Electronics and ICT Academy

About Electronics & ICT Academy at IIITDM Jabalpur

Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India has instituted four Electronics and ICT Academies with one academy at IIITDM Jabalpur. Primary objective of the academy is to prepare manpower for two important missions - 'Digital India' and 'Make in India'. The Academy aims at the design and implementation of scalable training programmes in niche areas of electronics and ICT for the development of required knowledge base, skills and tools to unleash the talent of Indian population. In addition to this, the academy conducts training programmes and research promotion workshops in different emerging areas of technology and science for corporate sector and educational institutions. The Academy is envisioned to become a central hub of activities on training, consultancy work and entrepreneurship programmes.

About IIITDM Jabalpur

Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur (IIITDMJ), established by MHRD Govt. of India in collaboration with Govt. of Japan in 2005 with a focus on education and research in IT enabled Design and Manufacturing. The Institute offers undergraduate, post graduate and PhD programmes in Design, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Natural Sciences. To build strong partnership with industry, Institute offers six months long internship to the UG/PG students as part of their curriculum. Under IIIT act, the Institute has been declared an Institute of National Importance in January 2015. The Institute campus is being developed on 250 acres of land next to Dumna Nature Park. The lush greenery campus provides an ideal setting for learning and creativity.

About the course:

This course is designed to provide an exposure to the fundamentals of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Participants will learn kinematics and dynamics of industrial manipulators, kinematics of mobile robots, trajectory planning, path planning and control and how to embed intelligence in robotic tasks. Hands-on training and practice sessions will help participants gain confidence on robotic concepts, their simulation and implementation including sessions on intelligent agents. The course will be useful for faculty of engineering and sciences who are interested in the learning robotics and intelligent systems.

Course Contents

1. Introduction to Robotics and Robot Simulators  
Robot Manipulators, Mobile Robots, Legged Robot, Aerial Robots, Applications.  Components and mechanisms of a robotic system, sensors and actuators.  Introduction to Manipulator, Coordinate System, classification, reachable and dexterous space, Forward and Inverse kinematics, DH Parameter Velocity Kinematics. Hands on: Robot Simulation Software, Tutorials on Coordinate systems and Robot Kinematics : Webots, RoboAnalyzer  
2. Kinematics, Dynamics and Control   
Mobile robots and their kinematics, Holonomic and Non-holonomic robots.  Basics of trajectory planning, configuration space and dimension. Linear and nonlinear robot control: Feedback and motion control, Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance in known and unknown environment. Intelligence path planning.  Hands on: Practice on Webots for Trajectory Planning using different types of robots 
3. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic. Vision based planning and control, Learning based motion planning,  Hands on:  Implementation of ANN and Fuzzy logic for motion planning and simulation, Implementing on hardware using Raspberry Pi boards. 
4. More on AI and Machine Learning:
Reinforcement Learning: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning, Tabular Solution Methods – Multi-armed Bandits, Finite Markov Decision Processes, Dynamic Programming, Monte Carlo Methods, Temporal Difference Learning. 
5.  Applications, Research Directions and Case Studies:
Research directions, and case studies. Mobile robotics – multi-terrain robots, humanoid robots. Biped locomotion; Applications in Agriculture, and Social robotics. Brain Computer Interface (BCI)  and gesture control  Hands on– Simulation of robot tasks and motion planning, Industrial manipulators and motion planning and hardware implementation.

Key Features

• Online / Live lectures sessions by subject experts.
• Comprehensive tutorials and practice notes.
• Online lab and training sessions.
• Follow up sessions and discussion forums on research problems and internships.

Course Fee Details

Academic (student/faculty): 1000 INR
Industry People : 3000 INR

Last Date of Registration:25th Jan 2021

Online payment details
Name: “IIITDMJ-E&ICT ACADEMY”
Bank Name: Allahabad Bank \Indian Bank
A/C No. : 50302042708
IFSC Code: ALLA0212433
Brach Name: Mehgawan, IIITDM Branch
(Allahabad bank is merged with Indian Bank from April 1, 2020)