Wired for success

Ruchi Jindal and Shubhang Tripathi ,third year electronics and telecommunication students’ electronic voting machine was the most outstanding. “We made a working model of the voting machine very similar to the one that will be used,but simpler,easier and with a less budget. It took us around three months,” adds Jindal.

With a range of innovations including GPS tracking devices,RSID based tracking devices,out of sight firing systems and so on the event was initiated by professor Khot with the college further planning to conduct it at a national level. While Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) and Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) bagged the first and the second prize respectively in the working model category; SAE won both the prizes in poster category in addition to a special prize.

Working over an year under the guidance of DRDO Paroma Dutta,Astha Singh and Rachit Jain’s -Unmanned vehicle localisation using odometric censors bagged the first prize in the poster competition. Explaining the project Dutta adds,“Computed on real time it is an alternative to GPS and determines the location of vehicle with respect to the reference position. It predicts the distance and direction by monitoring the vehicle over any terrain. An absolutely new concept based on odometry which finds the actual position and orientation of the robot,on measurement of angles and rotation of the rear wheels. It can be used,where satellite link is inaccessible like tunnels,forests and mountains.”