AKTU Project in Robotics (MNRB801) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Minor Degree in Robotics

Course Objectives

To assimilate the theoretical knowledge gained in the lecture courses (ROB- 1 to 4) for real-life practical applications in order have effective learning and skill-development, mainly, from the point of view of the employability in industries.

Course Content

This course is a project type. The plan of conducting this course is given below:

1. Participants will be divided into teams of two/four members within first week of the starting of the course by the course coordinators/managers depending on the number of participants registered in the course. The benefits of such team-based projects are listed in the Course Outcomes below.
2. The teams will have a team coordinator or leader, which will be identified by the coordinators/managers of the course (may be the first name in the list of a student team).
3. The projects could be of the following types: a. Literature search (LS) type: Studying about an aspect of robotics, say, vision, robot kinematics, dynamic, controls, etc. b. Algorithm development (AD) type: Analyse, say, a robot kinematics using RoboAnalyzer or Matlab/Octave/Freemat/Scilab or similar software or write an algorithm using any programming language (Python, etc.). For example, writing forward kinematics of a robot or image processing in Vision. c. Design/synthesis (DS) type: Proposing a new type of system/device for performing certain task. For example, a mobile robot for Covid-19 isolation wards.
4. The teams will be asked to contact their team members within a week and decide their topic with two weeks, i.e., within first 3 weeks of the starting of the course.
5. Students MUST spend about 6 hours in a week to discuss their progress together, study together or individually, write programmes, fabricate circuits, etc.
6. During the one lecture hour the coordinators will explain how to do literature survey, how to find the sources of hardware, which software to use for a particular purpose, how to select an electric motor, etc., present case studies, etc.
7. At the end of the course duration, each team will submit no more than 10 slides in .pdf file and/or not more than a video of one min to showcase their project hardware/software/plots, etc. generated during the project to a cloud (say, Google Drive).
8. Evaluation: It will be done in two parts a. Peer Evaluations (20%): Presentations in .pdf will be evaluated (online) by two other teams and grade them b. Expert evaluation (80%): A presentation of 3 mins. plus, Q&A in a common session.

Text Books

Since it is a project type, some experience sharing books and links to similar activities are listed.

1. Chuhan, M., and Saha, S.K., 2010, Robotics Competition Knowledge Based Eduation in Engineering, Pothi.com
2. Baun, M., and Chaffe, J., 2018, Engineering and Building Robots for Competitions, Amazon.com Corresponding Online Resources:
3. http://www.ddrobocon.in/
4. http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/6.095/

Course Outcomes

The outcomes are envisaged as follows:

1. Each participant will know students from other colleges/states and their work ethics/culture.
2. To Practice how to work together in a team. An essential skill in an industry.
3. To apply the theoretical knowledge learnt from other courses, which is required by an industry.
4. To learn how to make presentation in a team. A soft skill needed in research and industry.
5. Peer learning from the evaluation of other teams’ work. A skill which is essential when one is in a workforce.
6. To examine different hardware components and their working/control using software.