Amrita IT Students win top IBM Prize [ 2007-03-28 ]

Mr.Paras Kumar, Mr. Harikrishna Menon, Mr. Pranay Mahulikar and Mr. Jenendra Jain (all students of III B.Tech Information Technology, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore) have emerged as the Runners-up in the "IBM Great Mind Challenge", a national level software development program. The award carries a citation, i-pods for all the team members and also a high-end IBM workstation for Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. Mr. J.Shrikrishnan, Senior Academy Instructor, CISCO Networking Academy at Amrita, guided the students for the project. This is a highly creditable achievement considering the fact that - Over 22000 students (7000 teams) participated all over the country and the Amrita team emerged as second best - The contest involved Web Application Development on J2EE platform using cutting-edge IBM technology

Microsoft International Project Award presented to Amrita University students

Microsoft, the world’s largest IT company has awarded the prestigious “Microsoft Best Project Prize” to Mr. Praveen Kumar R, Mr. Ragesh R Santhanam, and Mr. Srivathsan K, students of the Final year Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science and Engineering) at Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed University). The award, which carries a citation and cash prize of Rs. 75,000/-, was given for their project titled “iTRUST – An End to End Trust Based Model for Access Control”. The presentation was made at the “Microsoft Academic Projects” National level Expo held at Bangalore on 24th April 2006. They had carried out the project under the guidance of our distinguished staff Dr.Satya Sai Prakash, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engg. and their internal guides were Ms. Smitha and Ms.Gowri from the same department.

THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AND AMRITA UNIVERSITY HAS WON THE TOP PRIZE IN INDIA.

This is a highly creditable achievement considering the fact that

* Over 7000 projects were registered from 482 cities and towns all over India.

*The judges were drawn from the best academic institutions and industry in India like IIT-Bombay, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Microsoft.

*The public was also asked to rate the projects.AND This project proved best in all aspects.

AMRITA UNIVERSITY CONGRATULATES THEM ON THEIR SUCCESS AND WISHES THEM MANY MORE.

“iTRUST” is a project that enables control over the access to the resources such as printers, files, web access, email, database, etc., based on the human psychological notion of trust.

This international recognition to Amrita students speaks volumes of the academic excellence prevalent at Amrita University. The Undergraduate engineering programs in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical, Electrical and Polymer Engineering are on par with the best in India and abroad. With the
presence of members from premier industries and academia in the Board of Studies, the syllabus of the academic programs at Amrita University is continuously updated and structured to meet the ever-changing needs of the industry. The students are also exposed to projects in cutting-edge areas due to the presence of research centers of excellence in the fields of Computational Engineering, Cybersecurity, Microelectronics, Wireless Sensor networks and Environmental Science.

Mobile Robot – All Terrain Intelligent Robotic System

This project was selected for partial funding by Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST) among a host of entries. The work was presented a learned audience at an event oraganised by TNSCST on August 12th, 2006 at Kovilpatti and bagged the BEST PRESENTATION award. Mr.Unni Suresh presented the work on behalf of the team.

This mobile robot is an all terrain, intelligent, multi utility robot, that would be able to feel its environment with the use of a fusion of sensors including an onboard camera. This could be adapted to the fields of Defence (war field), Space Exploration, Disaster Management, Material Handling and also for Domestic purposes.

The mobile robot was done by students of 2002-2006 batch, Department of Production Engineering, Mr.Unni Suresh, Mr.Bhavadas and Mr.Kiran Menon, under the guidance of Mr.Sanjivi Arul, Assistant Professor.

Hope that the effort put in would be a source of inspiration and encouragement which will motivate the students to enter this fascinating world of Robotics.

Features Incorporated in A.T.I.R.S
- Wheel and Hexapod Leg mechanism for travelling through various terrains
- A second unit attached the leg mechanism can work as independent robot
- Powerful end arm with high speed chopper to remove the obstacles
- Quick response self powered gripper with geared motor with a gear ratio of 485:1
- Two link manipulator for material handling
- Infrared sensors for obstacle detection
- High Range Metal detectors to sense and avoid land mines
- A camera with oscillating actuator for improved view angle
- 27 MHz 4 channel radio frequency controller for wheel drive
- Wi-Fi systems for remote assistance and data exchange
- Onboard Computer
- PIC micro controller based to interface to realize the onboard computers instructions.

Several techniques from the field of Artificial intelligence, such as reinforcement learning, neural networks and genetic algorithms, can be implemented in order to improve its performance.