A ‘Quadcopter Drone,’ a remotely-controlled mini helicopter to capture live aerial video, designed and developed by a group of students from the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, National Institute of Technology, has won the Best Student Project Award in a competition conducted by the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development and Incubation (CEDI) of the NITT in association with Sonata Software, Bangalore.
The best project competition for final year B.Tech and MCA students was organised to encourage innovation under a MoU signed between CEDI and Sonata Software.
The Quadcopter Drone can be used for search and rescue, fire fighting, law enforcement, military and news reporting application. The team won the first prize carrying a cash prize of Rs.10,000, according to a NITT press release.
Another group of students from Department of Computer Science and Engineering demonstrated their project ‘Snek,’ a domain specific language for programming distributed systems embedded in Python to win the second prize carrying a cash reward of Rs.5,000.
S.Sundarrajan, Director, NITT distributed the prizes. Speaking on the occasion, Usha Srikanth, Vice President Technology, and Sharat Hegde, Head-Solution Architecture, Sonata Software, judged the event.
The Directors of CEDI, A.K.Bakthavatsalam, Professor, Training & Placement, G.Lakshminarayan, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, and SR.Balasundaram, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Applications, NIT-T were also present.
