Rubik's cube solving robot, Exo-Skeleton robot, Haptic Science based robot and Satellite-GPS controlled robot. These are some of the projects that engineering students of select colleges can get involved with the coming of Centre for Robotics & Embedded Systems Excellence (CRESE). The CRESE is a concept of iCarnegie, powered by Carnegie Mellon University, and for which the university has tied up with Technophilia Systems with the aim of providing engineering students in India with a practical exposure that matches international standards.
Nine engineering institutions in the city have signed MoU for the CRESE and these are Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, J.B. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Aurora's Technological and Research Institute and Sri Indu College of Engineering & Technology, Lord's Institute of Engineering Technology, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Technology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology and Vidya Vikas Institute of Technology.
For the signing of the MoU on Friday, iCarnegie Vice-President, Ron Shell, Director, John Fedorek and Technophilia Systems Managing Director, Hiral Sanghavi were in the city.
According to them, the CRESE was launched with the objective of offering live experiments, real time projects, extensive research and training that has not been done by Indian campuses before. The enrolled student would get an exposure on taking up unique projects based on latest robotic applications.
Mr.Sanghavi said that the projects based on semester would include Rubik's cube solving robot which is a robotic system capable of solving a Rubik's cube in less than two minutes and Exo-Skeleton robot which is a robot suit that can be worn by a human for lifting extremely heavy weights.
Similarly, Haptic Science based robots are the ones which follows human body movements and with Satellite-GPS controlled robot, the students would work on a robot which can be controlled from anywhere in the world using GPS/Satellite.
“Robotics is a combination of mechanical, electrical and electronic apart from computer science. It is interdisciplinary and we provide common platform to teach high-end technology,” he said. Appropriate lab spaces would be set up for partnering institutes which would be accessible for students joining the CRESE. The membership fee was $100 (Rs.4,950) for six months and during this period, the students would get full access to all CRESE facilities. Eight different courses are offered and one course module per semester as the schedule.
According to Mr.Sanghavi, each course module was of 45 hours which include practical project development work based on curriculum certified by iCarnegie. The other features include live industrial project work and aggressive campus training during summer breaks and the students would be equipped to participate in leading national and international technical competitions.
At the end of each semester, the student member gets a CRESE course completion certificate and every year, best students would be chosen from partner colleges to weeklong iCarnegie's Global Scholars programme conducted in July at Carnegie Mellon University.
In the first phase of launch, 25 engineering institutes from across the country have signed for the CRESE and the target was to reach 100 partner colleges by July 2012.
