Workshop on Robotics

The e-Yantra Robotics Faculty Team of Department of  Electronics & Computer Science Engineering- ECS (formerly known as Electronics & Telecommunication Department- ETC) of Don Bosco College of Engineering organized a Workshop on Robotics for the Robotics Team on February 25, 2023. The purpose of the Workshop was to spread education in Robotics, so as to help students to participate for Technical Events and Competitions related to Robotics   The resource persons for the workshop were Mr. Gilferd Gonsalves, Mr. Maynard Gomes and Ms. Simmi Mhapsekar. The workshop was conducted in the Embedded Systems Lab and saw the participation of 20 students from FE ECS and SE and TE ETC.

The workshop started with a briefing from Prof. Flavia Leitao, on the various opportunities that the students are expected to seize from the various robotics competitions which will be held in the upcoming semester and therefore be prepared for the same.

The participants were then divided into three teams, in which one team concentrated on building the Line Follower bot, the second team the Robo-Soccer bot and third team was completely dedicated towards the software.

The Hardware team led by Mr. Gilferd Gonsalves, started off with building the Line follower and the Robo-Soccor. The chassis was designed and cut on the laser cutter. A brain storming session between the hardware team helped in identifying the different motors and other parts required.  The students had a great learning experience assembling, drilling and soldering all the parts together for the bot.

The Software team led by Mr. Maynard Gomes began working on the Line Follower code and looked into the different possibilities that needed to be taken care of. They had quite a few challenges when it came to coding the different possibilities, but later on figured it out with the expertise of the senior members of the team. They divided their task and worked in smaller groups and finally cracked the entire logic.

Finally the hardware and the software teams integrated their work to test the working of the two Bots. The Robo Soccor worked smoothly but the Line follower still offered some challenges that the team as a whole tried to get it working.

In the end, the team discussed about the different robotics competitions in which they could participate which would eventually help them to get better exposure of the trends on Robotics.  They discussed their plan of action for the coming semester and the different opportunities that they would need to look at to get better on their Robotics skills. The students had a great time learning while doing the Robots.