Adani Engineering students win national award in Robotics

Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (AIIE) stands out as the only institute from Gujarat to get ranked in Grade A Category by IIT-Bombay

Editor’s Synopsis

At IIT Bombay's e-Yantra Robotics Competition, featuring 1700+ participants across 372 teams from all over India, team of AIIE emerged triumphant, claiming the national championship title.
Gujarat's AIIE has achieved Grade A Category ranking, competing with 500+ institutions nationwide, based on its performance since 2018.

Ahmedabad, 11 April 2023: Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (AIIE) embarked on an extraordinary journey of seven months when four of its students, Kushal Mehta, Tathya Kariya, Jisha Naik, and Mohammad Arsh Vahora, enrolled in the e-Yantra Robotics Competition – a robotics outreach program hosted by IIT Bombay and sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The students leveraged every resource to hone their technical and soft skills, passing through the challenging elimination rounds and eventually being shortlisted among 1700+ participants from all over India. Their ultimate success of being proclaimed the top 5 performers of the competition was a testament to their determination and dedication and eventually claiming the championship.

The students' efforts to tackle the 'Krishi Bot' theme were particularly remarkable. The theme entailed creating a robot that can navigate and harvest agricultural produce in future cities. The team gained comprehensive knowledge of several robotics-related technologies, such as Robot Operating System, Gazebo, MoveIt, OpenCV, and Git, to create an algorithm for the robot's navigation, perception, and manipulation.

In addition to the students, AIIE's faculty must be commended for their contribution to providing mentorship and guidance. Professor Anupam Kumar Singh, the Principal of AIIE, proudly expressed his delight at the students' achievement. “Our institute endeavors to cultivate an attitude of team spirit, and analytical and logical reasoning in our students, and this competition has served as the ideal platform for our students to showcase those virtues. We are overjoyed with the outcome," he stated.

IIT Bombay recognized AIIE’s outstanding effort since 2018 and declared it a Grade A institute. With this, AIIE is the only educational institute from Gujarat to make the cut. To crown their efforts, the team at Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering achieved the National Title, becoming the only representative from Gujarat to reach the final of this esteemed event.

About Adani University

With a vision to educate and empower the youth, to encourage transformative research that focuses on real-world problems, and to contribute to global sustainability via excellence at all levels, the Adani Group – one of India’s largest transport and utility infrastructure conglomerates with inspiration from the infrastructure and visionaries of India – Shri Gautambhai Adani and Smt. Pritiben Adani – has established the Adani University in the enterprising State of Gujarat in India. With major thrust on education for transformation, Adani University will be engaged in building state-of-the-art futuristic institution for education, training and research that shall disseminate managerial and technological knowledge of the highest value through impactful industry engagement and multidisciplinary research. Adani University will be a research- intensive institution that seeks to address and impact real-world problems. Research, formal and non-formal programmes for doctoral, under-graduate and post-graduate degrees and certification programmes, at the intersection of disciplines, will be offered at the University.

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