Mission ADR

One of the biggest achievement of my college life has been the project ADR i was part of. Here i'll be descibing how it all began....

Mission ADR(Autonomous Defence Robot) was started by 3 of our seniors Varun Jewalikar(2K6 COE), Chandan Kumar(2K6 Civil) and Ankit Agarwal(2K6 Production Engg.). The aim was to build the robot to take part in TechX challenge being organised by Defence Science and Technology Agency(DSTA), Singapore government in 2008. They had registered the team as 'Team DCE' and wanted team extension when we joined the college in August 2007. Interviews were held in the college on 6th september,2007. Candidates were interviewed by the three students and the faculty advisors D.S Nagesh sir and M. Kulkarni sir. The results came out on 24th September and me and my brother(Akhil) were amongst those selected. We were called to room no. IW-FF16 where we later set-up our CEAR(Center for Excellence in Advanced Robotics) lab. Ankit was responsible for Image Prosessing, Chandan for Mechanical Systems and Varun for Electronics and Computer Programming. We were to work with Varun.
The work started after our 1st sem mid-sem papers. Akhil and i were first given the task of studying Assembly language. We studied '8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems' by Mazidi. We started 8051 uC programming. Then we moved on to make Autonomous line follower. By October we had well settled in the team and the progress was good. I hope to follow this up with more on subsequent posts.