Pragyan’s Sangam – Hardware Hackathon 2019
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Greetings from team Pragyan ‘19!
It is our sincere hope that you are faring well. This email is regarding Sangam – the Hardware Hackathon conducted by Pragyan.
Pragyan is an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 20121:2012 certified, student-run, non-profit organization of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. It conducts an annual 4-day International Techno-Management Fest under its aegis and the 15th edition of Pragyan is scheduled from the 14th to the 17th of March, 2019. More details about Pragyan can be found on our website mentioned below.
The motto of Pragyan is ‘Let’s Celebrate Technology’. Following our mission, we organise Sangam – Hardware Hackathon, the Innovation Competition for our college students. It attracts the brightest minds of the college and finds huge participation from all domains. For more details regarding Sangam, visit https://pragyan.org/sangam/
This year, we have pivoted Sangam across three themes:
· Healthcare & Lifesciences.
· Energy & Environment.
· Defence & Industrial Technology.
Sangam is a platform that encourages students in bringing their ideas to reality. After rounds of scrutinizing, we have shortlisted 25 of the most promising projects to nurture and help them transform into market–ready products. For this, we provide them with mentorship by experts from academia and industry.
Sangam tries its best to provide the projects all the resources they need to flourish. However, in order to scale the project and generate substantial value to the market, financial assistance, increased poolof resources and support are required.
We request you, as an alumnus of NIT Trichy to express interest in aiding the team(s) financially, technically and in all ways, you may think possible. We have attached the project drafts for all the 25 projects to help you know more about what exactly each of the teams is working on.
We believe that with a bit of support from your end, the students will be able to break free of any suppressing constraints and display their complete potential while bringing their ideas to fruition.
We ensure that the financial assistance or otherwise that you will provide to the teams will be utilized completely for the progress of their work, and you will be kept updated throughout the process. For more details regarding this process, please contact us.
The projects will be put on exhibition during Pragyan ’19, March 14th -17th (14/03/2019 – 17/03/2019). We invite you to come down to Pragyan and witness a grand celebration of technology.
The intra-collegiate technical competition, Sangam is a platform for engineering enthusiasts to come together to work on an idea and endeavour relentlessly to make it come alive. It stands as an arena for innovation, technological brilliance and most of all, an opportunity to build the future.
Following are the shortlisted ideas of Sangam 2019.
Defense & Industrial Technology
- AI :
The objective is to build a model completely based on unsupervised learning which can predict the future movement as well as appearance of a moving agent in a frame. The model generalises very well as it uses the mid-level patches to train the model. Prime motive is to apply this tool to automate the detection of enemy infiltration and further alerting the forces about the same.
- Ctrl Alt Elite :
The objective of this project is to eliminate that manual labour of getting the readings of domestic current usage at homes and introduce automation there.
- Electros :
The objective is to merge smart phones with breadboards to make them smarter. It consists of a smart phone app which would take the input from user and display the output and The breadboard and the circuit accomplishing the task of taking the measurement based on input.
- PCC Smart Translator :
The objective is to construct a medium between normal people and speech impaired persons by giving flexibility with their sign language and make that feasible to other normal persons. It uses a QVGA or VGA camera, Gesture recognition toolkit, OpenCV and JS object detect.
- Recon :
To build a drone capable of changing its configuration based on its payload autonomously. This project focuses on the construction and electronic control of the mid-air reconfiguring drone. The controller would maintain the stability of the drone during flight.
- Saarathi :
The major aim is to design and fabricate a stretcher that can be loaded with the injured person and transported by a single person in the battle field easily and quickly. It should also be compact, foldable and lightweight and must absorb the shocks created in the system so as to prevent secondary injuries being caused to the wounded soldiers. The stretcher must also be able to traverse rough terrains and should provide easy methods of transport across huge obstacles and hurdles.
- Shadow Bot :
The main objective of the design is to design a robot which can be used to infiltrate into enemy bases and locate potential threats if any from a remote secure location without having to risk the lives of human in the course of surveillance. The onboard controller also sends real-time data acquired from the subjected environment to the command centre using wifi through the wifi-module.
- Siraghugal :
This project designs a system that uses the existing cellular network infrastructure for monitoring the drones by validating the operational parameters like altitude, GPS coordinates which are sent from the on-board computer (SCU) to cloud via GSM network which is checked against a set of predefined threshold parameters on the cloud (SC) which can be manipulated by admin. An error message is sent back to the pilot in case of parameter violation. This process is done repeatedly throughout the flight to ensure safety.
- Supreme Creed :
A feasible Unmanned Ground Vehicle with 50 kg payload. It has a symmetrical ellipsoidal design to create unstable equilibrium, the diagonal positioning of motor facilitates self-extraction and
separately driven motors to drag the UGV out of snow. An avalanche victim detector can be used to detect soldier buried under snow.
- The flying Machine : Morphing Wing Ornithopter
The project aims at designing a smart Morphing wing Ornithopter which has the ability to change its wing shape according to the hovering conditions. This concept is the inspiration taken from birds which usually alters their wing area and orientation using feathers when flying.
- The Search Squad : SRV (Search and Reconnaissance Vehicle)
To build an all-purpose vehicle for search and reconnaissance in case of disaster management to find survivors.
Energy & Environment
- Eta Plus : Eta Plus
The proposed solution helps in addressing the main issues faced during maintenance of solar panels. The main objectives of this solution would be to: Prevent significant buildup of dust and minute dirt particles on the panel and to maintain the energy efficiency as good as new and also to detect and clean up major pollutants like bird drop, snowfall etc. before their drying up which can lead to permanent damage to the panel.
- Pentode : Vikriti
This project is to help farmers make informed choices about agriculture using technology. Simultaneous ploughing and precision sowing with the help of a robot capable of moving even on rugged land. Smart drip irrigation by monitoring the need of crops with the help of sensors.
- Technoriots : Recall the forgotten system
This project resolves the common day-to-day act of putting things on some places and then forgetting where you put those things. To solve this issue an android app is created and connected with Arduino Board to just locate that object i.e. where that object is being put up. One just needs to make sure that chip is fit on to the document or key chain so that a signal would be passed on to that device.
- The flying albatross : Aeroelastic resonance turbine
The aim of the project is to build a turbine which has the ability to harness wind-energy by exploiting flow-induced vibrations to our advantage. It harnesses wind-energy by using a phenomenon of vorticity called vortex shedding. The end product of the proposed model is to design and build the turbine without blades and gears which aims to solve the major downsides faced by the turbine with blades.
- TIESTO : TIESTO
Self Adaptive Traffic Control with Wireless V2I Communication that will change the switching time for Red and Green Signal based on the traffic volume density and number of cars waiting at a junction in such a way that for worst case scenario, any vehicle has to wait somewhere between 15-30 seconds. Allow Prioritized Authorization for ESVs, Reduce Traffic Congestion that will thereby reduce pollution levels and save fuel for vehicles by about 30%.
- Trubbish : Trubbish
The project aims at segregating the waste as non-biodegradable (barcoded plastics) and biodegradable waste at initial stage and incinerating the non-biodegradable waste to produce energy with minimal release of harmful gases. And the ash produced as by product in the process is used to make roads.
Healthcare & Lifesciences
- Brailleye – Braille eye
This device is mainly for deaf-blindness. The key to the problem is to have a handheld / portable device which can, in real time, convert text (from printed text) to braille script. Using OCR technology and an ergonomic design, the user can scan photos with text, i.e books, newspapers, where it will be converted to text using machine learning and AI algorithms. This text is sent to the actuator, where a microcontroller controls the braille output.
- Hypnos – Hypnos
The objective is To design and fabricate a bed that is able to shift pressure points of a patient periodically to significantly delay the development of bed sores.
- Indra – Friends
An advanced AI assistant named INDRA which features a unique neural network architecture that allows it to not only be aware of what its user needs, but also talk to its user in extended human-like emotional and organic conversation. INDRA can achieve all of this, while not needing to be explicitly instructed about what to do. INDRA knows when its user needs its help, and when it does not – automatically and intelligently.
- Medical ATM- Medical ATM
This project aims to create a Machine which is like ATM that will provide Medicine(s). An APP is also created (in which user can login using AADHAAR number or by face recognition technique) which will give the information about the Medical ATM.
- Spear- Spear
The objective is to rehabilitate patients with foot drop by fabricating a set of soft robotic actuators mimicking the muscle-skeleton system, controlled via electromyography (EMG) signals.
- Vein visualiser – Vein visualiser
The aim is to make a cost-effective vein finder which is must be very simple to use. The proposed device should be simple enough to operate, accurate in its function i.e find the veins of the patient.
- Victorious visonaries – Portable braille
The main objective of this project is to make a portable braille system which can be easily used by a visually impaired person. This allows them to easily understand the commonly available printed texts like books and newspapers that normal people read in their day to day life.
- VTOL- Vertical take off landing machine
According to the challenge of replacing the drone with VTOL Plane in the field of transportation of medicines, the proposed designs are i. COMBINATION OF TAIL SITTER AND TILT ROTOR CONFIGURATION ii. PADDLE WHEEL CONFIGURATION