IORTA Sponsorship Brochure 2015 about Team IORTA is a student-run robotics team in BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus. Passionate students from various discipline of engineering like mechanical, electrical, electronics and computer science come together with innovative ideas to take robotics to the next level. With the vision to take the complexities upon themselves to give the human race, simplified yet sophisticated robots, is the unified aim of this group. Under the guidance of our great mentor, Dr. Udaya Kumar, who has a profound mechanical background and a vision for the group, the group is confident of achieving heights in the field of robotics. The team aims at four aspects: • Making autonomous robots to accomplish various day-to-day tasks. • Making autonomous robots to compete in autonomous robot challenges. • Making autonomous multipurpose robot that can be used from serving the common crowd to the most highly reputed organizations for even the most detailed and specific task. • Conducting workshops at various instances to impart knowledge and skill to talented students and make it a great hands-on learning experience to understand practicality. timeline IORTA was founded in year 2012. 2013 • Ranked 1st in UAE and represented it in iARC (international autonomous robotics challenge) 2013. • Ranked 8th all over the world in iARC (International Autonomous Robotics Challenge) held at IIT-Kanpur, India, 2013. 2014 Ranked 5th all over the world in iARC (international autonomous robotics challenge) held at IIT-Kanpur, India, 2014. The event focuses on solving a line maze via line following, one of the very basic yet extremely important concept of robotics, and calculate the shortest path in the maze. In addition to that bot has to negotiate with an arena full of obstacles in short obstacle avoidance and negotiation with the environment. Participants from various countries would participate in a country specific qualifying round, and the winning teams from the countries would be given entry to the Grand Finale of the iARC to be held during Techkriti ’14. 2014 Ranked 4th at an ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) event Student Design Competition for demonstrating a Piloted flight of Quadcopter that implemented forest fire control in 2014. Design a small UAV to carry a cargo through two gates, see below, drop a payload and return to the starting point. This is an initial proof of concept prototype. You must design and build, at a minimum, the propulsion and control system for the UAV yourself. You cannot purchase and modify an existing commercially available vehicle. The device must be able to maneuver around and through obstacles, change height, and pass through a hoop for sizing. 2015 - IARC The International Aerial Robotics Competition is the longest running collegiate aerial robotics challenge in the world. Entering its third decade of advancing the state of the art in autonomous aerial robotic behaviour, the competition continues to tackle challenges that are currently impossible for any flying robots owned by government or industry. The primary purpose of the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) has been to "move the state-of-the-art in aerial robotics forward" through the creation of significant and useful mission challenges that are ‘impossible’ at the time they are proposed, with the idea that when the aerial robotic behaviours called for in the mission are eventually demonstrated, the technology will have been advanced for the benefit of the world. Mission 7 will challenge teams to demonstrate three new behaviours that have never been attempted in any of the past six IARC missions. First, "interaction between aerial robots and moving objects (specifically, autonomous ground robots). Second, navigation in a sterile environment with no external navigation aids such as GPS or large stationary points of reference such as walls. Third, interaction between competing autonomous air vehicles. 2015 - SDC (ASME) Delivering aid, including clean water, food, fuel, and medical supplies to places, such as the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, is a difficult task, as transporting bulk materials over uneven and rough terrain, in tight spaces, and over long distances is often required to help those in need. This year’s challenge is to design and develop a scaled-down version of a transporter capable of delivering granular materials, which will be guided by, at most, one person. The competition course is designed to capture the various challenges that a vehicle might see in the real world. As such, the granular material delivered needs to be “edible” once delivered, and therefore neither damaged nor contaminated. 