Center of Excellence in Automation & Robotics (COEA&R)

1. Introduction:

A center of excellence (COE) is a laboratory or shared facility that provides training/ support, provides platform for students and researchers to do their research work. Center of Excellence in Automation and Robotics in Department of Mechanical Engineering is a resource formed to serve for academicians and industry persons in the field of Automation and Robotics. The center's aim is to create technically sophisticated manpower for automation and robotics research, including inter-disciplinary network. In addition to the research activities, COEA&R is also involved in developing technologies that can be commercially availed by the industries.

2. Objectives:

• The main emphasis of the center is to design and develop intelligent and autonomous robots and automation systems to work on research problems and innovative projects that extend the state of the art in robotics and automation
• The vision behind is to promote and encourage student activities, research projects and relevant courses related to automation and robotics
• Embarking Research and development activities in the areas of Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation
• Network with other agencies, institutions, national labs and industry working in the area of Robotics and automation to create facility which will be accessible to all researchers in the country
• Setting up inter college cooperative program in which graduate students from other colleges can come and take courses and do their research projects in the facility created
• Running summer courses of Automation and Robotics for teachers, students and industry professionals
• Provide platform for faculty and UG Students to perceive their interest in basic and applied research and translate their innovative ideas into prototypes

3. Functional Team:

5. Industry Connect:

6. MoUs under COE:

7. Facilities/ Equipments Available

8. Investment:

9. Activities Conducted:

• Free webinars 07 nos. from Industry expertsin association with Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA), April 2020. 
• Regional Finals of the e-Yantra Ideas Competition (eYIC 2019-20)
• Industry 4.0 workshop at Renishaw Ltd. 22 students & 03 faculty members on 27th Dec 2019.
• Renishaw Machine Probe basic training, 13th December 2019, for Faculty Members & w/s instructors.
• Visit to Setco India Pvt. Ltd. Pune for collaboration & Consultancy work.
• Workshop on “ Introduction to Robotics” attended by 4 faculties at VIT Pune
• e- Yantra Task based training complted by 4 faculties and received Class A award

10. B.E. Projects:

Center of Excellence in Advanced embedded Systems and Signal Processing

Motivation:

To provide the students with State-of-Art training environment so that E&TC graduates will be able to provide solutions to industry relevant problems in Embedded Systems and Signal Processing domain

Objectives:

• To facilitate projects in Advanced Embedded Systems & Signal Processing
• To promote projects particularly relevant to the upcoming IoT domain
• To train students in various tracks of Advanced Embedded Systems & Signal Processing
• To enhance employability of students through effective Industry Institute Interaction
• To serve industry & community in realizing the Smart City Dream

Team CoE

Advisory Board:

• Mr. Rohit Vatsa, Sr. Domain Expert, Telecom & Media, Persistent Systems ltd.
• Mr. Hrishikesh Kamat, CEO, Shalaka Connected Devices LLP Pvt. Ltd
• Mr. Avinash Magdum, GM, Harbinger Systems, Pvt. Ltd
• Mr. Amit Nahar, Knorr Brimsen Technology Center
• Dr. Shripad Bhatlawande, VIT, Pune
• Dr. Mrs. Vinaya Gohokar, MIT, Pune

Facilities Available:

• CoE of E & TC Department is equipped with Rasberry Pi 3 ,Tiva Processors and sensors to facilitate projects and research in the upcoming IoT domain
• Formal announcement of eFSI set up in association with e-Yantra, IITB and MHRD

Activities Conducted under CoE:

• Two Days State Level Workshop on IoT:Towards smart future
• Two Days National ConferenceIoT:Towards smart future
• Two Days Workshop & International Technical Competition in IoT
• Hosted EYIC regional finals in association with IITB
• Industry conclave in association with IITB
• Hands-On Workshops on Rasp-Pi, Networking, IoT, Arduino etc

Outcomes:

1. Internships
2. Placements
3. Industry sponsored (technically) B.E & T.E Projects

Projects based on IoT & Smart city theme

Industry Connect for CoE :

