For Technex, IT students design Hexapod for rescue operations
Chronicle Editor @ Sep 28, 2008
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(News forwarded by Anuraag Dubey, Electrical 1998 and Praharsh Sharma 3rd year Electronics)
Here is news item in Jagran newspaper about 5 students from 2nd year and 3rd year Mechanical Engineering having designed and constructed a robot called Hexapod. As the name suggests, the robot walks on six legs and can be useful during natural disaster such as earthquake to search for victims, as it can go to difficult-to-access places where a human cannot.
English Translation
During disasters, Hexapod will be useful like a cane to a blind
During natural disasters such as earthquake, it is still among big challenges to find lives buried under the rubbles. The solution to this problem is found by students from Institute of technology, Banaras Hindu University. A team of five students has developed a six-legged robot, which will not only be helpful in finding persons buried under rubbles away from the general reach; but will also be able to pinpoint the exact information about them to rescue team.
With just a height of one and a half feet, this six-legged robot will not only be helpful during disasters such as earthquake, railway, earthquake, etc.; it will also be useful in easily carrying out the difficult task of finding natural resources such as, uranium deposits and energy sources, by modifying its sensing system. This is because of places where uranium is found, are inaccessible. In such cases, uranium deposits can be searched only by using robots. A team of B. Tech. (Mechanical) students-Deepak Mahajan, Pankaj Rajput, Prasoon Bansal, Swadeep Tuteja and Rahul Gupta- has developed the prototype of the robot. Prof. Amarnath of Mechanical Engineering department, IIT-Bombay has assured the students to help improve the prototype. Hexapod has already received first prize in the under Modex category in the Technex, a national level exhibition in IT-BHU for technical models.
Group leader Deepak points out that in addition to six legs, work is going on to provide six motor wheels to the robot. With this, the robot can use legs while walking on uneven surface and can use wheels to run fast on flat surface. It will be fitted with heat sensors to detect persons buried under the rubble. It will also send photos via a camera, and will accurately signal the details about buried persons to the rescue team. Depending upon circumstances, this one-and-half feet robot can reduce its height and shape.
The team of students is working hard to further refine this robot. To make this invention more powerful, it is planned to take the help of alumni of the institute.
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About translation:
The above translation from Hindi to English was done by using Google translation services (http://translate.google.com). The translation was about 70- 80% accurate, which was later reviewed and refined. For example, it translated a sentence in second paragraph as “Because uranium is found wherever there are human beings not find.” It was then manually corrected. It is not possible to translate Hindi into English in the exact way.
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(Hexapod team receiving award at Modex-08 from Dr. Pradyumna Ghosh)
Dr. Pradyumna Ghosh is Reader in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (the then Chairman, C.C.A. Wing, IT-Gymkhana - Session 2007-08). The prize was Rs. 15,000.
The names of team members from left to right are:
1) Swadeep Tuteja (Integrated Dual Degree Part-III)
2) Rahul Gupta (B. Tech. Part-III)
2) Rahul Gupta (B. Tech. Part-III)
3) Prasoon Bansal (B. Tech. Part-III)
4) Pankaj Rajput (B. Tech. Part-III)
4) Pankaj Rajput (B. Tech. Part-III)
5) Deepak Mahajan (B. Tech. Part-III)
All 5 students are from Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT-BHU.
For more details about the concept and structure of Hexapod, click here
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