Building the Foundation of Robotics: e-Yantra AlphaBot Workshop at CIMAGE
CIMAGE Group of Institutions continuously focuses on providing students with skill-based and industry-relevant learning opportunities that go beyond traditional classroom teaching. As part of this vision, the college conduct hands-on Robotics Workshop using the e-Yantra AlphaBot Kit, designed to introduce students to the practical world of robotics and embedded systems in a simple, engaging, and student-friendly manner.
Strong Academic Foundation Supported by IIT Bombay Training
To ensure high-quality learning outcomes, CIMAGE faculty members have previously undergone specialised training at IIT Bombay under the prestigious e-Yantra Training Programme. This exposure enables faculty members to deliver structured, industry-aligned, and hands-on robotics training to students using globally recognised academic frameworks.
Understanding the Basics of Robotics and Embedded Systems
The workshop begins by building a strong conceptual foundation. Students introduced to the fundamentals of robotics and embedded systems, where they learn how intelligent machines are designed, programmed, and controlled. Sessions focus on explaining how hardware components such as controllers, motors, and sensors work together with software programs to perform real-time actions. This approach helps students clearly understand complex concepts, even if they are beginners in robotics.
Introduction to the e-Yantra AlphaBot Kit
A major highlight of the workshop is the introduction to the e-Yantra AlphaBot Kit, an educational robotics platform developed under the renowned e-Yantra initiative of IIT Bombay. Students gain hands-on familiarity with the robot kit, learn about individual components, and understand how different parts assembled to form a complete robotic system. This practical exposure helps students understand robot structure, connectivity, and overall system architecture.
Learning Robot Architecture, Motor Control, and Sensor Interfacing
The two-day workshop offers in-depth learning on robot architecture, motor control, and sensor interfacing, which are essential for building intelligent robots. Students learn how different robot components are connected and how the overall robotic system functions as a single unit. Special emphasis placed on motor control concepts, enabling students to understand how robots move forward, backward, turn, and change direction with accuracy.
Students also introduced to sensor interfacing for real-time response, where they learn how robots sense their environment and respond to external conditions. Through practical demonstrations, students understand how sensors collect data and how this data helps robots make real-time decisions.
Programming AlphaBot and Live Robot Demonstrations
An important learning outcome of the workshop is programming the e-Yantra AlphaBot for movement and actions. Students are guided step by step to write simple programs that control robot behaviour. By executing their own code, students instantly see how programming instructions are converted into physical robot movements, making learning highly interactive and engaging.
The learning experience further strengthened through live real-time robot demonstrations, where students observe fully functional robotic systems in action. These demonstrations help students connect concepts of embedded systems, programming, motor control, and sensor inputs with real-world applications.
Skill-Based Learning Beyond the Classroom
The robotics workshop promotes hands-on, experiential learning and encourages logical thinking, problem-solving ability, and technical confidence among students. Learners from BCA, BSc IT, and MCA benefit greatly from this interdisciplinary exposure, as robotics combines technology, analytics, and decision-making skills.
Through such structured and industry-oriented initiatives, CIMAGE continues to prepare students for future careers in automation, robotics, and emerging technology domains, ensuring they graduate as confident, skilled, and industry-ready professionals.