ROBOTICS

Robotics Club under the aegis of Deptt. of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon organized a two-day Workshop on “Robotics” in association with Robosapiens Technologies Pvt. Ltd., NOIDA from 8th to 9th February, 2013.

The aim of this workshop was to gather knowledge in the field of robotics and utilise the expertise developed to fabricate new models as machine design, control theory, microcontroller, artificial intelligence and mechanical gadgets.

The Workshop basically dealt with designing various kinds of electronic sensors and circuits and their use in making autonomous robots using a microcontroller. It was divided into four sessions to impart theoretical information and to give hands on Robotics. In first session students got acquainted with the basics of electronics and various components used in project fabrication. Second session dealt with the basics of a microcontroller especially the AVR series micro controller, ATMega16, which was one of the most powerful and widely used 8 bit micro controllers. Session 3 & 4 provided hands on session for Development of a Edge avoiding Robot, Line Following Robot and Light Searching Robot on iBOT Robokit.

At the end of this workshop, a competition was also organized and 15 winners were awarded with Merit certificates. The winners will get an opportunity to participate in the Robotics Project Exhibition to be held at IIT Kharagpur. All the participants were awarded certificates for participation.

The workshop was aimed to expand students’ creativity and entrepreneurship skills through application of Robotics. Having attended the workshop students come up with a Wired Robot, Wireless Robot, Line tracking robot, Sound operated robot, Computer Controlled Robots and many other technical aspects of Robotics.

The co-ordinators of the club Mrs. Jyoti Kohar, Associate Professor, Dept of ECE and Mr. Chandrashekhar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE expressed their gratitude to the representatives of Robosapiens Technologies Pvt. Ltd., NOIDA for sparing precious time to enlighten the participants at DCE, Gurgaon.