14th August 2009, Gwalior
The final day of MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009) on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior), continued with the same vibration as was on the previous day. The eminent speakers on the day were Prof. B. Mahanty from Department of industrial Engineering and Management, IIT-Kharagpur, Dr. P. Acharya and Dr. Anurag Srivastava from IIITM, Gwalior.
The program covered both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella.
Prof. B. Mahanty talked on software project planning with different case studies and its different approaches. He said that each software project consists of four critical dimensions that are very important. These are: People, Process, Product and Technology.
Next session was taken by Dr. P. Acharya and Prof. B. Mahanty together. The session was on “Software Project Management in India” and the issues before project managers. According to them, the reason for the growth and success of the of the Indian firms was not only due to large English speaking and technically qualified manpower but also on continued and painstaking investment and effort of certain Indian firms to develop the project management capabilities in this business. They said that early estimation is always an issue that influences the success or failure of a software project to a great extent. Also the top management’s commitment and the developments’ preference are two factors influencing the adoption of software reuse practice in a firm. The Indian IT industry offers a plethora of opportunities for project managers to develop and fine tune their professional skills.
The final session of the day was taken up by Dr. Anurag Srivastava, on Free/Open source software engineering, its issues and challenges. He said that Open Source Software (OSS) has attracted enormous media and research attention since the term was coined in February 1998.In traditional commercial software development, software is treated as valuable property; the source code is not distributed and is protected by copyright and license agreements. In contrast, OSS is distributed with complete source code and recipients are encouraged to read the code and even to modify it to meet their individual needs. He said that it is a catalyst for the new organizational model in the networked economy, and as an essential facilitator in creating the open information society and bridging the “Digital Divide.”
It was followed by the Valedictory ceremony.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
IIITM Press release on short term training program(10-14th Aug'09) on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”): Day Four
13th August 2009, Gwalior
The fourth day of MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009) on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior), continued with the same vibration as on the previous day. The eminent speakers on the day were Prof. Biswajit Mahanty, from Department of industrial Engineering and Management, IIT-Kharagpur and Prof. Ashok Wahi.
The program covered both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella.
Prof. Biswajit Mahanty talked about the importance of Project management. He showed how the proper project estimation helps in predicting the amount of effort required to develop a software project. He discussed the issues related to schedule pressure and software project management. He showed that schedule pressure is brought about by a variety of factors, such as; lack of experience, amount of re-work, lagging behind the scheduled project completion time, technological changes, discrepancy in estimation of size of the project, effort required etc. He also explained how a software size is a primary cost factor in most software project estimation models.
Prof. Ashok Wahi talked about the software risk management and its solutions. He said that the failure to predict and prevent risk can lead to costly delays, revenue loss, increased stress on team members, a lesser product and even project failure. He did a proper software risk analysis and risk resolution was presented to the participants. The next topic on which he talked was “Challenges of managing large software projects”. He talked on visions like multi-way reviews with management at every stage at frequent intervals, creating cause champions at every section of the process, and optimizing the large scale changes undertaken by adopting business process re-engineering. Some very good tips were also given by him to manage large projects.
After the session, a trip to Gwalior fort was organized for all the speakers and participants of the training program.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
The fourth day of MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009) on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior), continued with the same vibration as on the previous day. The eminent speakers on the day were Prof. Biswajit Mahanty, from Department of industrial Engineering and Management, IIT-Kharagpur and Prof. Ashok Wahi.
The program covered both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella.
Prof. Biswajit Mahanty talked about the importance of Project management. He showed how the proper project estimation helps in predicting the amount of effort required to develop a software project. He discussed the issues related to schedule pressure and software project management. He showed that schedule pressure is brought about by a variety of factors, such as; lack of experience, amount of re-work, lagging behind the scheduled project completion time, technological changes, discrepancy in estimation of size of the project, effort required etc. He also explained how a software size is a primary cost factor in most software project estimation models.
Prof. Ashok Wahi talked about the software risk management and its solutions. He said that the failure to predict and prevent risk can lead to costly delays, revenue loss, increased stress on team members, a lesser product and even project failure. He did a proper software risk analysis and risk resolution was presented to the participants. The next topic on which he talked was “Challenges of managing large software projects”. He talked on visions like multi-way reviews with management at every stage at frequent intervals, creating cause champions at every section of the process, and optimizing the large scale changes undertaken by adopting business process re-engineering. Some very good tips were also given by him to manage large projects.
