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Robot Enhanced Teaching
in Engineering Colleges
Phase 2
e-Yantra Team
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Bombay
Sponsored by MHRD through National Mission on Education through ICT
(NMEICT)
• Introduction to e-Yantra (see video here) – Robot Enhanced teaching in Engineering colleges – Empowering Engineering teaching – Through “Project Based Learning”
• Embedded Systems at IITB (CS684) – Automatic Fruit Sorter machine (6 week course project) – Open source project (starting point for other students) – See video here
• e-Yantra Robotic Competition (attract students) – See video here
• e-Yantra Robotic Teachers Competition (eYRTC) – See video here
• Tamil Nadu story –Shri Jayant Kumar (IAS), Commissioner Tech. Education, TN – See video here
Outline
Rapidly (exponentially) growing economy
– Huge demand for products + services + automation
– Indigenous invention => 1/8 of import cost
–What is required???? – More engineers to build innovative solutions
Education is core + Educational infrastructure +
– ……NMEICT …. e-Yantra!!!
India 2020: Urgent Needs
Mission
Enabling Embedded systems education in engineering colleges across India in a scalable and sustainable manner.
e-Yantra Stakeholder
e-Yantra initiatives
Students Colleges Teachers
e-Yantra Lab setup initiative
Competitions
Robotics Competition
Ideas Competition
Workshops
Projects and Internships
Robotics teacher
competition
Workshops
e-Yantra – Stake-holders and Initiatives
State wise team registration :
Participants Team
Day wise team registration Day wise Participants registration
: 8
: 3
: 129
: 472
: 350
: 189
: 81
: 29
: 3
: 18
: 52
: 5
: 36
: 48
: 14
: 20
: 4
: 22
: 8
: 32
: 25
: 26
Registration Statistics Total number of registrations:
Teams : 1,581
Participants : 6,324
e-Yantra Robotics Competition – 2013 : Registration Statistics
e-Yantra Robotics Competition - 2014: Registration Statistics
State wise team registration:
Day wise Participants registration Day wise team registration
Registration Statistics
Total number of registrations: Teams :
3,107 Participants : 12,428
(1029) (105)
(73) (54)
(252) (36)
(179) (627)
(13)
(47) (115)
(246)
(78) (51)
(10) (85) (19)
(10) (16)
(6) (10)
(10) (10) (19)
Fire Bird Educational Robot
Features: • Incorporates 5 years experience teaching Embedded Systems at IIT-Bombay
• Low-cost
• Open source design
• Modular & versatile
• Excellent documentation
• Good for teaching/research
• Extensive software support
Infra-red proximity sensor (millimetre accurate)
LCD display
μProcessor daughterboard (8081/ Atmega 2560/ ARM7
White line sensors (below)
New (low-cost): SPARK V $50
Students
Colleges Teachers
Goal : Create infrastructure Align course +project
outcomes with practicals
Goal : Train in theory + hands-on project Provide methodology for Project
Based Learning (PBL)
Mentor students
e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC)
Goal : Practical orientation Innovative BE Projects
e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI)
e-Yantra Robotic Teacher Competition (eYRTC)
Seeding labs: Robotic kits given to colleges
• Empower teachers • Provide innovation platform
Features: • Open source design
• Excellent documentation
• Support from vendor(s)
• Extensive software support
Target:
500 e-Yantra labs
In 3 years (51 complete, 65 in progress)
e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) – A 3-pronged approach for colleges
LAUNCHING LABS AND STUDENT PROJECTS
WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS
e-Yantra Robotics Teacher competition
INFRASTRUCTURE SET-UP
• Organized at a Nodal Center – for nominated teams from each college
• e-Yantra conducts workshops and provides support
• College commits the funds and space
• e-Yantra provides a starter Robots kit and expert advice to set up a Robotics lab
• college provides its teams with required infrastructure
• e-Yantra conducts the competition and provides support to teams during the competition.
e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) Focus: Hands on training for Teachers across various
regions of the country in a scalable manner through Nodal Centers (NCs).
e-Yantra
C1 C2 Cn …… C1 C2 Cn …… C1 C2 Cn ……
. . . . . NC1 NC2 NCn
Scalability & sustainability:
Student projects require trained
teachers and infrastructure
Both established in colleges in 4
months – making each
college self sufficient!!!
What we need:
•Colleges as Nodal Centers
•e-Yantra labs in Colleges
• Pilot phase 16 Mumbai University colleges inaugurated Robotics labs on April 5, 2013
• Expansion phase
35 colleges inaugurated Robotics labs on April 11, 2014 in the following regions: – Delhi – Shimoga, Karnataka – Ichalkaranji, Maharashtra – Chandigarh, Punjab – Alandi, Maharashtra
65 colleges are participating in the current phase of eYRTC-2014:
– Chennai, Coimbatore Salem, Trichy, Tamil Nadu – Noida – Kolkata
Targeted number of colleges: 100 in one year 500 in the next two years
Current status
Current Status
16 labs in Mumbai – Pilot Phase (5th, April 2013)35 labs across 5 regions – Phase-1 (14th, April 2014)
63 labs across 6 regions – Phase-2 (ongoing )
Many more … in pipeline
e-Yantra Symposium Bringing Together the e-Yantra family of colleges
Sustained Engagement with e-Yantra
Website: www.e-yantra.org email: [email protected] Original Letter of Intent (LoI) should be sent to: Project Manager ERTS Lab Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076