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
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. |
Face Gesture Laptop Control A Human computer interaction project with Facial Expressions as input modality. |
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. |
Code Release
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Track Projects
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Current Team
Alumni Reach
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Lab Space
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Recent News and Workshops
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16th October 2021
MTDA Paper Accepted at NeurlPS'21 Workshop 
𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 "𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗦𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗜𝗣𝗦’𝟮𝟭 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽. NeurIPS is one of the most renowned conferences in machine learning and computational neuroscience, with an h-index of 192. The paper proposes a novel generic domain adaptation (DA) setting, OS-nSmT and a graph attention-based framework named DEGAA which captures information from multiple sources and target domains without knowing the exact label-set of the target. Further details would be released post-publication. It’s the hard work, determination, and perseverance of the authors Aadhithya Iyer, Arihant Gaur, Muhammed Abdullah Shaikh, Ritik Agrawal, Rohit Lal, and Dr. Shital Chiddarwar which led to this grand success. 2n July 2021
ReQuBiS paper accepted at CASE'21 
as The paper on “ReQuBiS- Reconfigurable Quadrupedal-Bipedal Snake Robots." was published at IEEE CASE 2021 Snake robots are ideal for traversing through cluttered and constrained environments. Bipedal and Quadraped robots are suitable for structured environments such as stairs and can carry pay load. This paper proposes a reconfigurable robot which aims to bring the best of both worlds which can transform between mobility modes without rearranging modules. The IvLabs team congratulates all authors Aadesh Varude, Karan Pandya, Ajinkya Kamat , Harshad Zade, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar and Rohan Thakker for their accomplishment. The paper is a testament to their determination over the years. |
16th October 2021
Paper Accepted at NeurlPS'21 Workshop
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 “𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁” 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗜𝗣𝗦’𝟮𝟭 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽. Founded in 1987, NeurIPS is one of the most renowned conferences in machine learning and computational neuroscience, with an h-index of 192. The paper proposes a novel pipeline that focuses on maximizing Mutual Information between representations of sentences that share similar semantics. This additional step would improve multilingual embeddings for the downstream task of Neural Machine Translation. Further details would be released post-publication. The IvLabs team congratulates all authors, Prasad Vagdargi, Rishika Bhagwatkar, Khurshed Fitter, Kshitij Ambilduke, Aneesh Shetye, Diksha Bagade,Dr. Shital Chiddarwar for their accomplishment. Their determination and diligence throughout the months of toil finally paid off. 11th June 2021
PixGuide Patent Published 
It's a glorious day for the lab as the patent for PixGuide which was filled in 2019 has finally been published. The team comprised of Karan Pandya, Prakrut Kotecha , Rohit Lal, Aadhithya Iyer, Rishesh Agarwal, Ravishankar Gaikwad, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar. The main motive of this device is to help the two-wheelers navigate without having to use different applications or mounting their mobile phones or other expensive machines on the vehicle. The Google APIs that are used to make a navigation system are costly; hence, the team has used voice packs to make navigation device cheap. |
28th September 2021
Sahayak Poster Accepted at ISMR 
A Poster Paper on "Sahayak- A COVID Aid Bot" was accepted at the ISMR 2021 conference. The paper presents an autonomous robot to help the medical frontline workers for contactless treatment of patients in this age of pandemic. The whole IvLabs team congratulates the authors, Karthik Raman, Prathamesh Ringe, Kushagra Srivastava, Sushlok Shah, Yagnesh Devada, Sania Subhedhar, Varad Vaidya, Aayush Fadia Anshul Paigwar, Ajinkya Kamat, Harshad Zade, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar, for this achievement. 11th May 2021
DeepSCT paper accepted at NCC 
We are enthralled to announce that our paper on “𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗦𝗖𝗧: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺” has been accepted at 27th edition of NCC-2021.NCC - The National Conference on Communications, is India's premier annual conference organized by the Joint Telematics Group (JTG) consisting of IITs and IISc. The authors Himanshu Patil, Rohit Lal, Khush Agrawal, Dr. Deep Gupta and Prof. K. Surender (Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VNIT Nagpur) presented a novel mechanism, DeepSCT, to handle the long-term object tracking problem in computer vision. Further details would be released post publication. We congratulate all the authors for achieving new boundaries, a result of sheer dedication and determination even through these demanding times. |
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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. |
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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 |
PasT NEWS and Developments
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
1st December 2019
Patent Issued 
A team from IvLabs comprising of Karan Pandya, Ravishankar Gaikwad, Aadhithya Iyer, Prakrut Kotecha, Rishesh Agarwal and Rohit Lal was issued a patent for the project "Navigation system for a vehicle and method for Navigation" |
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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. " |
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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. |
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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. |
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
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Contact UsEmail: ivlabs@students.vnit.ac.in
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