Two Days State Level Workshop

Two Days National Conference

“IoT: Towards smart future”

“ IoT:Towards smart future"

Center of Excellence in Automation & Control

OBJECTIVES:

• Skill development in automation technology
• Uplifting the academic environment
• Training facility for students, faculty and industry
• Consultancy services
• Research facility

OUTCOMES

• Design and development of Control and power panel
• Training of students, faculty and industry personnel in conventional automation technology and digital technology
• Development of automated system using Programmable Logic Controller
• Instrumentation of industrial processes
• Development of supervisory control and data acquisition system for substation automation

BENEFITS TO STAKE HOLDERS

• Trained manpower for industry
• Consultancy and research facility
• Facility for startup
• Internship for aspirant in automation technology
• Need based services

INVESTMENT PLAN:

KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS

INDUSTRY RESOURCE PERSON

Dr. S. D. Agashe

• Experience: 25 + Yrs
• Expertise: Instrumentation and Control
• Professor, College of Engineering- Pune

Mr. S. Panditrao

• Experience: 30+ Yrs Industries + Academics
• Expertise: ANN, Instrumentation
• CEO & Director, San Techno Mentors

Mr. Swapnil Thorve

• Experience: 8+ Yrs
• Expertise: Sensors
• Branch Manager, Autonics India Pvt. Ltd

MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE

Projects on conventional and digital automation need to involve people from discipline like Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Agriculture and Electronics. These projects include hardware and software development, training curriculum etc.

VISITS TO INDUSTRIES FOR SETTING CoE

• Meeting with Mr. Rajendra Joshi ( Proprietor Adroit Autotech) Date: 23/02/2018 Time: 1600 to 1745 Venue: AdroidAutotech Office, Kothrud.
• Meeting with Prof. S. D. Agashe( Professor at COEP, Pune) Date: 01/03/2018 Time: 1200 to 1315 Venue: COEP, Pune.
• Meeting with Mr. Shekhar Lokhande, Mr. Mandar Puranik , Mr. Satish Ujjainkar, Mr. Nilesh Pohekar ( SMC Pneumatics India Pvt. Ltd. ) Attendee: Dr. V. N. Gohokar, Prof. S. C. Jadhav Date: 06/03/2018, Time: 1030 to 1200, Venue: SMC Pneumatics off. Kothrud.
• Meeting with Mr. SanishDubey , Mr. Satish Ujjainkar, Mr. Nilesh Pohekar ( SMC Pneumatics India Pvt. Ltd. ) Attendee: Dr. V. N. Gohokar, Prof. S. C. Jadhav, Dr. Shital Kulkarni, Dr. V. R. Deulgoankar, Mr. M.R. Tarambale, Mr. S. M. Harite Date: 07/03/2018, Time: 1030 to 1200, Venue: MMCOE.
• Meeting with Mr. Ganegaonkar (Shree Systems)Attendee: Prof. S. C. Jadhav, Dr. Shital Kulkarni, Prof. B. B. BhureDate: 09/03/2018, Time: 1030 to 1330, Venue: Shree Systems, Pirangut.
• Meeting with Mr. Danish Dubey , Mr. Satish Ujjainkar, Mr. Nilesh Pohekar, Mr. Rahul Kulkarni( SMC Pneumatics India Pvt. Ltd. ) Attendee: Dr. V. N. Gohokar, Prof. S. C. Jadhav, Dr. Shital Kulkarni, Date: 12/03/2018, Time: 1430 to 1630, Venue: SMC Pneumatics
• Meeting with Mr. Sudhir Panditrao Attendee: Dr. V. N. Gohokar, Prof. S. C. Jadhav, Date: 12/03/2018, Time: 1515 to 1615, Venue: Office: San Techno Mentors.
• Meeting with Mr. Swapnil Thorve (Autonics Automation India Pvt. Ltd) Attendee: Prof. S. C. Jadhav, Mr. S. Bhise Date: 19/03/2018, Time: 1515 to 1615, Venue: Office: Autonics Office Bund Garden.

