EXSEQUOR Orientation Workshop

Jagruti Jagdish Shenoy | Scintilla Weekly

Navi Mumbai: EXSEQUOR is an intra-collegiate embedded systems contest organised by Technocrats SIESGST. The competition was conceptualised with the sole objective to train participants in embedded systems and to strengthen their subject knowledge so as  to enable them to compete in inter-collegiate robotics competitions like e-yantra, ni-yantra etc.

An orientation workshop was conducted at 3:30 pm on February 7^th, 2014 to familiarise the participants with ‘Firebird V’ robot and various aspects related to its programming. Around 50 students accommodated themselves in GST’s Lab 7 eager to know more about this autonomous, sensors-enabled robot. The workshop began with a presentation by Sharath Nair and Neethi Nair, who had represented SIESGST at E-yantra, a robotics competition held at IIT Bombay, as finalists. The presentation covered a brief introduction of the various components of Firebird V and direction control and applications of the same. Following this, the students were taught programming procedure for the robot using Embedded C language. Softwares like AVR Studio and AVR Boot-loader were used for this purpose. The volunteers offered their assistance to the participants at every step of this process. At the end of the workshop, the students appeared for a test based on the presentation, the results of which will decide their future in the competition.

All in all, the orientation workshop proved to be a successful one, in terms of the subject content and hands-on experience that it had to offer to its participants.