Mumbai: At the
National Robotics Contest held on March 3 and 4, KJ Somaiya Institute of
Engineering and Information Technology (KJSIEIT) ranked ninth amongst 113 teams
from across the country. Fourteen students worked on various aspects of
building the Robot - Mechanical, Electronics and Programming. The Mechanical
team created and designed the structure of bot such as the throwing mechanism,
projectile mechanism, and chassis of bots. The Electronics team, and the
programming team worked on the control of mechanical structure, and providing
brain to the entire system. This year's challenge at the contest was to create
and manoeuvre a bot to knock out a beach ball located on a table and then land
a disc on seven tables located at different distances with varying heights on
the table.
Student team leader
Pradeepkumar Choudhary said, “My journey with RoboCon KJSIEIT started in 2014,
and since then I have been an integral part of a team which has developed my
technical and managerial skills to a great extent. Here, I learnt to cope with
working and delivering on a problem statement in a given time span. Students
working in the team have extra edge over their colleagues because apart from
technical knowledge they develop skills of working in teams.” On the occasion,
Principal, Dr Suresh Ukrande said, “Robocon is a national level robot competition
that serves an excellent platform for young engineers and their mentors to
innovate and excel in creative thinking in the field of Robotics. It is a
feeling of great pride to see our students work so hard. Such a remarkable
achievement is only possible through students' hard work and toil. The project
also promoted leadership and problem-solving skills as well as engineering and
business skills throughout the entire process of designing and building.” The
team demonstrated its expertise with their ability to make the bot economical
as well as with good aesthetics. They created a robust design that did not need
repairs or maintenance during the five-day event. The electronic circuits were
designed with minimum wiring and with a single printed circuit board.
Source:DNA-17th March,2017
