was held on 16^th June 2023 at the institute.

The inaugural began with lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries – Director Dr. Mayank Garg, Dr. Monika Jain, HOD Electronics Communication Department, Dr. Setu Garg, Associate Professor, Mr. Shahid Khan, Mr. Prabhakar Sharma, Mr. Agha Asim Hussain, Mr. Navneet Chaudhary, Ms. Pragati Tripathi, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the event, Mr. Kalind Kariya and Mr. Jaison Jose, Senior Project Engineer, e-Yantra IIT Bombay.  

Dr. Mayank Garg, Director Engineering welcomed everyone and, in her message, urged the participants to take maximum advantage and to get the doubts clarified and spread this knowledge to your respective institutes.

Dr.  Monika Jain, H.O.D. ECE addressed all the participants and welcomed Prof. Kavi Arya Principal Investigator, e-Yantra, IIT Bombay. She also stated that this workshop provides a very good platform to take off in our career. There is guidance, freedom and an environment for teaching and learning. She has introduced two initiatives from IIT Bombay, one being Remote Centre for IITB and second is the e-Yantra Laboratory under e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI). The purpose of which is to further education in India by thinking beyond, practically and to think differently.

The Overview of e-Yantra was through a live web session by Prof. Kavi Arya, Principal Investigator, e-Yantra, IIT Bombay, Ms. Ruchi Sharma, Dr. Anshu, Mr. Kiran Solanki Senior Project Manager, Core Team, e-Yantra. He expressed gratitude to the management of I.T.S. Engineering College for hosting this workshop at their campus and for having faith in the e-Yantra project. He explained about the project in detail to all the participants. Also, he elaborated on the initiatives taken up by them to train teachers and set up labs in their respective colleges. According to her this project is attaining popularity by word of mouth rather than self-promotion. Dr. Mayank Garg and Dr. Monika Jain thanked the e-Yantra Resource Persons, Management, e-Yantra Core Team and all the participants for being a part of this workshop.

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Session I: DAY:1

• First session started with introduction of robotics and its components like sensors, actuators, Control unit, Intelligence, communication and power system. Each component separately taught and practical sessions done accordingly.
• After the end of this session, students and faculty members got to know about what are the sensors/actuators/Control Unit and how to program a control unit to interface them.
• Up to now they had performed individual interfacing of robot’s components.

Session II: DAY:2

• In second session, students had started to integrate all the components to make complete system like a line follower robot.
• End of this session students and faculty members knew to make closed loop system, what are the components required and how to integrate them on embedded system. Each session had 4 hours.

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• Participants learnt about Robotics technology.
• Participants got exposure to industrial application of robotics.
• Participants understood how to make Robotics based Projects.
• Participants know about the e-yantra lab and their activities.
• Participants have got the depth knowledge of Firebird-V Robot and its applications.
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