Project: EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS

Overview

This project aims at integrating robotics as an eternal component of the CS program at IBA and provides students an opportunity to enhance their CS/Engineering skills and test their imagination by working on challenging but fun robotics problems. The following activities are currently under way:

1. AI Lab has partnered with Innovation & Enterprise Research Lab at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to create a joint RoboCup Soccer team under 3D Simulation League. The team, Karachi Koalas , has participated in 2011 and 2012 World RoboCups that were held in Turkey and Mexico, respectively. In 2011, we ended up in the top 16 group while in 2012 we ended up in the top 10 group. More details about this exciting development are available on Karachi Koalas' website .


2. A series of robotics workshops, titled Robo Working using Lego , have been initiated for high school students. In a very short time, the workshops have becomes extremely popular among high school students and are helping in creating awareness and interest in robotics among a wide range of audience. The details of the workshop are available on our Facebook page


3. A course, titled Introduction to Game Proramming and Robotics , has been designed and introduced in the BS(CS) program at IBA. Students work on different programming languages to design and control robots to perform various tasks intelligently with the help of its sensors. They also participate in several competitions including maze solving, sumo wrestling and battel royal. For more information, please check the Photos and Videos sections.

Updates

- Karachi Koalas participated in World RoboCup 2012 and reached to the top 10 group (up 6 ranks from 2011). During this exciting journey, we managed to defeat CIT3D (China, runner-up of 2011 World RoboCup), Socio3D (Japan) and had drawn games against BoldHearts (UK, Winnder of IranOpen 2011, GermanOpen 2010 and GermanOpen 2009), Apollo3D (China, World Champion in 2010), beeStanbul (Turkey), Odens (Japan) and FUTK3D (Japan). The competition was held in Mexico City, Mexico during June 18 - 24, 2012.


- Karachi Koalas participated in IranOpen 2012 and reached the second round. We managed to defeat Pioneer3D (Iran) and AUA3D (China). The most exciting result of the tournament was a drawn game against CIT3D (runner up of 2011 World RoboCup). The competition was held in Tehran during April 3-7, 2012.


- The 4th "Robo Workshop using Lego" was held on September 24-25, 2011 at the IBA City Campus. 28 high school (A-Level/Intermediate) students with Pre-Engineering background from various schools and colleges attended the workshop.


- Karachi Koalas participated in World RoboCup 2011 that was held in Istanbul during July 5-11, 2011 and reached the top 16 round. During this exciting journey, Karachi Koalas defeated University of Paris and Osaka University. The competition was held in Istanbul, Turkey during July 5-11, 2011.


- Karachi Koalas participated in IranOpen 2011 and reached the 2nd Round. The competition was held in Tehran during April 05-09, 2011.


- The 3rd "Robo Workshop using Lego" was held on February 26-27 at the IBA City Campus. 16 high school (A-Level/Intermediate) students with Pre-Engineering background from various schools and colleges attended the workshop.


- The 2nd "Robo Workshop using Lego" was held on February 20-21 at the IBA City Campus. 18 high school (A-Level/Intermediate) students with Pre-Engineering background from various schools and colleges attended the workshop.


- The 1st "Robo Workshop using Lego" was held on January 16-17, 2010 at the IBA City Campus. 24 high school (A-Level/Intermediate) students with Pre-Engineering background from various schools and colleges attended the workshop.


• A Sumo Wrestling and Battle Royale Competition was organized on October 26, 2009 at the IBA City Campus. Students of "Introduction to Game Programming & Robotics" class participated in the competiton.

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  Safeer-e-Hussain