Introduction to Robotics and basics of Robot Design.

This will be an introductory session for the participants to get familiarized with the robotics Industry. The session will deal with types of robots and their applications, main elements of a robotic system, and basic theory behind the design of robots.

Building wired and wireless manually guided Robots.

In this session the students will be making manually controlled wired and wireless robots with the communication link between the user and the robot being a RF remote control working at 40MHz. Students will learn about the robot motion control in this session.

Basics of Electronic circuits and sensors.

Students will be acclimatized with bread-boarding techniques and designing standard electronic circuits used for controlling and driving motors like PWM generation, H-Bridge and Transistors. They will also learn about using sensors like ultrasound transducers and infrared sensors and their connections in this session.

Implementing simple Digital and Analog electronic circuits.

This session will give the students deep understanding about robot electronics and their importance in engineering courses. The students will be given high end equipments like function generators and DSOs to design and test circuits made by them. The basic electronic circuits like op-amps and 555 and different logic Gates and their applications in robotics will be discussed in details.

Basics of Motors and speed control of motors.

This session will start with the introduction to different types of motors like Simple DC motors, Stepper motors, Servo Motors. Later the students will be given hands on experience with high power motors and interface them with the circuits made by them in previous sessions. Speed control of motors using PWM will also be discussed.

PCB Designing and Soldering techniques.

The session will start with assembling of all the circuits made by the students in the previous sessions and later they will be made to integrate the circuits made during the course and fabricate the PCB. Soldering the PCB will also be shown to the participants giving them a practical experience of how PCBs are made.

Building simple autonomous Robots using discrete hardware.

Autonomous robots are difficult to be made without programming and microcontrollers. In this session, the participants will be familiarized with integrating discrete electronic circuits and making the circuits to perform logical operations and take decisions as a microcontroller, making simple autonomous robots without microcontrollers.

Introduction to Microcontrollers and programming.

This session is designed keeping in mind the growing need of automation and its applications. The main focus will be on Microchip’s PIC family of microcontrollers and its programming. The students will be given high-end programming tools and microcontrollers for getting hands on experience of embedded programming. Digital Signal Processors will be discussed.

Interfacing of peripherals to microcontrollers.

In this session, peripherals of a microcontroller will be discussed. The session will start with the students writing basic programs of blinking LEDs and Using I/O ports, taking inputs and displaying outputs will be shown. Use of simulators for debugging the programs will also be shown.

Building autonomous Robots capable of performing more complex tasks.

Autonomous robots design will be discussed in this session. This session will start with the designing of a Line Following Robot which is a robot capable of following a given line. Later it will be explored with implementing obstacle avoidance along with line following.

Robotics Competition at the end of the course.

A robotics competition will be held at the end of the robotics course to test the student’s caliber of learning and making circuits work with perfection. Prizes will be awarded to the best robots.

The Robotics workshops, organized at NITS Mirza are one of its kind, providing students the opportunity to learn hands-on, the 'Art of Robotics'.
The workshop involves a step by step practical approach to designing and making various electronics and communication systems required to create autonomous and guided robots. The Lab is well equipped with over 50 robotic platforms on which students can design and implement circuits for vehicle guidance, navigation, collision detection etc.

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