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
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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.
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Flagship Projects
Current Projects
Research Themes
Deep Learning
Controls and Planning
Natural Language Processing
IoT
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Computer Vision and Multiview Geometry
Localisation
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
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Recent News and Workshops
20th Feb 2021
Lecture by Prof. Aamir Ahmad Team IvLabs added yet another talk to our ongoing series of discussions with notable Industry and Academia personalities, this time, with Prof. Aamir Ahmad, an assistant professor at the University of Stuttgart (in Flight Robotics Group) and a lead in the Robot Perception Group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He has done notable work on sensor fusion, multi-robot systems, state estimation and perception. He talked about his ventures in aerial robotics. We engaged in a highly technical discussion about the advantages and scope of this technology, and he also shared advice on how to keep a research lab relevant and on the bleeding edge. To know more about him, visit his : LinkedIn Profile and Webpage You can also watch the talk on YouTube |
14th Feb 2021
ASEAN-INDIA 2021 IvLabs is delighted to annouce that Ritik Agrawal and his team were declared as runner ups at the international "ASEAN-INDIAN Hackathon" receiving a cash prize of 1500 USD. The problem statement was “To track, provide alert to ships before piracy attack & continue to track the attacking boat”. Their proposed solution integrated existing anti-piracy technology into a “one stop application”, also using satellite imagery and AIS data to identify & track potential pirate ships and raise early warnings. |
10th November 2020
ICETEST 2020 "A review of Video Generation Approaches" co-authored by a team of IvLabs comprising of Rishika Bhagwatkar, Khurshed Fitter, Saketh Bachu and Akshay Kulkarni was accepted for presentation at ICETEST 2020. The authors presented an overview of Deep Learning based approaches employed to tackle the complex problem of video generation. The approaches involved Variational Autoencoders, Generative Adversarial Networks and even the transformer model. Further, they compared and reported the performances of these approaches on the BAIR Robot Pushing dataset. |
31st October 2020
NeurIPS Workshop 2020 "Paying Attention to Video Generation" co-authored by a team of IvLabs comprising of Rishika Bhagwatkar, Khurshed Fitter, Saketh Bachu and Akshay Kulkarni was accepted at the NeurIPS Workshop, 2020. The authors proposed a latent vector manipulation approach using sequential models, particularly the Generative Pre-trained Transformer along with a novel Atttention based Discritized Autoencoder. |
8th August 2020
Team Meraki, SIH 2020 Winners IvLabs is pleased to announce that Team Meraki comprising of IvLabs' members Aayush Fadia and Ritik Agrawal along with Saumya Gandhi, Surbhi Agrawal, Kanishka Soni, and Praneeth Korthiwada under the mentorship Ms. Snigdha Bhagat, have emerged as the victors of the Smart India Hackathon 2020, held by the MHRD. The problem statement was "Attention Span Detection in Online Instructor-Led Sessions". A solution to this problem has infinite applicability in these times due to the lack of a physical classroom. For more details Click Here |
8th August 2020
Team IvLabs, SIH 2020 Winners Team IvLabs comprising of Rohit Lal, Himanshu Patil, Khush Agrawal, Rishesh Agarwal, Arihant Gaur, Akshata Kinage have secured the first position at Smart India Hackathon 2020 conducted by MHRD. The problem statement was "Creating an affordable solution through camera feed for number plates of vehicles for the detection, identification, and monitoring of vehicles in different scenarios". A robust traffic flow management and monitoring system was also developed using web and android application. For more details click here |
8th Aug 2020
Lecture by Victor Romero Cano Team IvLabs added yet another talk to our ongoing series of discussions with notable Industry and Academia personalities, this time, with Victor Romero-Cano, a former researcher at CHROMA, Inria, and current lecturer at Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, his alma mater, and researcher at El Grupo de Investigación en Sistemas de Telemando y Control Distribuido (GITCoD). He has done notable work in the intersection of Robotic Perception, Learning and Reasoning. We engaged in a highly technical discussion about the advantages and scope of this technology, and he also shared advice on how to keep a research lab relevant and on the bleeding edge. |
7th June 2020
Lecture by Jagannath Raju The Team of Ivlabs had a productive discussion with Mr. Jagannath Raju, CTO of Systemantics India Pvt. Ltd. Mr Jagannath Raju, an alumnus of prestigious institutes such as the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave us his insights on the current state of the Robotics Industry in India. He shared his experience in establishing Systemantics and transforming this emerging startup into a success. He expressed his views on the current culture of Research and Development Startups, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Robotics, Scope of theoretical research based companies and Artificial Intelligence. In a world where most of the startups do not make it to the elite tier of industries, Mr. Jagannath Raju is an inspiration to all aspiring engineers that sheer resilience, passion, determination and hard work only lead to success. |
May 2020
Sahayak Robot IvLabs has developed a robot named ‘Sahayak’ to help in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.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 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 |
PasT NEWS and Developments
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 2020
MATLAB Workshop 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 |
5th January 2020
ICAME 2020 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 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" |
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. |
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. |
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. " |
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. |