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ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY

he Aligarh Muslim University is a residential academic institute which came into existence by the efforts of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a Great Reformer. He laid the foundation of the Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College (MAO College) which is now known as Aligarh Muslim University. AMU occupies an exalted position among Indian Universities and its contribution to nation building is in no way inferior to the best among the lot. AMU is perhaps the only University in the country, which has high schools in its domain. The University offers 325 courses. AMU ranks 5th on the India Today Nielsens list of Indias top Universities. AMU also embarked on a spree of tie-ups, signing MOUs with Wisconsin University, Cleveland University, Atlanta University, Johns Hopkins University and New York University. Website: www.amu.ac.in

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COLLEGE OF

ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY
Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology with its foundation stone laid on 21st November 1938, stands today as an epitome in the field of engineering and technology, manifesting quality education to build intellectual competitiveness. ZHCET named after a great scholar of AMU and the former President of India, Dr. Zakir Husain, extends its arms for hundreds of students from across the country and abroad. Technical education has become inevitable because encroachment of technology in each and every sphere of human life has left us craving for more. Thus, technology education is heralding its importance in this era of global leadership. It provides its students with modern educational facilities while retaining traditional values, as well as using its strong industrial contacts to shape young, talented individuals who can compete in the global arena. In the present scenario, a booming institute is one which is flexible enough to mould itself according to the ever-changing prospects and demands of the country. ZHCET, too, is one such institution.

that have been added last year alone. AMU RoboClub is operated by students along RoboClub is a students' initiative to create a sustainable with a Faculty-In-Charge and few Faculty Advisors. The team manages the working innovation system where a great exchange of knowledge takes of the club and the club behaves as an autonomous association of students by place in practical sense. As a students club, it facilitates team work, analytical students and for students. thinking, problem solving and applying science & technology. In a nutshell this Club Achievements made by the members are numerous. Ms Musfira received the SIAR confronts students to the actual world of engineering. In todays world everyone is scholarship from University of Maynooth Ireland), Mr Shahbaz Khan was awarded in need to know how to use technology, but its equally important to understand the best student award by Tata Consultancy Services, Mr Ibadur Rehman stood first how to create it and that is the basic motive of this club. Formed in 2008, AMU in JK White Design Challenge competition organized by IIT Kanpur during Techkriti, RoboClub is a hub of all technical activities. Established at Zakir Husain College of Mr Sarfraz Alam Khan stood first at a paper presentation in Cognizance-IIT Roorki, Engineering and Technology, AMU (Aligarh, India), aims to sharpen the technical Mr Saif Rehman was a part of ICARUS (students conference organized by IIT skills of the students of the faculty of engineering in AMU under one roof by Kanpur), Ms Sameerah Desnavi won the first prize at Techfest (IIT Bombay), Mr imparting them the knowledge of robotics and other emerging technologies, besides Faraz Ahmad developed a Web-Monitor( a low cost Video Surveillance robot) to providing a platform to implement the innovations dwelling in their minds. mention a few. The activities of the club include weekly lectures, workshops, project assistance and Recently, the club has started incubation and development cell under which it aims project development. The Club even offers individual guidance, online workshops to encourage development of research based projects and develop the ideas into (webinars), project assistance and development of learners boards, equipment, real life products which finally promotes entrepreneurship. Several new projects components and workspace. Since its formation, the club has always progressed and have been developed under this cell that presents a solution to various Industrial focused on developing solutions that can tackle problems at industrial levels. AMU problems. This year a team of first year students developed an RoboClub has been working in this direction since the time of formation. The Club Autonomous Electroplating Station that would improve the quality of the process has worked to enhance the abilities of SWAT team of Aligarh Police Department. and reduce human effort. Till now numerous project have been built to meet the demands at industrial levels. This Club welcomes anyone, who has the zeal to learn technology and is passionate The members enrolled with the club learn about robotics and other emerging for getting into technicalities. Everyone can be a part of this club (be it of any branch technologies to keep pace with the advancing technologies. This vision of the club or stream) as we believe in the exchange of knowledge be it any, especially in the has led several members to prove their talents at many prominent events both field of Robotics. AMU RoboClubs another motive is to apply robotics on society national and international. and trigger widespread social and economic change, for which the members are National Achievements being winning at various tech-fests and prominent trying their best. AMU RoboClub also takes up industrial projects. It also designed conferences/seminars and international referring to the SIAR scholarships that is and implemented an advanced buzzer system for University Literary Club (ULC), given for excellent performance in the field of Robotics. The scope of activities is not AMU and many more achievements since its 5 years voyage till now. confined to only robotics or embedded system solutions but also to the developing The Club along with a strong Alumni Network and Faculty support, aims high to technologies in all fields of engineering and sciences. The count of projects innovate and implement ideas that could bring about a positive change in the developed has reached over 75 within a short span of 5 years. And over 15 projects society.

