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Innovations in Robotics by School Children
The Office of Principal Scientific Adviser in partnership with Salaam Bombay Foundation and Pune Knowledge Cluster is organizing an outreach session for school children. This session is the third of Innovation & Science @Bharat’s Industry-Academia knowledge series.
Date: March 31, 2021
Time: 11 AM
Watch live: Click here
About the session:
During this session, the students will interact with Prof. Leena Vachhani and her team who will guide the students to refine the technologies developed by them. Following the showcase of the innovations, the floor will be open for questions from school students attending the live event.
We will make this session live for school children studying in 9th to 12th standard on our YouTube channel. This is an ideal opportunity for any student with a knack to find technology-based solutions to India’s wide-ranging challenges that can be addressed by applying robotics, or IoT.
Registration:
You can register your school by writing to communication-psa@psa.gov.in with the subject “Registration for Innovation and Science @Bharat series - 3”.
Programme
Introduction
Video showcase of the robotics and IoT innovations developed by students
In Conversation with Prof. Leena Vachhani, IIT Bombay
Q&A with audience
Concluding remarks
About Salaam Bombay Foundation
The Salaam Bombay Foundation has trained students studying in government and government aided schools have developed simple technologies to minimise the risk of transmission of the SARS-CoV2 virus within the school premises. These students have been trained via Salaam Bombay Foundation’s Vocational Skills Programme in trades like Robotics, Home Appliance Repair and Mobile Repair.
Some of the technology solutions that have been developed and installed by the students at the school premises include the Automatic Hand Sanitiser Dispenser using IR Sensor Technology, Automatic Drinking Water Dispenser using IR Sensor Technology, Classroom Automation Motion with LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) and PIR (Passive Infrared) Sensor and IOT (Internet of Things) based Classroom Automation among others.
About the scientist
Prof. Leena Vachhani largely has two domains of interest: planning and control of autonomous vehicles and embedded control systems. She has also merged these two domains at various times and has been instrumental in developing two laboratories embedded control lab and Autonomous Robots and Multi-agent Systems (ARMS) lab. The research in the embedded control area concentrates on analysing the effect of different limitations of embedded platforms, when the embedded platform is used as a controller. The laboratory experiments are designed to provide hands-on experience on different limitations and their effect on the performance of a control system. Prof. Vachhani’s approach in solving autonomous robotic problems is more or less bottom-up, where she solves a problem considering the practical limitations of sensors, actuators and the environment. Solutions are verified with simulations and actual implementations. The implementation mostly targets an embedded platform. Her effort in this field is to establish expertise in real problems related to autonomous robotics.
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