| Current Projects
Walking Robot
A new robot is being created, nick-named MARS Reloaded by the students, which in addition to incorporating functional arms, hands, legs and a head, is also being developed with the future goal of being able to interact via robot-to-robot speech with another robot. It is being implemented by group of various years of Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science students.
Talking Robot
The vision is for two robots to enact the roles of Krishna and Arjuna, with Arjuna asking various spiritual questions and Krishna giving appropriate answers from the Bhagavad Gita.
Image Recognition Robot
Senior electronics (2008) students are designing and building a robot that can identify an object and pick it up. One of the aims of the project is to build a robot that can represent Amrita in All-India level competitions. This project is funded by the Robotics Lab and the College ofEngineering.
Hybrid Rickshaw
Senior mechanical and electronic students (2008) are designing and implementing a hybrid electric power scheme for a rickshaw.
Solar Electric Autorickshaw
A group of Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering students (2009) have designed and built a battery powered rickshaw with a solar panel on top. The solar panel is to provide battery charging and supplementary energy for the vehicle. The project is sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering department. It will be upgraded with more advanced technologies as possible.
Chakshuyaan
Remote Control Flying Vehicle with Video Capability β ME and EC junior students (2009) are creating a remote controlled flying vehicle that will be able to hover, take video, and transmit it wirelessly back to the base station.
Completed Projects
VAM 1.0
An image tracking robotic head. Computer Science senior students (2007) successfully wrote and implemented their own image tracking algorithm that gradually progressed to encompass full-speed real-life color image tracking. It utilized a webcam and two servo motors for a full hemisphere of vision capability.
LIN-MARS
A Java based distributed robotic control program was implemented by Information Technology senior students (2007). It allows a modular approach to programming the robot, using message queues. Multiple computers or a single computer can host the application. This robots flexible and modular architecture design will allow multiple student teams to simultaneously work on
many different research frontiers in parallel.
Robotic Arm and Speech
A robotic arm was created by senior IT students (2007), junior EC students (2008), and junior ME students (2008). The arm could be controlled via voice and functioned through the LINMARS distributed control program developed by other students.
Unmanned Robotic Boat using GPS
A robotic boat was created by senior EC students (2007). It had the capability to be remote controlled. When the remote signal was lost it would find itβs way back to home base via GPS.
Submarine Robot
A submarine robot, driven by motors and capable of grasping and moving an object from one location to another, was successfully developed to retrieve an object lost in water.
Mars
A wheeled robot with the ability to move between multiple user-defined destinations. It can be controlled wirelessly in both dynamic and pre-programmed modes via a server terminal with an easy to use Graphical User Interface. It can also speak real-time and preprogrammed messages.
Other Activities
A national level robotics workshop was organized on 14th and 15th of October 2006 in association with Bangalore Robotics, centered around Basic Robotic techniques such as sense & control, practical orientation of theoretical norms, take-home robot construction, microcontroller interface, wireless robot control, autonomous robotic techniques, and PCB design and fabrication.
A four day seminar on the Fundamentals of Robotics was conducted in house during October 2007. Topics covered include basic robotics, sensors, an introduction to nano robots and project presentations.
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