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Achievements
Since 2008, AMU RoboClub has been constantly rising and making a mark at varsity, district and even national level. The students are motivated to think innovatively and further implement it. There has been an exponential rise in the number of students joining the club and the projects developed along with a huge list of achievers at the National Level Competitions. The club has over 200 members in 2012-13 session alone, over 75 projects built till date and counting. The support of Teacher -In-Charge, Faculty Advisor and a strong alumni network is the basic reason behind the influence and motivation. Students have been working hard under the umbrella of the Club to materialize their ideas.

Invited STMicroelectronics to campus for knowledge exchange session.

2nd Prize in INNOVISION 08, NSIT Delhi 5th & 7th positions at Techkriti09, IIT Kanpur Under graduation (B.Tech) projects in robotics taken for the 1st time. Conducted workshops at Aligarh College of Engg & Iqra Public School. Proposals from AMITY Lucknow and many more.

Industrial trip and Demo at STMicroelectronics Noida.

Musfira Jilani, Ibad-ur-Rehman, Ashti Saleem won 2nd Prize in Microcontrollers Challenge at Innovision 08 held at NSIT New Delhi. Islam A. Khan, Minhaz Ahmad, Saif Rehman, Md. Hasnain stood 8th (on 75 teams) in Line Follower Robot Competition at Innovision 08 held at NSIT New Delhi. Saif Rehman, Musfira Jilani, Saba Khan stood 5th (on 25 teams) in RoboGames RoboEx at Techkriti 09 in IIT Kanpur.

Tofiq Ali, Aftab Alam, Md Reyaz stood 7th (on 25 teams) in RoboGames- RoboEx at Techkriti 08 in IIT Kanpur.
Minhaz & Harshul, Rameez & Zubair, Deepak were Finalists (Top 10) in Analogic at Techkriti 08 in IIT Kanpur.

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Achievements

Ibadur Rahman, S. Anwer Ali & Md. Nazibullah won 1st prize in J K White Design Challenge Competition Techkriti 10, IIT Kanpur. Sarfraz Alam Khan, Mohd Tariq & Farhad Ilahi Baksh won 1st prize: Paper Presentation Cognizance 10, IIT Roorki. Sarfraz Alam Khan, Mohd Tariq & Farhad Ilahi Baksh won 3rd prize at Solar Conference IIT Roorki. Md. Mohsin Ahsan Finalist in Paper Presentation at Techstar 10, Hyderabad. Ibadur Rahman won 3rd prize in the Paper Presentation at Techstar 10, Hyderabad. Conducted Workshop at Jamia Millia Islamia.

Conducted Junkyard Wars at Zarf, ZHCET.

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Musfira Jilani (Electronics IV) was awarded the SIAR scholarship by University of Maynooth (Ireland). Mohammad Zaid & Arjun Jauhari (Electronics IV) won the 4th prize in the national level competition Smart Car Race India 2010 organized by Freescale Semiconductor India, in collaboration with the Center for Electronic Design and Technology (CEDT) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Shahbaz Khan (Computer IV) was awarded the best student by TATA Consultancy Services. Sarfaraz Khan (Computer IV) presented a Reseach paper on GSM Mobiles in ICMLC 2011 (organized by IACSIT and IEEE in Singapore conference) Faraz Ahmad (Electrical II) stood as a Finalist in Utkarsh, a Paper Presentation competition at Techfest held in IIT Bombay. Shahbaz Khan and Faraz Ahmad and Developed a Low Cost Web Monitor for Video Surveillance.

Achievements
Since 2011, more and more students participated in national level competitions that were organized in several IITs and stood among the top three positions in nearly all the events. The participation from the club was over 40 in just Techkriti 11 and around 80, if overall participation is seen. Also, several new projects were developed to solve some specific industrial problems.
Shagufta Selected for Summer Internship at IISc Bangalore. Faraz Ahmad Won second prize at HACKATHON- organized by planning Ambreen Bano: Stood 2nd in Hackathon 13. Stood 1st in Paper Presentation at Paradigm, ZHCET AMU. Stood 1st in Paper Presentation at Tech Innover at ZHCET AMU Stood 1st in Paper Presentation at CarpeDiem at ZHCET AMU. Stood 1st in Workshop on Multimedia and Applications at AMU.

commission of India.
Presented Research Papers at IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, AMU,

MANIT Bhopal and MNNIT Allahabad in various IEEE Conferences.

