Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka has sanctioned a grant of Rs. 30 Lakhs under CISEE program for the proposal titled “Establishment of Innovative Robotics Awareness Lab” with Dr.M.Shivakumar, Professor & Principal, GSSSIETW, Mysuru as programme coordinator.
The Innovative Robotics Awareness Lab being setup at GSSSIETW aims to have lab setup for various fundamental experiments on robotics, provides self building of simple robots performing various operations as per the commands given through software data, voice commands, sensory commands etc. B.E Students of GSSSIETW have carried out the project works namely Robotic 2D Plotter , Reactive Navigation of Multiple Moving Agents in a room Environment and Stuttered Speech Recognition for Robotic Control, Optimal Path Planning With Obstacle Avoidance For An Autonomous Robot, Overtaking Assistance Using Image Processing, Obstacle avoidance, battery charge monitoring and docking of autonomous Robot, Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device for people with communication disorder, Conversion of Speech to Text for Hearing Impaired people, Hand gesture controlled Robot, Docking and self-recharging of autonomous mobile Robot and Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection and Alert System.

Mr. M.V. Sreenivas Rao who is working as Associate Professor and Mr. Basavanna.M, who is working as Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering of our institute are pursuing their Ph.D in the field of Mobile Robotics under the guidance of Dr.M.Shivakumar, Professor & Principal, GSSSIETW, Mysuru
The major procurements in the robotics labs are:

Sanctioned VGST-CESEM Sponsored project “Centre for Research in Cyber Physical Virtual Reality based Embodied AI Robotics” with a grant of Rs. 40 Lakhs at GSSSIETW, Mysuru from 2021-23.

Basic Embedded Systems and Robotic Lab setup :

• It mainly consists of FireBird V 2560, Spark V Robot, accessories, communication modules and the Sensors like Infrared range sensor, Ultrasonic range sensor, 3 axis digital accelerometer, three axis magnetometer and Gyroscope.

Advanced Embedded Systems and Robotic Lab setup :

• FireBird V 8051 robot, FireBird V LPC2148 robot, FireBird V Hexapod and Dexter ER2 robotic arm.

Robotic Research Platform using FIRE BIRD VI :

• Fire Bird XI is reliable, versatile and rugged robot for the advance research in robotics.

Image Processing Platform :

• It consists of Robo Realm Software and WowWee Rovio. Robo Realm is an application for use in computer vision, image analysis, and robotic vision systems. WowWee Rovio is the groundbreaking new Wi-Fi enabled mobile webcam that lets you view and interact with its environment through streaming video and audio, wherever you are! With Rovio, you will always be just a click away from the people and places that are important to you.

Robotic kit to perform specific tasks :

• Using this kit, we can measure distance, follow trails, measure temperature, avoid obstacles Without touching them, recognize day & night and turn headlights on & off.

Research scholars Mr. M V Sreenivas Rao, Assoc. Professor, Dept of EIE & Mr. Basavanna M, Asst. Professor, Dept of EIE, carrying out research activities in Innovative Robotics Lab.

Prof. Ravinder Dahiya, Professor of Electronics and Nano Engineering,EPSRC Research fellow,BEST Group , School of Engineering,University of Glasgow, UK visited Robotics lab on 19th December 2018.

Hands on Training for Robotic Competition “ROBOTEER-2018”  held on 28th April 2018

(Sitting from left) M.V.Sreenivas Rao, Associate Professor, Department of E&IE, Dr.M.Shivakumar, Principal, GSSSIETW, Mysuru, Dr. Venkatrathnam Chitturi, Associate Professor & Head, Department of E&IE, GSSSIETW, Mysuru. Standing are the students of 4th semester and faculty members of the E&IE Department.

The Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, GSSSIETW, Mysuru had organized hands on training for robotics competition “ROBOTEER-2018” on 28th April 2018 under Instrument Society of India (ISOI) Student Chapter for 4th semester E&IE students. The resource person for this program was Mr. M V Sreenivas Rao, Associate Professor, Mr. Nagesh M.S, and Basavanna M Assistant Professors, Dept. of E&IE, GSSSIETW, Mysuru. The training was conducted for one day on the basics of Arduino board and its application on line following robot.

In the morning session, an overview of the Embedded Systems and basics of Arduino board and its applications was presented to the students. The students in the next session built the working model of line following robot using sp duino board, sensors, motors and other accessories and demonstrated its working. 

Seen are R. K. Bharath, CEO, GSSS, Dr. Sumithra Devi K A, Principal, GSSSIETW and Dr. M. Shivakumar, Head, Department of Instrumentation Technology, during the online Lab inauguration of “e-Yantra Robotics Lab-Setup Initiative(eLSI)” at GSSSIETW on 14th March 2016.

The Department of Instrumentation Technology of GSSSIETW, Mysuru had organized online lab inauguration of the Robotics Lab which was setup through e-yantra using a grant of Rs.30 Lakhs sanctioned by Vision Group of Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka with Dr. M.Shivakumar as Program Coordinator. e-yantra is a project initiated by IIT-Bombay sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Department under National Mission of Education through Information and Communication Technology. The ceremony started with an introductory address by Professors from IIT Bombay.

The main objective of the Inauguration is to unite all colleges joining the e-yantra Lab Setup Initiative by inaugurating their individual labs simultaneously through the live web conference. The e-yantra team from IIT, Bombay congratulated GSSSIETW and assured their full assistance in future for any support from their end. The signage board sent by e-Yantra was opened by the dignitaries to symbolically declare lab as an e-Yantra lab. The college had received a free robotic kit which was handed over to the lab team leader Dr. M.Shivakumar by the Principal.

Students of various departments carrying out their Final year project work

Department had organized a “Roboteer-2020” for Diploma students on 28th January 2020. The workshop was conducted for one day on the basics of Arduino programming and its application on obstacle avoidance robot. The main aim of this workshop is to give awareness on Engineering and also to give knowledge glimpses on Robotics. Around 85 students (21 teams) from various Diploma colleges in and around Mysuru had participated in this event.  Certificate of participation was distributed to all the participants by Dr M Shivakumar, Principal and Mr. M V Sreenivas Rao, Assoc. Professor and Mrs. Roopa Nandini, Assoc. Professor and Head, Dept. of EIE ,GSSSIETW, Mysuru.

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering had organized Robotics Workshop “Roboteer-2019” for Diploma students on 24 th January 2019.

Around 130 students from various diploma colleges in and around Mysuru had participated in this event. The workshop was conducted for one day on the basics of Arduino board and its application on line following robot. Mr. M V Sreenivas Rao, Assoc. Professor, Mr. Nagesh M S and Mr. Basavanna M Asst. Professor’s Department of E&IE were the resource person for this event. Certificate of participation was distributed to all the participants by Dr M Shivakumar, Principal, GSSSIETW, Msyuru