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Written by Anurag Dabas
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 22:09 |
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3rd March 2011
Robots have always been a piece of fascination for scientists and science-fiction authors alike. After all, who can forget the Satyajit Ray’s friendly robot Anshul, the Hollywood movie “I Robot”, or the Japanese robot ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility). The nuclear calamity in Japan has clearly shown that it is important to develop more and more sophisticated robots which can work in hostile and dangerous situations like in the case of a nuclear radiation leakage.
Though the students of JMI were clearly not aiming this but with a view of generating more interest and awareness in the field of robotics among students a workshop on robotics was organised by IEEE JMI. Abhinav Garg and Harshvardhan Jha conducted the workshop. The workshop was attended by quite a large number of students and among the attendees there was also the third prize winner of the robotics competition of Encomium (Encephalia) an intelligent 13 year boy!
In the workshop the students were made aware of the common hardware components and software used in the field of robotics and about some concepts like degree of freedom, mobility, use of LED, etc. The special emphasis was on the use of microcontrollers. Several videos on various types of robots like line follower, wall follower, etc. were also shown and a general idea on how they work was also given, without getting into much technicality.
Towards the end of the workshop, a working line follower was also shown to the students. The students were clearly amazed and fascinated on seeing videos showing various kinds of robots and on seeing the line follower in action. In the end it can be safely said that the workshop was quite successful in its aim of creating more interest in robotics among the students. |
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