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CYBROTICS

For ABU Robocon 2018, the theme released by international host Vietnam was 'Nem Con: The
Festival Wishing Happiness and Prosperity'. According to this problem statement, each team was
supposed to fabricate 2 robots that is 1 manual and other automatic. The manual bot was given
the task to pick up the shuttlecocks or the rack carrying shuttlecock and hand it over to the
automatic bot which was given task to throw that shuttlecock holding it on the keeping point
250mm away from the spherical shape on the tail through two 800mm diameter rings from three
different throwing zones.
Innovations that were brought about in robot model this year:
• Use of belt drive for motion transmission in high torque high rpm chassis motors.
• Use of disc brake to stop the arm at required position and economical pneumatic gripper.
• Use of Microsoft Kinect V2.0 for depth image processing.
• Use of MATLAB for design and simulation of both robots.
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The National Contest was held from 1 March to 3 March, 2018 at Balewadi Stadium,
Pune. The team won both its initial matches in league stage with IIT Patna and VSSUT Burla and
qualified for super league standing 7 in league stage. In super league, the team achieved ‘Rong
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bay’ in both the games and secured position in top 15. Also the team won prestigious
MATHWORKS 1 runner up award with Rs 25k because admirable usage of MATLAB in
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Principal Dr. P.B. Murnal, Faculty Advisor Prof. Madhavi Harne, Dr. A.S. Bhalchandra
Head of the Departments Dr. S.B.Chikalthankar, Prof. S.S. Dhamse, Prof. R.P. Chaudhary, Prof.
C.M. Gaikwad & Dr. Vivek Kshirsagar and all the departmental advisors provided valuable
guidance to the students' efforts in the endeavour. Workshop staff also provided their valuable
support during machining of components. The team was supported by Mr. Sameer Kelkar (CEO
and R&D Head, Grindmaster). The arena poles provided by Sanman Industries helped the team in
achieving MATHWORKS runner up award. Team was also sponsored by SBI, Station road branch
and also co-sponsors were Hi-tech group, Canon Electronics, KW associates & Integrity
Robotics.The team would thank all its benefactors and wish their continued support next year.

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