The Electrical Dept. of COEP organised a line following competition, PROLINE,
as part of their annual technical fest NEXUS. We won the competition with a
best track time of 43 secs as against 53 secs for the second prize and 57
for the third.
Shown below is a video from
one of the practice runs!
Pratham:
Workshop on Basic Autonomous robotics
Recenctly, we (Vineet B., Shriram, Amey B., Amey D., Kapeesh and me)
conducted a two-day workshop on Line follower and obstacle avoider using AVR
ATMega16 microcontroller. This was conducted as a part of the Robot Study
Circle activities.
The workshop saw 12 teams of four members participate most of them from the
SE. The hands-on part included building the chassis and soldering the
circuit of the bot. Basics of electronics in robotics were discussed. The
study of the AVR microcontrollers was covered in detail along with the
programming aspect of it. At the end of the day, a few participants wrote
their first microcontroller program which was the main aim!
You can see some of the pics from the workshop
here !
Instrufiesta, COEP:Won
the third prize !!!
The Instrumentation Dept. of our college had recently organised a line
follower competition. The track consisted of right angle turns, sharp bends,
a blank-out portion and bonus patches. We reconfigured
HIMESH a bit and
entered the competition. Managed to win the third prize !!!
The event saw a large no. of entries with the bulk from the Robot Study
Circle. All the three prizes went to the RSC members!!!
IEEE -RAIT:
The problem statement competition had the machine traversing a grid and
taking turns depending on whether there was a mirror before the junction or
not (right turn for mirror present and left for absent). After the line got
over after the third run the parity of the no. formed by the presence of
mirrors is to be displayed (odd parity = Red LED ; even parity = Green LED).
Only three teams participated in the event and only one could complete it.
Unfortunately our machine worked well in practice but showed unexpected
behaviour during the timed runs.
The video below is of one of the practice runs - three mirrors = three right
turns = odd parity = Red LED