After the session, a trip to Gwalior fort was organized for all the speakers and participants of the training program.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
IIITM Press release on short term training program(10-14th Aug'09) on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”): Day Two
11th August 2009, Gwalior
The day two of MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009)
on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior), continued with the same vibration as on day one. The eminent speakers were Prof. Ravi Shankar, from Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi and Prof. P.K.J Mohapatra, from Department of industrial Engineering and Management, IIT-Kharagpur.
The program covered both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella.
Prof. Ravi Shankar talked on the widening scope of computer-based information systems, the competitive business environment and the emerging digital firms with the emergence of the global economy. He also gave presentation on the use of information system for accounting firms. He said that the focus should be on flow, use and transformation of data in an information system. His second lecture consisted of the process to show that how the “object relationship model” is the foundation on which the physical design of computer system’s database is built.
The eminent academician Prof P.K.J. Mohapatra spoke about the software metrics, which included, how we analyze the software development to see that it consists of three classes of entities: Processes, Products and Resources. He said that Processes are concerned with the intellectual activities, products constitute the specifications, code, test cases, the manuals, and the similar documents, and the resources included manpower, hardware, software, office supplies, and the like. He also said in terms of software development that more visible the process is, the higher is its maturity level.
At the end, the course module on “Software Project Management” developed by Dr. P. Acharya was proposed to the participants.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
The day two of MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009)
on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior), continued with the same vibration as on day one. The eminent speakers were Prof. Ravi Shankar, from Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi and Prof. P.K.J Mohapatra, from Department of industrial Engineering and Management, IIT-Kharagpur.
The program covered both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella.
Prof. Ravi Shankar talked on the widening scope of computer-based information systems, the competitive business environment and the emerging digital firms with the emergence of the global economy. He also gave presentation on the use of information system for accounting firms. He said that the focus should be on flow, use and transformation of data in an information system. His second lecture consisted of the process to show that how the “object relationship model” is the foundation on which the physical design of computer system’s database is built.
The eminent academician Prof P.K.J. Mohapatra spoke about the software metrics, which included, how we analyze the software development to see that it consists of three classes of entities: Processes, Products and Resources. He said that Processes are concerned with the intellectual activities, products constitute the specifications, code, test cases, the manuals, and the similar documents, and the resources included manpower, hardware, software, office supplies, and the like. He also said in terms of software development that more visible the process is, the higher is its maturity level.
At the end, the course module on “Software Project Management” developed by Dr. P. Acharya was proposed to the participants.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
IIITM Press release on short term training program(10-14th Aug'09) on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”): Day one
10 August 2009,Gwalior
A 5 days MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009)
on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) was inaugurated at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior) on Monday. The aim of the program is to cover both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella. This short term training program is the outcome of research done by Dr. Padmanav Acharya and Dr. Anurag Srivastava under the patronage of Dr. Deshmukh, director(ABV-IIITM, Gwalior) to guide the faculties of different technical institutes of the country.
The chief guest Prof P.K.J. Mohapatra of I.I.T –Kharagpur spoke about the importance of software management, its history of evolution, integration of information Technology with management and its impact on latest research area. He also talked on how IBM 360 computing system was used to integrate scientific software with business software. Dr. Desmukh also informed the audience how the Software developed at the institute has been implemented at narcotics department at Gwalior, and soon to all over the country. The Registrar of the institute Mr. Deelip Kumar talked on the importance of IPR and Patent laws in the field of software development. The vote of thanks was given by Dr. Anurag Srivastava.
On day one, Dr. P. Acharya presented the research work on how the quality of developed softwares increases substantially when the development process is thoroughly managed. Later on Prof P.K.J. Mohapatra elaborated the role of various “Requirement Analysis” tools used in the modern software development process. In his presentation Prof. Mohapatra explained that well defined and stated requirement analysis play a key role in the development of a high quality product.
Finally the session of day ended with research interaction with Prof. P.K.J Mohapatra.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
A 5 days MHRD/AICTE sponsored short term training program(10th to 14th August 2009)
on software engineering and management(“SEM-09”) was inaugurated at Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM, Gwalior) on Monday. The aim of the program is to cover both the classical approach of software engineering and the more contemporary software project management principles and practices under a single umbrella. This short term training program is the outcome of research done by Dr. Padmanav Acharya and Dr. Anurag Srivastava under the patronage of Dr. Deshmukh, director(ABV-IIITM, Gwalior) to guide the faculties of different technical institutes of the country.