ANY OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:

a. Focused Area for CoE

• Distribution Automation
• Substation Automation
• Home Automation
• Building Automation
• Agriculture Automation
• Smart Grid
• LV Control Panel Design
• Energy Management Systems

b. Perspective Plan:

• 2017-2018
  • Conventional Automation
  • PLC Based Automation
  • Hands on training for Students

• 2018-2019
  • VFD for Control
  • Digital Automation
  • Catering training need of Industry

• 2019-2020
  • Consultancy services
  • Research activity

C. Present Curriculum:

Prof Pravin R. Choube 
CoE Coordinator

Dr V N Gohokar
Head of Department

Center of Excellence in Computational Intelligence

Computational Intelligence is the ability of a computer to learn a specific task from data or experimental observation. Generally, computational intelligence is a set of nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex real-world problems to which mathematical or traditional modeling can be useless for a few reasons: the processes might be too complex for mathematical reasoning, it might contain some uncertainties during the process, or the process might simply be stochastic in nature.

OBJECTIVES

• To encourage Research Publications, Patents/IPR and Funded Projects
• Collaborate with R&D organizations to acquire and disseminate knowledge among stakeholders
• To provide platform for BE projects groups to solve real life problems

FACILITIES AVAILABLE

Software Development (By Faculty) :

e-Defaulter: e-defaulter application is an academic monitoring software developed in-house by the faculties of IT Department. The software can be accessed by all the faculties in the department for attendance filling, defaulter list generation, roll call list generation, sending daily SMS to parents of absent students, etc.

Software Development (By Student) :

Fingerprint Spoofing :

Computational Thinking:
For the purpose of developing computational thinking, few games (listed below) have been made available in the lab, along with rules and regulations of the game and its computational details are also provided along with it.

Following games are available in the lab:

Abalone - An award winning board game

Rubik’s Cube (Classic, Mirror Cube, triangular) - Classical brain scratching puzzle

Metal Puzzles - MW and others

Mastermind - A unique code breaking game

Triangle - Color Match

FUNCTIONAL TEAM

Functional Team is formed to administer and steer the Project Management activities.

ADVISORY BOARD

INDUSTRY CONNECT:

MOU UNDER COE:

Activities Conducted:

1. Mr. Mahesh Bodhgire,Managing Director, ecoRise Software Solution, Pune, has delivered an expert lecture on the topic "Database Management Systems" on 07/10/2019 for TE students.

2. Mr. Anurag Sangale, ecoRise Software Solution, Pune, has delivered an expert lecture on the topic "Applications of Data Structures in Software Industry" on 03/03/2019 for SE students.

3. Faculty development program on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” on 06/06/2018 -10/06/2018

4. Two days workshop on "Android App Development in associaton with Aakar IIT

Bombay under Techradiance 2019" on 27/07/2018 by Mr. Vaibhav Jadhav

5. Four days training program on "Data Science" on 09/10/2018 by Mr. Suresh Pal, Mr. Bipul Kumar Shahi ATS Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

6. Guest lecture on "Introduction to DevOps" on 15/07/2017 by Mr. Nitin Bhide (Program Director, HCL Technologies, Pune) Kedar Deo (Group Project Manager, IBM,

7. Guest lecture on “Data warehousing and related Concepts” on 09/09/2017 by Mr. Shashank Diwan (Project Manager, Yardy So?ware, Pune)

8. Visit CDAC, Mumai(Kharghar) 7/3/2018

9. Two days workshop on Cloud Computing by Geeks Lab Technologies on 15-16 July 2016

10. Session on Challenges and issues on cloud computing by Mr. Bhavik Ambani and Mr. Vishal Menon from Progressive Infotech on 17/09/2016

11. Two days National Level Workshop on Cloud Computing & Big Data sponsored by BCUD SPPU on 13-14 Dec 2016

12. One day workshop on cloud basics and setup by Mr. Pranav Sahastabuddhe 4/10/2015

13. Cloud server setup on OpenStack was done by faculty members on Dec 2015

14. Attended session on Vmware on Cloud and Virtualization at VIIT on Jan 2016

Ongoing/ Completed Projects: