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Registrations are open for e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC-2016)
The fifth edition of the e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC-2016), a part of the e-Yantra project, has received an overwhelming response within a few days of its launch on August 1, 2016.
Mumbai: The fifth edition of the e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC-2016), a part of the e-Yantra project, has received an overwhelming response within a few days of its launch on August 1, 2016.
Over 1000 teams (4000 students) from colleges across the country have already registered for the current edition of this unique competition where,
- Students register as a team of 4 and take an online selection test.
- Selected teams are given a problem specified as a theme in a rule book.
- Teams get a robotic kit along with accessories to solve the problem and
- Teams solve the problem in a step-by-step manner being taken through the project life cycle in a systematic way.
This competition has seen exponential growth in the number of registrations since its inception in 2012. Last year, the competition registered 19,568 students from 589 colleges from 28 states of the country.
An unique feature of this competition is that it emphasizes “learning” more than “winning”. The competition format is such that every participating student learns concepts in Embedded systems and Robotics in a step-by-step manner during the course of the competition over a period of 4-5 months.
“This means that even students with no prior exposure can learn the concepts and come up with innovative solutions. Thus, this competition is used to impart Project Based Learning (PBL) through hands-on experiments on a robotic platform where students don‘t pay any registration.
eYRC-2016 aims to bring awareness to interesting concepts in Embedded systems and Robotics problems in Space exploration, and other concepts through themes that engage participants to solve problems in these vital domains.
This year in order to provide an opportunity to a larger number of qualifying teams, we have themes under three (3) Tracks, namely Space Exploration, Building a Bot and Play a Song.
The e-Yantra project is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), under the National Mission for Education through ICT (NMEICT) to provide hands-on learning infrastructure to students who have limited access to labs and mentors.
Professors Kavi Arya and Krithi Ramamritham of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay conceptualized the e-Yantra project after years of experience in teaching embedded systems.
The e-Yantra project believes that a competition framework harnesses the intellectual ability of young Indians to create practical solutions to real problems.
The domains range across manufacturing, defence, smart homes, city maintenance and service industries. Rapid economic growth implies a huge need for automation and related skills especially in a world dominated by the "Internet of Things" and other such technology.
The goal of the IT-based e-Yantra project is to, in a scale-able manner, help create a cadre of engineers that can address the problems that a rapidly growing economy such as India so sorely needs.
IITB, being an academic institution, promotes and encourages the use of Open Source platforms. Hence, the material developed in the project is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