The chief guest Prof P.K.J. Mohapatra of I.I.T –Kharagpur spoke about the importance of software management, its history of evolution, integration of information Technology with management and its impact on latest research area. He also talked on how IBM 360 computing system was used to integrate scientific software with business software. Dr. Desmukh also informed the audience how the Software developed at the institute has been implemented at narcotics department at Gwalior, and soon to all over the country. The Registrar of the institute Mr. Deelip Kumar talked on the importance of IPR and Patent laws in the field of software development. The vote of thanks was given by Dr. Anurag Srivastava.
On day one, Dr. P. Acharya presented the research work on how the quality of developed softwares increases substantially when the development process is thoroughly managed. Later on Prof P.K.J. Mohapatra elaborated the role of various “Requirement Analysis” tools used in the modern software development process. In his presentation Prof. Mohapatra explained that well defined and stated requirement analysis play a key role in the development of a high quality product.
Finally the session of day ended with research interaction with Prof. P.K.J Mohapatra.
Media Cell: Chandan Kumar Singh(MBA 3rd sem), Shankti Singh(MBA 1st sem), Vaibhav Jain(MBA 1st sem), Jyotindra Gupta(MBA 1st sem)
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
GajRaj: An autonomous vehicle using image processing
'GajRaj'... What is there in name !
Here , Everything there is in name.
'GajRaj' is the one of the biggest robot presented ever in IIT Kharagpur . This robot is presented in '8mile' by a team of IIITM consisting of Vishal Pradhan (Team Leader, IPG2005), Nishant Kolhe(IPG2008), Shashank(IPG2008), Manish Sharma(IPG2008), Shashank Sukumaran(IPG2008) in Kshitij 2009 and won third prize there.
Here , Everything there is in name.
'GajRaj' is the one of the biggest robot presented ever in IIT Kharagpur . This robot is presented in '8mile' by a team of IIITM consisting of Vishal Pradhan (Team Leader, IPG2005), Nishant Kolhe(IPG2008), Shashank(IPG2008), Manish Sharma(IPG2008), Shashank Sukumaran(IPG2008) in Kshitij 2009 and won third prize there.
1) Name of the Project : Wall-E
2) Brief description (200 words) : Our project is a three wheeler petrol driven autonomous vehicle, which is designed to run on road, follow divider lines , detect zebra crossing and traffic signals (red & green lights ).It has a 55 cc two stroke engine which runs on petrol and has three powerful servo motors for steering ,acceleration and brake ,attached onto it for precise navigation .It also has a laptop stand attached onto it so that a laptop could be mounted whenever we need to run it on road .The laptop (when mounted) is attached to a PCB (Printed Circuit Board ) via serial port which acts as servo motor controller and gives the commands to the respective servo motors which are being executed by MATLAB(Image analysis & processing tool) on the laptop .It also has three separate high quality cameras(CCD camera & two webcams) for lane detection & traffic light detection respectively attached onto it .The most important and the most
astonishing part of our project is that each and every component of the hardware was carefully handpicked by us from the scrap market (popularly known as LOHIA BAZAR in Gwalior) and was welded and fitted by us .It took approximately 60 days and not mention nights (J) to execute this project.
3) Technical Details :( pictures, principles, circuit/block diagrams, drawings, etc.)
a)The following are the pictures (in different views) of our project :
| i) complete bot on the road ( with all components ) |
ii) Complete bot (With all servo motors indicated )
iii) Complete bot (with lane detection and backup camera indicated)
iv) Complete bot (with PCB, laptop, TV tuner, and over head camera for traffic light
detection indicated)
v) Complete bot ( Zoom view with all hardware visible)
b) Principles used:
i) Internal Combustion Engine & Secondary chassis: The engine can be considered as the heart of hardware and it has the following technical specifications:
· Number of cylinders –One
· Fuel used in the engine –Petrol+20cc oil
· Horse power(B.H.P)-49.5
· Cubic capacity (of cylinder)-55 cc.
