 my name is Kavi Arya, I am faculty in the computer science department and I would like to spend just 10 minutes with you just explaining to you some work that we are doing here and how your engineering colleges could participate in this program. So essentially I teach a subject called embedded systems which is if you like a cross disciplinary subject which has a bit of mechanical engineering, lots of computer science and electronics and it and stuff like that. Basically it deals with computers where you do not see an explicit machine with a keyboard and stuff like that. So what is inside your mobile phone is an embedded system and so on. So we found that in trying to teach this through the distance education program it was very difficult because unless somebody has programmed a device where lights flash and things move they do not believe that they will learn anything. So over the last 5 years we came up with what we thought was a nice answer we thought that let us teach this through robotics and robotics become makes it even more exciting because in robotics you have to deal with mechanics and composite materials and electronics and software and so on. And also it reflects what the real world is out there because nobody tells you that here is a problem this is an electronics problem, this is a software problem, this is this problem. The problem is a problem and you have to solve it whichever way you want. Nowadays you do not get buys anymore. The time is ripe for somebody some entrepreneur to build a jadoopocha robot for 5000 rupees I will buy it. But most of our engineers out there do not think like that they will think can I buy it from abroad, net search karte rumba me le gaya, bot main gaya so it will not last in the Indian environment oh you cannot get it abroad, the end of problem. Very few people will say that hey let us build one here. So what we are trying to do is trying to create a culture of students who will actually get that mentality and say chalo let us build this or let us build that agriculture is another problem due to Enrega this rural employment guarantee scheme migrant labour is not available anymore. And agriculture has such hostile working environments it is a ripe place to have robots and robots need not be rocket science they can be simple jugadu kind of robots. So we are trying to spread these ideas and we found something which is very very effective in helping us do this it is a robot we called the firebird robot now we have given it a name and we have a project from MHRD which we have termed E Yantra where we are taking this robot and introducing it into engineering colleges. So people can use this kids can use this as a basis for projects and to make your teaching more interesting. So like for instance in our embedded cost last semester students did about a large number of projects. So I will just show you a small video of the sorts of things they do with this robot this is just a small robot that can sense distance and all that it can it follows white lines due to sensors below it actuation is through DC motors and you have various avatars of this robot the same brain sits on different actuation platforms one is just two wheels and the other is six legs instead of driving two DC motors we can drive up to 18 servo motors. So we can make a hexapod with six legs so this just shows you after introduction to the robot what these students can do with it and all the gyan that you need to actually program this robot we can deliver to you in a capsule form in two days if you know a little bit of microcontroller programming and if you know C programming we will teach you how to use this robot in two days. So at the moment our E Yantra project is call faculty give them a two day workshop send them back with a robot each and then they can start the culture there and then we are doing more things. So I will talk to you about that this project make the five word five in the pod write out shapes and letters now start with writing out the letter O so you can see that has written out the letter O and C these are the earlier items in which we have written the letter H E X. It is a start. We did a project called building a robot based super motion application. Here they built. In this project we designed various tasks for this. Now the head support will climb this obstacle and then perform various dance moves on the top of this obstacle. He climbs the stair right then they said there is something interesting when it goes on top there. So what is the interesting thing that it can do? Students you know that is what I understood. And then they want to reproduce that image on paper. So they capture an image, do image processing with MATLAB vectorize the image and use that vector to guide this little robot and then they built a small mechanical assembly to put down a pen and lift it and stuff like this so they can draw that. And I said that look to make it look more impressive use a image of something people can recognize. So they use a Ganpati very simple Ganpati here you know. So here as you can see they have drawn the Ganpati. Now what we are encouraging is for students to use previous batches of projects. So they can tilt the phone and guide the robot. The robot starts moving in the forward direction. We have made a hand gesture controlled wireless vehicle. Hand gesture. We mounted some sensors on the hand and we can control the robot. Using this globe. So I stopped you here. I won't take up too much of your time. So this is a three of about twenty projects that the students did in last. So about we have eighty students in the class, four to a project and they deliver twenty of these kind of projects. This one is a tennis ball collector robot. It takes an arm, does an image processing with a on board camera, goes and fits a ball. The robot scans for a blue basket. It looks for a blue basket and as soon as it sees a blue basket it will go towards it and draw. Fine. And what we are encouraging is for students to use previous projects and build on them. Normally I used to go to engineering colleges and we noticed that students want to do some robotic project. So they build the robot and by the time they built the robot. Time is over. And what you have is a half finished robot there and the next year somebody else wants to do a robotic project. Again he starts the same manjan and nothing to show for it at the end of it. So this we have turned the robot into a commodity item. So you can now buy the robot its open source everything and you can for us the challenges given this ball pen which is the robot. I want to write some interesting story. I can also take somebody else's story and make it even more interesting. So that is the whole thinking here. So I won't go into these slides of mine. So we have an Enther program where we have four stages. So if your college is interested in participating in this program we have just got a big pot of money from MHRD now. You can first become a participant. That means two of your colleagues can come here to attend a workshop. We will look after the local costs. That means putting you up for two days. Khaanapina this that and the other. And we will give you all the material teaching material everything when you go back. So you can over two days learn how to use this. We will try you to know only programming and a bit of microcontroller programming. Next step if you want to advance this more. We can make you an associate which means that you will host this workshop at your college and you will invite the local colleges, the faculty and all that to the workshop and our team will come and teach. And we will pay all the costs. Putting them up Khaanapina everything. Third is that you can become a remote center where you will teach, you will organize, you will do everything and we will fund all the expenses for it. So we can also bring you into this program as a participant where if you want some seed funds to build a new kind of robot or do some interesting research or develop some new cost material. If somebody has got control system knowledge and he wants to use this robot in a control systems course. If he is willing to invest time we will give them an honorarium which can be worked out. And if you are a local coordinator organizing the workshop we will give you a bit of honorarium there also. And we encourage you to have these, to hold these workshops for students to start student clubs and we can work out the details of this. But this is what this project is all about. To spread this culture, to create a national cadre of people who can build interesting machines. So any questions I will stop here. I think I have taken enough time. Go and tell your friends about it. That is why I am telling you. Email ID is eantra, e-yantra. Let me see if it is in this. Yeah, just go to e-yantra.org, o-r-g. e-yantra.org. Is it on? e-yantra.org or e-yantra.ic.itb.ac.in. My name is Kavi Arya in CAC department. And kavi.arya is my own email address in case you need to contact me and not receiving a response or whatever it is. But through the e-yantra website you will get everything. In fact all the projects we have done to date, we have packaged them nicely, put all the documentation, source code, video, everything is up on the website. So to seed these things in your own colleges. Any questions? So tell your friends about us and hopefully we can do something interesting together. I will stop here. Thanks.