MIT Robocon Tech Team

MIT Teach Team
Founded 2007
Current season ABU Robocon 2014, India
Team history

Won 3 out of last 4 times Represented India 4 out of last 6 times

At least Semi finalist in past 8 years
Based in Pune
Colours Blue
Owner(s) MIT Pune
President Prof P. B. Joshi
Head coach Mrs Savita Kulkarni
Championships 2010, 2012, 2013
Division titles

Runner-up 2008 nationals, Misumi award International 2008, Semi-finalists at the nationals, 2010 National Winner, Best Innovative design 2010, Prof. Balakrishna Memorial award 2010, Semi-finalists 2011 nationals,Winner 2012, Fastest job completing robot Award 2012, Prof. Balakrishna Memorial Award 2012, Mabuchi Motor Award 2012 Internationals, Winner 2013 Robocon India,

Prof. Balakrishna Memorial Award 2013
Mascot We are born with the wings and we prefer to fly.
Website robocon.in

MIT Robocon Tech team is a Group of 28 engineering students of Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune from branches like E&TC, IT, Mechanical, Civil, Petrochem. They work systematically for a year before the competition Robocon India.

MIT Tech Team have represented India 4 times on international platform ABU Robocon in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013. That makes 4 times in last 6 years and 3 wins in last 4 years. It is the only team to play semifinals of national event consistently from 2007.

Team Structure

Manual Machine 2013
Robocon India 2010 Final Match

Team can be broadly classified into three groups according to their major contribution to team irrespective of their engineering curriculum.

Electronics Team

Circuit boards designing and development for different peripherals like LCD, keypad, encoders, sensors, h-bridge, motors, etc. Mostly they work with atmega1280, atmega32, atmega8 microcontrollers.The prominent team members in past couple of years are Prashant Konaje,Abhishek Desai from the hardware team and Sidharth Kulkarni , Monica Roman from the coding team.

Mech Team

As per problem statement machines are designed Catia, ProE followed by 3D simulation. This helps in calculating total weight and thus appropriate material for fabrication could be selected. Machine stability could also be predicted.

Different fabrication methods used by team are:

The active participation in CAD Designing of the robots was analysed by Shreekant Patnaik and Vivek Gupta. The hydraulics systems and their mechanisms were skillfully handled by Amarjeet Singh and Rajlaxami Bajpai in past couple of years.

Coding Team

Coding team has developed many libraries for various applications. They have also developed traction control and various navigation systems.

Achievements

Other Achievements

2013 Roboon India
2013 Roboon India

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Others

Consistent Performance since 2007:

No Indian Team has played so consistently in past 8 years (in a period when Indian robotics picked up a pace and robocon started getting a good competition)

History

Robocon India 2013

2013 Roboon India

The Theme for Robocon 2013 declared by Vietnam, "Green Planet". It was won by MIT Tech Team from MIT Pune.

This year team developed and used new holonomic drive system. Team used Mecanum wheel for manual and Omni wheel for auto robots. Which gave team advantage over other teams. there were many other new superior technologies used by team.

The National Robotic Contest for 2013 was conducted by MIT Academy of Engineering from 7 to 9 March 2013. The event was amply covered and broadcast by Doordarshan (Prasar Bharati of India).

Robocon India 2012

The Theme for Robocon 2012 declared by Hong Kong, "Peng On Dai Gat". It was won by MIT Tech Team from MIT Pune.[1] Robots faced some issues on the first two days of event. Robot main controller was getting reset. Bug was later identified and rectified.

MIT tech team had the fastest Manual robot with 5.5sec token time. Machines speeds were reduced with fastest time in the match was 1min 12sec whereas lab timings were 1min 04sec.

ABU Robocon Hong Kong 2012

Team beat China in preliminary rounds and qualified to quarters. MIT Tech Team became the first Indian team to complete theme in international Robocon. MIT Tech Team made very little structural changes to their machines. Lot of efforts were put on making robots reliable. Lab timing were 52sec with reliability of 96%.

Robocon India 2011

MIT Teach Team at Robocon 2011

The Theme for Robocon 2011 declared by Thailand was Krathong, Lighting Happiness with Friendship.

The winner was Institute of Technology, Nirma University coming from Ahmedabad.

MIT Tech Team introduced pneumatics for the first time in Robocon India history

Robocon India 2010

Robocon 2010 Winner: MIT, Pune

The Theme for Robocon 2010 declared by Egypt was Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids. It was won by MIT Tech Team from MIT Pune.[2]

MIT Tech Team didn't lose a single game in entire event. And cumulative score was higher than sum of all the other teams together.

ABU Robocon 2010

MIT Tech Team Represented India in ABU Robocon 2010, Egypt.

Robocon India 2009

Theme of Kago, the traditional Japanese palanquin, carried by human beings replaced by robots. It was won by IIT Chennai. MIT Tech Team for the first time made complete close loop robots. Every Actuation had a feedback back to machine. Making machines a true ROBOT.

Robocon India 2008

MIT Teach team at Robocon India 2008

The Theme for Robocon2008 declared by India was Govinda, a traditional Indian Deity who used to play earthly games by capturing Butter/Cheese from heads of Gopis. It was won by Institute of Technology, Nirma University. MIT Tech Team was runner-up. Both team got to represent India in ABU Robocon as host country gets to represented by two teams.[3]

MIT Tech Team was the first team to complete Robocon Theme in the history of Robocon India.

ABU Robocon 2008

MIT Tech Team with team Nirma represented India in ABU Robocon

Robocon India 2007

Inception of current MIT Tech Team. MIT Tech team is still continuing legacy and principals laid by 2007 team.

Robocon India 2006

MIT's first only student team of robocon India

Robocon India 2005

Dr Vishwanath D Karad, Founding Director General of MIT Group Pune bid for Robocon India to be hosted by MIT,pune. Thus MIT's first team was created jointly by teachers and students. They created a sturdy manual robot for the competition.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pune institute’s team wins Robocon 2012
  2. ↑ Host MIT makes the cut, wins Robocon prize
  3. ↑ NIT & MIT beat VIT and IIT in Robocon India

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