Published a research Paper in International Journal.
Stood 3rd at LEAU- The intervarsity presentation completion in

Stood 1st in Novanate at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 2nd in Myth 12 at Mangalaytan University. Stood 2nd in Application Development in Barqq at AMU. Mohammad Asif, Shahrukh Ashraf and Yoshita Bardhan. Stood 3rd in Paper Presentation at ZHCET AMU. Stood 2nd in Junkyard Wars 2.0 at ZHCET AMU.

AMU.
Developed 4 projects under the Club. Salman Kashif: 1st prize in a presentation at the National Symposium at AMU

organized by ULC, AMU.

Stood 2nd in paper presentation in Cognizance 11 at IIT Roorki. Stood 2nd in Hydrology Quiz at Cognizance 11 at IIT Roorki. Stood 3rd in Spectrum in Cognizance 11 at IIT Roorki. Stood 3rd in Follow Me at Paradigm in ZHCET, AMU. Stood 2nd in Technical Race at Uqaab in Aligarh Muslim

Stood 2nd in Follow Me 2.0 at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 3rd at Pirate Wars held at IIT Bombay. Stood 2nd at in Project Competition in Proyekto at AMU. Sameerah Desnavi and Sehrish Khan Stood 1st in Paper Presentation in Techfest at IIT Bombay. Stood 2nd in Project Competition in Proyekto at AMU.

University.

2011 till date

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The projects are preserved in form of

Digital Posters and

the corresponding codes are uploaded on FTP Servers
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Over 75 Projects has

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Visit:www.amuroboclub.in/projects.html
for further information and the archived projects.

Since 2012, the process of archiving the projects started

Recent Projects
The members of the club learn and develop innovative ideas and implement it for the betterment of humanity. Recently, the Club has started Online Summer School under the name of ROBO-SUMMER 13. The main purpose was to utilize the vacations in building socially useful projects. The project under RoboSummer 13 were mentored and Completely Funded by the AMU RoboClub Alumni. can be accessed from the following URL: The following projects were the outcome of this initiative: All the projects www.amuroboclub.in/projects.html
Duration: One Month Net Cost: ` 5,500/-

