Surat: Adani engineering student wins national award in robotics

More than 1700 competitors from 372 teams from across India participated in the e-Yantra robotics competition at IIT Bombay. The AIIE team emerged victorious and won the National Championship title. Since 2018, AIIE of Gujarat has been placed in A category based on its performance in competition with over 500 institutes across the country.

Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (AIIE) has embarked on an extraordinary seven-month journey as four students, Kushal Mehta, Tatya Karia, Jisha Naik and Mohd Arsh Wahora, participated in the e-Yantra robotics competition. E-Yantra is a robotics outreach program organized by IIT Bombay and sponsored by the Ministry of Education.

The students were shortlisted among 1700+ participants from across India after a challenging elimination round that leveraged resources to hone technical and soft skills. Being declared the top 5 performers in the competition, he was made a contender to succeed the championship.

Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (AIIE) team

The efforts of the students to meet the challenge of the theme ‘Krishi Naav’ were remarkable. The topic is to build a robot that can navigate and harvest agricultural produce in the cities of the future. The team took advantage of their extensive knowledge of a number of robotics-related technologies, such as Gazebo, MoveIT, OpenCV and Git, a robot operating system, to create algorithms for the robot’s navigation perception and manipulation.

Apart from the students, the mentorship guidance of the faculty of AIIE has been commendable. Expressing happiness over the achievement of the students, Professor Anupam Kumar Singh, Principal, AIIE said, “Our institute strives to inculcate team spirit, analytical and logical approach in the students. This competition has provided a perfect platform to inculcate those qualities in our students. We are happy with their results.

IIT Bombay has been declared Grade A Institute since 2018 in recognition of the excellent effort of AIIE. With this AIIE has become the only educational institute in Gujarat. The team from Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering is the only representative from Gujarat to reach the finals after winning the national title.