Robot festival at IIT-Kharagpur
Come January and the best tech schools in the country will flock to IIT Kharagpur to participate in a robotic challenge. Designed by the institute's faculty to encourage creativity and applicative deductions, the competition will have prizes worth Rs 60 lakh up for grabs.
The robotics event is part of IIT Kharagpur's annual technology festival, Kshitij, in its eleventh editionnow.
On Sunday, a core team of the Robotics Societyof the institute will hold a free workshop for engineering colleges in the city to make them familiar with the rules of the competition. "There are four categories of the robotics competition and all of them are aimed at finding disaster management solutions with the use of robots to minimize human intervention," explained Arnab Samantaray, an IIT-Kgp student and a member of the Robotics Society.
These four events have been named Geo-Aware, Tremors, Canyon Rushand Inspiral On. In Geo-Aware, a warzone will be created through simulation and participants will have to design robots that can navigate hostile terrain and identify hidden enemies and their arms. Robots have to negotiate through quake-hit areas and conduct rescue operations for the event named Tremors. Canyon Rush will artificially create a likeness of the Grand Canyon and trekkers trapped in different places whom the student-manned robots will have to rescue. In Inspiral On, competitors will have to create robots that will be able to move through oil pipes and gas lines and detect leakages.
"At least 60 government and private engineering colleges from the state have already confirmed their participation and nearly 2,000 students from these colleges will attend the workshop on Sunday. They will also get a chance to try their hands at robot making," said Akarshan Gupta, another member of the Robotics Society.
"Students of IIT Kharagpur have been doing very well in international robotics events. Recently, they made their mark in a high-profile event in Malaysia. Robotics as a genre is the future of engineering and we are trying to inculcate this among students of the country, hence this competition," said P P Chakraborty, director of the institute.
The robotics event is part of IIT Kharagpur's annual technology festival, Kshitij, in its eleventh editionnow.
On Sunday, a core team of the Robotics Societyof the institute will hold a free workshop for engineering colleges in the city to make them familiar with the rules of the competition. "There are four categories of the robotics competition and all of them are aimed at finding disaster management solutions with the use of robots to minimize human intervention," explained Arnab Samantaray, an IIT-Kgp student and a member of the Robotics Society.
These four events have been named Geo-Aware, Tremors, Canyon Rushand Inspiral On. In Geo-Aware, a warzone will be created through simulation and participants will have to design robots that can navigate hostile terrain and identify hidden enemies and their arms. Robots have to negotiate through quake-hit areas and conduct rescue operations for the event named Tremors. Canyon Rush will artificially create a likeness of the Grand Canyon and trekkers trapped in different places whom the student-manned robots will have to rescue. In Inspiral On, competitors will have to create robots that will be able to move through oil pipes and gas lines and detect leakages.
"At least 60 government and private engineering colleges from the state have already confirmed their participation and nearly 2,000 students from these colleges will attend the workshop on Sunday. They will also get a chance to try their hands at robot making," said Akarshan Gupta, another member of the Robotics Society.
"Students of IIT Kharagpur have been doing very well in international robotics events. Recently, they made their mark in a high-profile event in Malaysia. Robotics as a genre is the future of engineering and we are trying to inculcate this among students of the country, hence this competition," said P P Chakraborty, director of the institute.
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