Annual Report 2011-2012 Robotech Team
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ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 ROBOTECH TEAM ROBOTICS CLUB IIT DELHI Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 6th September 2012 1 Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 3 CERTIFICATE .................................................................................................................................................. 4 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 5 2. Workshops and Orientation .................................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Orientation Session ....................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Theoretical Workshop ................................................................................................................... 6 2.3 Marathon Workshop ..................................................................................................................... 7 3. Competitions ......................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1 The Great War of Mahabharata .................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Idea Quest ................................................................................................................................... 10 4. Various Technical Festivals outside IIT Delhi ...................................................................................... 11 4.1 Cricbot ......................................................................................................................................... 11 4.2 Wall-e .......................................................................................................................................... 12 4.3 Magneto ...................................................................................................................................... 13 4.4 Inferno ......................................................................................................................................... 14 4.5 Lumos .......................................................................................................................................... 15 5. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 16 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thanks the Digital hardware Design Lab (IIA-502, Bharati Buliding) for providing us required Arduino Borads and different sensors. I would also like to acknowledge Alumni Association of IIT Delhi for giving us Perl Award which reimbursed our travelling cost. Ankit Laddha Overall Coordinator Robotech team 3 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Robotech team is a part of Robotics Club, IIT Delhi which aims to create a technical atmosphere in institute and develop interest of students in robotics. In year 2011-12 they have done following activities 1. Organized two Workshops “Introduction to Robotics Club” and “Manual Robot Building” which were attended by over 300 students. 2. Organized two competitions “War of Mahabharata” and “IdeaQuest”. 3. Mentored 5 teams for different national level robotics competitions. The core members are: Ankit Laddha Electrical Engineering Overall Coordinator Parijat Mazumdar Electrical Engineering Coordinator Saurabh Runwal Electrical Engineering Coordinator Vinayak Agarwal Electrical Engineering Coordinator Dr. Kolin Paul Dr. S.K.Saha Faculty Advisor Faculty Advisor Robotics Club, IIT Delhi Robotics Club, IIT Delhi 4 1. Introduction Robotics Club is an active platform for students to display and develop their practical machine building skills and knowledge. It is divided into two subgroups Robocon Team and Robotech & Roboholix team. Robocon team concentrates on an International level competition “ABU Robocon”. The other part, Robotech & Roboholix team, is involved in educating students with robot building skills and mentoring them to participate in many nationwide competitions. This team organizes various workshops and competitions to give students the required skill set and also to generate their interest in Robotics. This report provides the details of the yearlong working of the Robotech team. This year we organized two workshops, “Introductory Session to Robotics club” and “Building a manual robot”, and two competitions, “The great War of Mahabharata” and “IdeaQuest”. Apart from these, this year we mentored the maximum number of teams for different nationwide robotics competitions like Techfest (annual technical festival of IIT Bombay), Techkriti (annual technical festival of IIT Kanpur), Kshitij (annual technical festival of IIT Kharagpur) etc. This report begins with the details of workshops organized and then it gives the account of the competitions. After this, it focuses upon the events in which mentored teams had participated and also discusses their achievements. 2. Workshops and Orientation One of the objectives of Robotech team is to educate students about the field of robotics and providing them the skill set to make their own robots. The Robotics Club, IIT Delhi organizes workshops and orientation sessions for students every year with the aim of introducing them to Robotics, teaching them the basics of building their own robots and providing them with the necessary tools for the same. This year, the workshops were organized in 3 stages: the orientation session, the theoretical workshops and the marathon workshops. Just like every year, the workshops were attended by a large number of students. 5 2.1 Orientation Session The initial orientation session was held on 25th August, 2011. The main purpose of this orientation was to help the students get an essence of what the Robotics Club is all about and also get to know its achievements in the past. This session was graced by our faculty mentor Prof. S.K.Saha, who motivated the students with his words of wisdom. After which there were two sessions, first one was delivered by Vishal Mehta which introduced students to the field of robotics and its application in real life, the second one was given by Ankit Laddha which gave a brief introduction about ABU Robocon, which has been the main focus of our club, and also various technical festivals that are held throughout the year. The students were also given a briefing about the events that would be organised by the Robotics Club throughout the year. 2.2 Theoretical Workshop The Theoretical Workshop was again attended by a large number of students. This workshop was held on 9th September, 2011 in IILt2. The aim of this workshop was to give the students a basic overview of how to make their own robots and also explain them a few technical aspects that would be helpful to them in the marathon workshops where they were actually going to build bots. This workshop was divided into 2 sessions: Mechanical Session and Electrical Session. The first part was presented by Vishal Mehta of Mechanical Engineering Department and in this session, the students were introduced to various concepts such as stability, gears, types of wheels, types of robots etc. They were also given a brief introduction on some important aspects that need to be kept in mind while designing mechanical structures. The above session was followed by Electrical Orientation which was presented by Harveen Kaur of Electrical Engineering Department. In this session the concepts of H-Bridges, different kinds of motors, Relays, IC's etc. were explained to the students. They were also explained the working of the electrical circuit that they would be designing in the marathon workshop, as well as the functioning of major components they would be using. 6 2.3 Marathon Workshop The Marathon workshop was held on 10th and 11th September 2011 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Block II-401. Nearly 60 teams with 5 members per team attended the workshop. Due to the large number of students the teams were divided in 2 groups; the first 30 attending the workshops on the first day and rest of them on the second day. A sum of Rs 1400/- was charged per team and the money was used to give all the components that would be required by the students to make their robot and also was used to make the field for the “The Great War of Mahabharata” competition. Every team was provided with a multimeter, soldering iron with stand, 2 motors, wheels, relays, chassis, diodes, switches and other electrical items. Initially the students were given a layout of the circuit that they had to make on that day and they were again explained the working of the circuit. Most of the teams had completed the soldering task and assembling the mechanical body by 3 p.m. and later the seniors helped them to debug the circuits. More than 60% of teams were successfully in running their robots. For the remaining teams who could not make their bots in time a separate doubt clearing session was held on 17th Sept where the seniors helped them to debug their circuits and also solve various difficulties that they were facing while making their bots for the RoboSoccer Competition. Apart from this contact numbers of all the seniors were made available to the students so that they may contact them whenever they faced a problem. Also students were