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Teaching robotics in class!!!


The Electronics & Robotics Club at BITS-Pilani, Goa took up an initiative to teach people about image processing based robots and competitions. This was one area of robotics where the campus wasn’t up to the mark (relatively… compared to the mechanical and microcontroller based robots).

This was partially because of way expensive workshops by professionals. Would you pay Rs. 4,000 (per person, for a team of 4) to learn image processing and building robots that use image processing. I don’t think so. Thus the initiative.

We came up with a custom workshop, named the RoboCV workshop. Complete with lectures and a give away kit. We surveyed various online shops and figured out who was selling individual parts the cheapest. So batteries were from ThinkLabs while the motors were from Visha Electronics, and so on. And thus the kit was mixed and matched for optimal price.

And it cost around Rs. 800 (per person) for a team of 4. Compare this with Rs. 4,000/person (for a team of 4). HUGE difference :D

And the lectures were to be given by us… so they were free :) The lectures have been going on for the past four days. They’ve been great. We’ve covered these topics in detail: image processing concepts, electronics, and coding in Matlab & OpenCV.

I think we’ve had more than 20 hours of lectures+”practicals” till now. And one session still remains. They’ve been given time till Monday to write code about what they’ve learned. And then they’ll test their code on an arena and we’ll guide them about where there can be improvements, etc.

It seems we’ve motivated quite a lot of people to work on IP robotics! I hope other clubs also follow us and get into the teaching aspect as deep as we did :D

PS: I’ll be uploading the slides on my website, just in case you’re interested :)


I’ve put up the entire set of slides. You can download the slides! Leave me a comment/contact me if you find these helpful :)

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This entry was posted on January 15, 2010, 11:32 pm and is filed under Weblog, Work. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

  1. #1 by Naveen on January 16, 2010 - 8:03 am

    oh wow man . . . ur mom n me are really impressed . .

  2. #2 by Utkarsh on January 16, 2010 - 6:37 pm

    :)

  3. #3 by Vipul Agarwal on January 16, 2010 - 7:57 pm

    Wow! :)
    Give me the motors and microcontroller. =)

  4. #4 by Utkarsh on January 17, 2010 - 11:17 am

    heh.. sure :P

  5. #5 by yagnesh on January 27, 2010 - 11:22 pm

    waiting for the slides

  6. #6 by Utkarsh on January 28, 2010 - 6:39 am

    @Yagnesh: I just uploaded it! Have a look…

  7. #7 by Ajusal on February 13, 2010 - 6:55 pm

    Yoyo…hamari wrkshop world famous ho gayi :-) :-P

    P.S. I’m the one teaching in dat pic :-P

    Team Robotica \m/
    ERC \m/

  8. #8 by Utkarsh on February 27, 2010 - 9:45 am

    :D

    Team Robotica to do some more feats in the coming months \m/

  9. #9 by Jatin on March 14, 2010 - 3:43 pm

    Hello Utkarsh,
    this is jatin.i am student of final year ece studying in chandigarh.wanted to learn more about image processing.
    can u plz tell me if u organize this workshop somewhere else also near chandigarh or delhi(or if someone else does)
    or if u can tell me some book etc to get started.

  10. #10 by Utkarsh on March 16, 2010 - 3:15 am

    @Jatin… we can make this workshop happen at your college or somewhere near… Check you mail for the details…

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