What is IvLabs

IvLabs serves as a platform for students from different engineering backgrounds to collaborate and work together with the utmost team spirit and avidity to bring innovative ideas into reality

What we do

We strive to study and improve technologies that advance the fields of robotics and AI. We use our cross-domain knowledge, to create and innovate. We teach and inspire new students through workshops and mentor-based programs, transferring knowledge and creating new leaders to propel innovation.

Flagship Projects

Swayat​
​India's second completely 3D printed autonomous robot, that participated in
​FIRA '16, Beijing, China.
Autonomous Driving Platform
The robot aims to accomplish A to B navigation with obstacle avoidance
​within our institute campus
Garuda
A custom built quadcopter, capable of delivering a package from one point to another autonomously.
ATGV
A simple tracked all terrain robot that is able to perform 2 D locomotion and climb stairs.

Current Projects

Person Following
​Mobile Robot
Person Following Robot using Multiplexed Detection and Tracking.

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​Face Gesture
​Laptop Control
A Human computer interaction project with Facial Expressions as input modality.​
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​Suntracker On
​Mobile Robot
The Sun-Tracker mounted on Rocker-Bogie Mechanism which can transverse all kinds of terrain including steps.
PIXGuide: Two wheeler navigation system
Navigation system for a vehicle and method for navigation​​.
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Code Release 

Track Projects

Lab Space

Current Team

Alumni Reach

Recent News

May 2020
Sahayak Robot 

IvLabs has developed a robot named ‘Sahayak’ to help in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Frontline workers like doctors and nurses in the hospital are at the highest risk of getting infected. To protect the frontline workers, the team of students working at ‘IvLabs’ the robotics lab of VNIT, converted a hospital trolley into an automated robot that can be wirelessly controlled. Such a robot can be used by the hospital staff to deliver food packets and medicines to the Covid-19 patients and maintain a safe distance. The robot is also equipped with a display screen, camera, and a speaker which can be used by the doctors for video communication with the patients. The robot is being currently tested at AIIMS Nagpur to serve coronavirus patients
5th January 2020
ICAME 2020 
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The International Conference of Advances in Mechanical Engineering, held by the Mechanical Engineering department of VNIT, and co-organized by Dr. Shital Chiddarwar was a great platform for IvLabs members to a prestigious conference, and get experience in presenting their work.
14th December 2019
SoCPaR 2019
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In 11th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, held at the Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, organised by Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) labs, Mr. Arihant Gaur, member of Ivlabs presented his paper on "Cursor Control Using Face Gestures"
1st December 2019
Patent Issued
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A team from IvLabs comprising of Karan Pandaya, Ravishankar Gaikwad, Aadhithya Iyer, Parkrut Kotecha, Rishesh Agarwal and Rohit Lal was issued a patent for the project "Navigation system for a vehicle and method for Navigation"
27th September 2019
Open Day 2019
IvLabs opened it's doors for the Academic staff of VNIT, so they could have a glimpse at the ongoing and completed projects in the Open Day'19. The Director, Dr P. M. Padole graced the evening with his presence as did many Heads of Departments. The team of Ivlabs was overwhelmed with the valuable advice of our veteran professors.
6th July 2019
IEEE ICCCNT 2019
In the 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,  Mr. Rohit Lal, member of Ivlabs presented his paper on "Real Time Human Computer Interaction using Face Gestures "
25th February 2019
IEEE IRC 2019
In the 3rd International Conference on Robotic Computing, held at the Partenope Congress Center, Naples, Italy,  Mr. Aman Jain, member of Ivlabs presented his paper on "Deep Learning based Stair Detection and Statistical Image Filtering for Autonomous Stair Climbing. "
25th May 2018
ICRA 2018
Yogesh Phalak and Rajeshree Deotalu presented two posters at ICRA '18, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, on the project Design for surveillance bot named OSWaIT - Omnidirectional Spherical Wall Traversing Robot.
21st Dec 2017
IEEE ICM 2017
​Manish Saroya presented the paper "Design and Implementation of Omni-Directional Spherical Modular Snake Robot (OSMOS)" at International Conference on Mechatronics  2017 in Australia.
3rd Dec 2016
ROBIO-2016
Parag Khanna and Khushdeep Singh presented their research paper "Design Analysis and Development of Low Cost Underactuated Robotic Hand" at ROBIO '16 IEEE International conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2016,​ Qingdao, China.
20th July 2016
FIRA'16
Team Swayat from IvLabs participated in the 21st Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA), Beijing held in December 2016. The team demonstrated the capabilities of the self-made robot by challenging teams from 15 countries worldwide in the HuroCup Sprint Race
29th Oct 2014
IROS 2014
Rohan Thakker, Ajinkya Kamat and Sachin Bharambe presented their research paper "ReBiS: Reconfigurable Bipedal Snake Robot" at  IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), ReBiS has later also been featured in IEEE spectrum.
13th sept 2013
TI ADC 2013
Rohan Thakker, Sachin Bharambe and Ajinkya Kamat secured third position in Texas Instrument Analog  Design Contest 2013, India. For the project Assistive device for navigation for blind person". The project has also been patented.

Workshops

26th January 2020
Manual Robotics Workshop
The Manual Robotics Workshop was held on the 26th of January under the IEEE Student Branch of VNIT where volunteers from IvLabs enlightened their fellow first years about the basics of robotics covering topics such as gears, linkage, gripping and kicking mechanisms along with DPDT switches.
19th January 2019
MATLAB Workshop
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The MATLAB Workshop was held on the 19th of January under the IEEE Student Branch of VNIT where volunteers from IvLabs enlightened their fellow first years about the basics of MATLAB covering topics such as images, smoothing of images, edge detection, thresholding, contour detection, HSV colorspace and video processing 
3rd December 2019
Solidworks Workshop
The Solidworks Workshop was held on the 3rd of December under the IEEE Student Branch of VNIT where volunteers from IvLabs enlightened their fellow first years about the basics of Solidworks covering topics such as planes, drawings, features, assembling of a model, filleting, threading, and spline.
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India

Contact Us

Email: ivlabs@mec.vnit.ac.in

IvLabs, Seminar Hall-41
New Academic Building