Seminar On Robotics
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About the Seminar
IIITM-K in association with Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala and IETE, Trivandrum Chapter is organizing a half day programme on Robotics Demo at Travacore Hall, Technopark, Trivandrum on 23 February, 2008 by a team of National University of Singapore headed by Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat.
These Robotics are developed in the research lab of Electical and Computer Science Dept of NUS and the team will showcase various Robots, its functioning, design and implementation.
Date & Time
23 February, 2008 , 2.30-4.30 PM
Venue
Travancore Hall,
Park Center,
Technopark,
Thiruvananthapuram.
Speaker
Assistant Professor,
Department Of Electrical,
National University Of Singapore,
Singapore.
Dr. Vadakkepat, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore is the founder secretary of the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association [FIRA: www.fira.net] and currently its General Secretary. He is also the founder director and chief mentor to an entrepreneurial start-up �Robhatah Robotic Solutions”�at Singapore [www.robhatah.com]. His initiative among others includes an international conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems [1] which is being held successfully since 2001. He was the general chair to the FIRA RoboWorld Cup and Congress 2005 which was held in Singapore [2].
Dr. Vadakkepat is an associate editor of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. His Humanoid robot and robot soccer teams have consistently won several international prizes. The latest include first prize and overall championship in Humanoid robot soccer at the FIRA Robot World Cup (Germany 2006, Singapore 2005 and Austria 2003), First Prize (open category) in Singapore Robotic Games (2004) and Second prize in FIRA 2004 (first Prize was won by a robot sold by his start-up Robhatah).
He was elected as the Secretary to the IEEE Singapore Section for the year 2005. He has served as Technical Activity Coordinator to the IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) in 2001-2002. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India.
He is also actively involved in various technical forums including conferences, symposia and robotic competitions. He has been featured in several prominent newspapers and TV shows in India, Singapore, USA, Korea, Spain and France.
Dr. Vadakkepat received his M.Tech and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in 1989 and 1996 respectively. He was a Lecturer at the Regional Engineering College Calicut, India from 1991 to 1996. While pursuing Post-Doctoral studies at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, 96-98), he was awarded the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) fellowship. Since 1999, he is with the National Univ. of Singapore.
His research interest include Distributed robotic systems, Humanoid robotics, Biomorphs, Neuro-Fuzzy Controllers and Intelligent Control techniques and, has publications in several leading international journals.
Accompanying Members are Mr. Ng Buck Sin and Mr. Hong Choo Yang
Target Audience
Students of IIITM-K, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Other Department students of University of Kerala, Neighbouring Engineering college students and interested faculty and Industries. The interested participants may register in free of cost using the on-line submission given in the link.
About The Seminar
The Robots to be showcased during the seminar are:
GeNUS Humanoid
The capabilities of GeNUS are
- Dancing
- Recovering
- Goalkeeping
- Balancing on One Leg
- Soccer Playing
- Picking up object
- Throwing
MicroBot
To develop basic platforms (small size, light weight and inexpensive platform) for surveillance. For safe surveillance of unknown territory, each robot carries out specific task in a coordinated fashion.
BioMorph
Biomorphic robotics is a sub-discipline of robotics focused upon emulating the mechanics, sensor systems, computing structures and methodologies used by animals. In short, it is building robots inspired by the principles of biological systems.
Spoke Wheel Robot
Can negotiate on uneven terrains.
