6th sense botz workshop - Dec 20 & 21, 2013

India’s first “SixthSense Botz” vision robotics workshop designed by team ARK. In this workshop, we have tried to interface digital world with physical world. We as an organization feel the importance of the real world. We all sit in front of computer entire day for our daily activity and one hand is busy clicking the things on the computer, then we felt to design something that can interface the real human with the computer. We humans can see the things around us, differentiate between colors then why can’t machine? And that thought leads us to design “sixthsenseBotz”

All these days the participants would have used traditional sensors like IR, ultrasonic, LDR sensors etc. which were used for sensing an obstacle or light, but these sensors where never able tell
the robot the color of the light or the type of obstacle present in front of the robot. In this two day workshop, using a camera, the robot will be able to tell what the robot is sensing.

The time has arrived to show capabilities to the world with empowering the youth of the
country with non conventional workshops. So ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION WORKSHOPS???????????
For processing of the images, we use a tool called as MATLAB, which is widely used in
industries.

In this workshop, the applications that will be taught to the participants are as mentioned below:-

Color Recognition Application
Ball following robot
Gesture controlled robot.
Gesture controlled windows media player.
Gesture controlled mouse pointer.
FACE recognition (demo) ***

The course content which will be followed for the workshop is as mentioned below:
>>Introduction <<
Introduction to Vision based robots
Vision Controlled Motion

>> Image Processing<<
1. Introduction

Image acquisition devices
Image Processor
Image analysis tools
Machine Control

2. Image acquisition devices/sensors
Digital Camera
Analog Camera

3. Tools used for Image Processing

>> Hands on <<
1. Getting started with MATLAB
Functions
M files

2. Introduction to the kit
Programming micro-controller (AT89c2051).
Serial communication
Motor drivers

3.Image acquisition in MATLAB

4. Image processing
Color spaces
Color format conversion
Showing and storing of images
Thresholding
Important functions of MATLAB used for color and edge detection

5. Video acquisition
Getting information about your webcam and adapters
Setting all the image input parameters
Starting and previewing video
Capturing image and storing image
Getting ahead with image acquisition (Includes specific frame triggering)

6. Sending serial and parallel data using MATLAB

7. Implementing Image Processing on the kit and robot

**workshops is to be conducted on 2 consecutive days, each day 8 hours session so in total
16 hours properly divided into theory and hands on sessions. In the end we organize
a small competition among the participants of the workshop so that the students get
the real feel of competitive environment. Winner of the competition will be awarded
with certificate of merit & other prizes.

>>The SixthSense Botz KIT Contains:<<

KIT Content:

1 . ARDUINO BOARD ( http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/arduino_uno_test.jpg ) CONTAINS

Micro Controller -ATmega 8
・ Operating Voltage - 5V
・ Input voltage - 6V-20V
・ Digital I/O pins - 14 out of which 6 provide
PWM
・ Analog Input Pins - 8
・ DC Current per I/O pin - 40mA.
・ Flash Memory - 16KB
・ SRAM - 1KB
・ EEPROM - 512Bytes
・ Clock Speed 16 MHz
・ USB-UART converter
・ Proper Indicator LED's
・ USB/ EXT input voltage
・ 5V output supply pins - 3
・ 3.3 V output supply pins - 1
・ Breadboard Compatibility (dimension of a 40
pin DIP IC)

2. Webcam
3. DC geared motors
4. ABS polished wheels with metal couplings
5. Castor Wheels
6. General Purpose robotic vehicle chassis
7. Ball for Image Processing
8. Usb type-A to type-B cable
9. Screw driver
10, Different colors insulation tape

>>Participation fee:<<

Rs. 1300/- per HEAD and a team of maximum 4 students. Each team would be awarded with one Take away “SixthSense Botz” KIT, Certificate of participation(Individually) containing ARK Technosolutions logo .

Charges & Participation

The charges include:

Training fee of the 2 day workshop
Take away kit of SixthSense Botz
Information & software CD
Individual participation certificate

company's website - http://www.arktechnosolutions.com/

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