The engine operates in four different stages i.e. (injection, compression, ignition, and exhaust) and thus provides the required torque to the primary sprocket/gear which is connected to a smaller secondary sprocket through a chain assembly (this system of gears is used because the efficiency of this system is very high (~60-70%) as compared to other gear systems and it’s also simple to implement as far as the practical application is
concerned), the secondary sprocket is fixed to the rear axle ,which passes through two ball bearings ,which are part of Secondary chassis . This secondary chassis’s main task is to
keep the two tires and the engine stable , and in order to accomplish that we have attached
many support bars which you can easily observe in figure iv).
ii) Servo Motors: These are one of the most important components of the system and are used to navigate (steer, accelerate and brake )the bot .The system has used three servo motors (one mounted at the top of steering neck i.e. steering motor, and two mounted onto the inclined neck i.e. acceleration and braking motor as shown in figure ii) above. The servo
motors are used where we need highly precise turns and high torques(as close to 5 degrees or even less..) , each servo has three terminals i.e. (Vcc, Vgnd & control line terminal), the first two terminals are used for supplying power whereas the magnitude of impulse (in ms) at the third terminal decides the degree of revolution of the motor. The shaft from the motor is connected to circular shaped plastic assembly onto which a wire(i.e. acceleration and brake wire) is attached ,the linear displacement(x) of the wire is related to the angular displacement β of the motor by the relation X=Rβ .From this relation we can easily calculate β max, βmin from Xmax and Xmin respectively.
4) Applications of the project : (Expose innovation and commercial applicability)
The aim of the project was to build a system that helps navigate a vehicle by computer aided vision. Our project can be used as basis for further development of ‘smart’ robots for the army as well as for the civil world. Our project can have many useful applications like:
1) Transportation for the Handicapped: the bot can be used as transportation by a slight modification, into a manual robot, by using a joystick, or a few push buttons to control it. Even as an autonomous robot it can be used for the paralyzed, it can transport the paralyzed from one point to another as it can move in traffic, and such.
2) Military Applications: Our bot can be used as an autonomous combat vehicle which can search and intrude enemy’s/terrorists outfits where a manned mission could lead to fatal causalities .The bot will detect enemy’s/terrorists uniform by capturing and processing image’s pixel.
3) Super Market: Our bot can be used in super market for commercial purpose. The bot can follow a white circle with stoppage at various checkpoints from which various items can be loaded into its carts and from there it can take them to the scanning point where the bill can be prepared.
4) Industries: Our bot can be used in various Plants. It can be used to transport/deliver goods and raw materials from one end of the plant to another. The bot can follow the white lane and can stop at red lights to deliver or take goods.
5) Infrastructure requirements: (computer, supplies, etc.)
| 1) 1 laptop (1GB DDR2 RAM,2ghz centrino, 1 serial port,2 usb ports) with MATLAB Installed. 2) 1 TV Tuner card (analog to digital converter). 3) Serial to USB port converter. 4) Printed Circuit Board having the following components : a) 1 AT89C52 16bit µcontroller. b) 1 RS 232 IC. c) 1 16 MHz Oscillator. d) 1 7805CT transistor (for providing constant voltage (5V)). e) 4 I/O pins (for connecting servo motors and power supply). f) 1 Heat sink. g) 6 (10µF, 50volts, 85 ‘C) cylindrical capacitors+ 3 paper capacitors. h) 2 kill switches (one for applying full brakes and another for zero acceleration). i) 1 servo motor reset switch. j) Jump wires. 5) 1 soldering iron (with flux and soldering wire included). 6) 6volt rechargeable battery with charger (for supplying power to PCB & servo motors. 7) Connecting cables. 8) Steel grip tape. 9) Scrap wire. 10) 9volt battery (for providing power supply to CCD camera). |
6) Components involved:
| COMPONENTS COST 1) 2-stroke engine+carburettor+ spark plug +silencer Rs.900 2) 3-old Tires Rs.390(3*130 each) 3) Servo motors a) Steering motor Rs 1450 b) Acceleration motor Rs 750 c) Braking motor Rs 750 1) Primary chassis Rs 450 2) Secondary chassis (rear support system) Rs 350 3) Ball bearings Rs 50 (Rs25*2each) 4) Rear Axle Rs 90 5) Laptop Stand Rs 150 6) Cameras a)CCD camera Rs 1200 b)Traffic light webcam Rs 750 10) Rear Suspension Rs 70 11)Nuts and bolts Rs 50(Rs5*10) 12)Front Suspension Rs 40(Rs20*2) 13) Petrol tank Rs 20 14) Alternator Rs 25 15)Chain assembly Rs 410 (primary sprocket +secondary sprocket + chain) 16) Old brake shoe Rs 80 17) Other expenses Rs 750(approx) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL EXPENSE: Rs 8675(approx) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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