Mentors: Md Umair, Faraz Ahmad

Duration: 6 days Net Cost: ` 3,500/-

Mentors: Mohammad Umair

Duration: 36 Hours Net Cost: ` 2,000/Mentors: Mohammad Umair

Android Based Location Alarm -Benazeer Khan, Keerti

Singh, Mohammad Amaan Amjad

Autonomous Electroplating Station - Zainab Zaheer, Anand

Agarwal, Udit

ROBO SUMMER13

Autonomous Monochromatic Line Follower Robot -Tofik Ali, Saif Rehman &
Others

Controlling Home Appliances by SMS -Abdullah Azhar Ali

Khan

Automatic Shutdown of Electricity -Mohammad Asif, Manish

Tomar, Kush Pandey

Autonomous BUGGY- Driverless Taxi -Faraz Ahmad

Autonomous Path Finder Robot -Team Members

Digital Voltmeter and Ammeter and Digital Clock -Team Members

Automatic Water Level Indicator and Controller - Rafeeda Siddiqui,

Nazia Noor

Autonomous Fire Fighting Robot -Saif Rehman

Bubble Bursting Game -Shubhi Aggarwal

Energy Management Using Face Detection -Faraz Ahmad

File Joiner and Splitter -Shivani Agarwal,

Deeksha Singh

Obstacle Avoider - Zameerul Hasan

Remote Controlled Aircraft -Shahrukh Ashraf,

Mohammad Asif, Yoshita Bardhan

Robotic Writing Arm -Musfira Jilani

Image Steganography -Nishi Agarwal

Power Meter Reading by SMS -Prateek Rakesh Singh,

Sonam Agarwal

RFID Based Autonomous Vehicle -Shahrukh Ashraf, Faraz

Ahmad

Solar Bottles Lighting for Homes -Arpit Garg, Prakhar

Agarwal

Braille Touch
- Shahrukh Ashraf, Rajat Agarwal

Railway Signaling System for FOG Mitigation -Faraz Ahmad, Sidhika

Varshney, Aditi Varshney

Robotic Arm with 3 DOF -Shahrukh Ashraf,

Yoshita Bardhan, Mohammad Asif

Staircase Climber -Parwez Alam

Student Desk -Rajat Agarwal,

Tushark Bansal, Saurabh Agarwal

Vision Based Fingerprint Scanner - Prateek Rakesh Singh,

Sonam Agarwal

Development of ATMEGA-16L Based Basic Calculator -Abu Talha Danish

Wireless Controlled Robot -Amit Kumar Chawla,

Mukul Pandey

Security System for Microsoft Office Files -Ambreen Bano

Data Logging with Micro SD Card -Haris,Aftab, Shazan,

Rashid

Weather Station, Airborne* (AWS) -Team Members under

Shahrukh Ashraf, Faraz Ahmad

Wireless Telemedicine -Sarfaraz Alam

Vision Based Barcode Reader

- Faraz Ahmad, Shagufta, Dilnasheen Anwar

Smart Home -Mohammad Asif,

Mohammad Asaad, Sameerah, Sehrish, Yoshita

Web MonitorVideo Surveillance Robot -Shahbaz Khan, Faraz

Ahmad

Generating Pattern on LED Matrix using Speech Recognition -Ambreen Bano

Finance Flow
AMU RoboClub is an initiative by the students and hence the contribution comes from the students only. The members are enrolled by paying a very small sum of ` 80/- per year! This amount covers the expenses for each members requirement in the club including hand-outs, tutorials, info-Portal (AMU RoboClubs Knowledge Bank), publicity and promotion materials and a Certificate of Membership. The Club received some contribution in form of Equipment and a working space in 2012. This was facilitated by the then Principal of Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Professor Ekram Husain. The workshops on embedded systems and robotics and other developing areas is organized in college at the break-even point. The projects that are developed under the club are a result of members sole financial contribution involved in that project. A sum of ` 500/- on an average are spent on small projects and over ` 5000/- on larger projects (that too is managed by the students involved in that project). This year some alumni contributed and funded for the ROBOSUMMER 13 under which three projects are build till date and one under development. AMU RoboClub contributes to these project developments by providing existing equipment and a working space along with mentorship and guidance.

Funds and Finance

Developments so Far
2008
AMU RoboClub Established
MICROB Held

2011
Horizon Expanded to complete Faculty of Engineering & Technology

2009
Annual Workshop Robonics held first time Industrial Trip to STM

2012
AMU RoboClub gets an Office Space. Funded by the Principal, for Incubation Center Tech Innover Held Alumni Interaction Sessions organized ZHCET Technical Mentorship Program Starts

2010
Innovate Program Started Workshop held at Colleges in NCR

More to come till the end of 2013

2012-13 HIGHLIGHTS

The Team
Patron Prof Hamid Ali (Dean) Faculty of Engineering and Technology Prof Ekram Husain (Principal)
Z H College of Engineering and Technology

Teacher In Charge

Prof Ekram Khan (Department of Electronics Engineering)

Faculty Advisors Prof Izharuddin
(Dept of Computer Engg)

Prof Abid Ali Khan

(Dept of Mechanical Engg)

Dr Anwar Sadat
(Dept of Electronics Engg)

M Rihan Alvi
(Dept of Electrical Engg)

Coordinator (Session 2013)

Mr Shahrukh Ashraf (Dept of Electronics) Mr Mohammad Asif (Dept of Electrical) Ms Sidhika Varshney (Dept of Electronics)

Foundation Stone
Founding Members
Patron

Former Coordinators
Former Coordinators Session
2008 Mr. Parvez Alam (BSNL) Ms. Kirti Srivastava Mr. Arshad Iqbal Ms. Raaziyah Shamim Mr. Parvez Alam (BSNL) Mr. Islam Ahmad Khan (CSC) Mr. Harshul Varshney Ms. Binish Fatimah (IITD) Mr. Fahad Ali Usmani Mr. Mohammad Hasnain Mr. Minhaz Ahmad (IES) Mr. Tofiq Ali Chauhan (AMU)

(Late) Prof Muslim Taj Ahmad (Principal Session-2008) Z H College of Engineering and Technology
Teacher In Charge
Prof Ekram Khan (Department of Electronics Engineering)

Prof Iqbal Ahmad Khan (Department of Electronics Engineering) Mr Adil Mehmood (HAL India)
Mr. Abdullah Azhar Ali Khan (ADOBE) Mr. Ankit Agarwal Mr. Abhishek

2008-2009

Alumni Team
Mr Mohammad Umair (SAMSUNG India) Mr Sayem Ahsan (DMRC India)

2009-2010

Mr. Ibadur Rahman (DTU) Mr. Shahbaz Khan (IITK) Mr. Sarfaraz Alam (TCS) Ms. Musfira Jilani (University of Dublin, Ireland) Mr. Saif Rehman (PGCIL) Mr. Zameerul Hasan (TCS) Mr. Faraz Ahmad (IITD) Mr. Amit K Chawla (IITB) Ms. Shagufta (TCS)

2010-2011

On Campus Lead Team

Mr. Abed Mohammad Kalamuddin Mr. Yasir Khan Mr. Parvez Alam Ms. Kirti Srivastava Ms. Raziyah Shamim Mr. Arshad Iqbal

2011-2012

2012-2013

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Workshop Shed-18, Mechanical Workshop Compound, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202001.