Nodal Centre for Robotics and AI (NCRAI)

NCRAI is being established at Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur with the following objectives:

● To facilitate frontline research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

● To organize training and skill development programmes for technical institutes in the field of Robotics and AI.

● To develop new products and solutions to the industry.

Major Equipments Details

Funded Research projects:

● Cancer Detection Research Fund from Bio informatics Division, Ministry of Information Technology Govt. Of India, Rs 16 Lakh Project status : Completed in 2022.

● MODROB funding from AICTE Rs 17.1 Lakh for purchasing Single arm collaborative robot –
Completed in 2022

● Coconut Development Board Funding of 2.2 Lakh rupees for the Development of Coconut climbing machine – Completed in 2018.

● Development of Firefighting Drone – MSME Idea Hackathon – 4.5 Lakhs – Proposed.

● Development of Human – Wildlife conflict avoiding Drone – MSME Idea Hackathon – 5 Lakhs –
Proposed.

● Development of Glass Facade Cleaning Robot – MSME Idea Hackathon – 4 Lakhs – Proposed.

● Robotics development Center – Mini Industrial Unit – 30 Lakhs – Proposed.

Institute – Institute Interaction

● Development of Intelligent Pineapple Harvester – In collaboration with Kerala Agricultural University – Ongoing.
● Development of Black Pepper Harvester – In collaboration with Kerala Agricultural University – Completed in 2022.

Industry -Institute Interaction

● Development of Machine learning based Automated thermistor sorting machine to detect manufacturing defects – For Nila Tech Pvt. Ltd. – Ongoing.

Students Projects

● Developed Autonomous Drone capable of target detection and payload dropping for a National level competition conducted by SAE India. The developed drone secured first price for “Target identification” event.

● Implementation Of Voice-Assisted Collaborative Robot Assembly With Object identification In a Production Line.

● Conversion Of a Quad Bike To An Autonomous vehicle.

● Design, fabrication and analysis of Delta parallel robot 

● Thrust improvisation of a electric driven fan with an afterburner.

● Prediction of surface roughness using machine learning of vibration signals during turning operation.

● Self centering of a lathe chuck using computer vision.

● Defect identification of thermistors in manufacturing line.

Publications:

● Published 5 papers in International conference “ADVANCES IN DESIGN, MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING AND SURFACE ENGINEERING FOR MOBILITY” conducted by Society of Automotive Engineers, India. One paper received best paper award in a stream.

1. S, A., Robin, A., Sadique, A., and P P, L., “Comparative Study of a Manual and Voice-Assisted Collaborative Robot Workforce in Production Assembly Lines,” SAE Technical Paper 2022-28-0542, 2022.

2. K, S., Menon, N., Sadique, A., and P P, L., “Sensor Fusion, Mapping, Localization and Calibration of a Converted Autonomous Quad Bike,” SAE Technical Paper 2022-28-0561, 2022.

3. H Seby, AS George, A Sadique, PP Lalu, ”Implementation Of Voice-Assisted Collaborative Robot Assembly With Object Identification In A Production Line,” SAE Technical Paper 2022-28-0589, 2022.

4. TC Sedwin, MA Jayakrishnan, PP Lalu, A Sadique , “Conversion Of A Quad Bike To An Autonomous vehicle And Perfomance Assesment” SAE Technical Paper 2022-28-0590, 2022.

5. Boby, A. and Sadique, A., “Performance Assessment Of An Electric Ducted Fan With Afterburner.,” SAE Technical Paper 2022-28-0562, 2022.