2015 - Techkriti ’15 (hosted by IIT Kanpur) Shuffle and iARC (Robogames) requires autonomous ground bots that can perform desired tasks via methods of image processing which will be incorporated through simulation in MATLAB. Team IORTA is going to be competing in these prestigious challenges and is certain of demonstrating the required behaviour of the robots based on challenge needs. team strategies • We have used the open source robotics frameworks ROS (Robot Operating System) to set up simulation environments and SLAM packages for quadrotors. These will be useful for implementing high level programs for navigation and perception. • We have built two quadrotor UAVs to test code on. The smaller quadrotor is robust to crashes, which makes it a good platform to test changes to core flight code. The larger quadrotor can carry a heavier payload, which makes it ideal for testing additional sensors. • We propose to develop a set of applications in Python for plotting sensor data and controlling the quadrotor from a computer. We can integrate our quadrotor with Arduino boards for returning telemetry to the ground station, reading from sensors, and sending user commands to the flight controller board as a supplementary support to the decision making via artificial intelligence. in news UAE students focused on finding workable uses for drones - TheNational | UAE DUBAI// They’re small, high-tech, and, if you’re smart enough to build a really useful one that can be put to use in the UAE, it could bag you a cool Dh1 million. The country’s inventors are buzzing with ideas to create the next generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or remote-control drones, spurred on by advances in technology and the cash prize offered as part of Dubai government’s Drones for Good Award. The potential day-to-day civilian uses of drones are vast, with developers’ ideas ranging from traffic surveillance, package deliveries and even walking the family dog, all controlled by a smartphone app. The competition’s local judges, however, will be looking for more practical benefits for health, education, civil defence, transport and tourism that can be up and running within 12 months. Civilian drone technology is still in its infancy but is expected to become a major manufacturing sector in the future. In the meantime, creating a UAV capable of delivering on inventors’ promises means fulfilling several difficult criteria. “Above all, it must be capable of handling different climate conditions equally effectively, like no wind, light wind, strong wind, heavy rain, etc,” said Anton Gavrailov, co-founder of Flyver, a Bulgarian company that helps programmers to develop software for drones. “What will make a difference in the drones will be the software.” But the technology is there and is becoming cheaper and more accessible, said Mr Garailov, who added that drone apps are at the beginning of their development cycle and in time will become just as simple and as popular as smartphone apps to programme. “From a software perspective, developers need to learn proprietary low-level development interfaces to control the drone. This trend can be observed in many areas of customer electronics and hardware,” he said. “You need to be a real geek, a motivated geek, to overcome this barrier.” But that has not deterred students from entering the contest. A team of five from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Dubai, have already developed remote-controlled aerial and land bots for previous contests. “We plan to upgrade our bot to a completely autonomous drone for the contest,” said Yashaan Cooper, a second-year electronics and communication-engineering student. “Our bot now is pilot controlled. But we will upgrade it to make it completely based on artificial intelligence. We want to give something back to society. We want to take it to the next level and contribute to the Dubai government.” Mr Cooper, 20, said their new drone would cost at least Dh15,000 to develop and could be used for navigation, exploration, traffic updates and to deliver parcels. “If the government wants to deliver a small parcel, it can be done securely and with the use of fingerprints. Ours will be an integrated drone that can store data and can be linked to Google Images.” He said the team were looking for sponsors to fund their project. The remote-controlled drone weighs 1.8kg, costs Dh4,000 and took six weeks to develop. As well as the local award, an international prize of US$1 million (Dh3.67m) is also up for grabs that will recognise the best ideas for using drones in the next one to three years, focusing on delivering government services in remote areas and even providing relief during disasters. The finalists will present their UAVs in Dubai at the Government Summit 2015, in February. For details visit www.dronesforgood.ae. http://www.thenational.ae/uae/technology/uae-students-focused-on-finding-workable-uses-for-drones support us Team IORTA from the BITS Pilani, Dubai is a unique organisation on campus that will gives students who are a part of the group, the value and enjoyment in the construction of aerial robots while teaching them valuable skills in engineering and computer science. Our team will be very grateful for the support to help us achieve our goals. platinum: AED 30,000 • Aerial Robot foiling with company logo and design • ︎Company logo and tagline on team website, t-shirts, banners • ︎Prominent mention of the company during all demonstrations • ︎Company name in media coverage • ︎Company listed as lead sponsors in media advertisements gold: AED 20,000 • ︎Company logo and tagline on team website, t-shirts and banners • ︎Company listed as associate sponsor in media advertisements • ︎Company name in media coverage • ︎Prominent visibility of company logo on the robot silver: AED 10,000 • Company name in media coverage • Company listed as associate sponsor in media advertisements • ︎Company logo and tagline on team website, t-shirts and banner contact Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Dubai Campus Dubai International Academic City Dubai, UAE www.iorta.org [email protected] +971529869037 linkedin.com/company/iorta https://www.facebook.com/IORTArobotics “all it takes is all you’ve got.” IORTA www.ioRta.org
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