REPORT OF ONLINE PROGRAMME ON ‘AERIAL ROBOTICS: DESIGNING FOR BEGINNERS’

The Department  of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda-Goa, under the banner of Don Bosco Electronics and Telecommunication Society (DBEATS) in collaboration with InfiCorridor Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai organized an Online four day programme on ‘Aerial Robotics : Designing for Beginners’ using Autodesk Fusion 360. It was conducted from June 16 – 19 , 2020 from 4pm to 6 pm. The sessions were conducted online using Microsoft Teams platform.

Aerial robotics is an outlet of the core branch of robotics involving design, construction, operation, and use of aerial robots, in simple words, robots that fly. A wide array of potential applications exists for robots that have the level of mobility offered by its flight. The military applications of aerial robotics include surveillance, targeting, and even strike missions, whereas its civilian applications are remote sensing, disaster response, image acquisition, surveillance, and transportation.

This webinar series was organized under the capacity building and training initiative of InfiCorridor Solutions for college students, having the main objective of  developing skills among students to design and create an Aerial Robotics model by assembling various components by applying the basics of design and systems engineering. The workshop covered the following concepts:

1. Designing the components from scratch
2. Assembling the components to create a model
3. Basics of Design and Systems Engineering
4. Rendering and Animating the models
5. Basics of Simulation using Finite Element Analysis

The resource persons for the sessions were Mr. Yash Turkar, Mr. Christo Aluckal and Mr. Sumedh G. Deshpande, all part of the Research and Development Team at InfiCorridor Solutions. Their team, under the direction of Dr. Yogesh Agarwadkar, with several years of experience in research and development, specialises in state-of-the-art technological solutions.

In total, 58 participants from different cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmednagar, and Verna attended the event. The participants showed keen interest in the sessions and submitted the components that they designed after learning from the workshop which showed the effectiveness of the workshop. This online workshop was coordinated by Dr. Varsha Turkar and Prof. Deron Rodrigues.