IORTA is a multi-disciplinary student-run robotics team of BITS Pilani Dubai Campus with a common goal of advancement in the field of robotics. Our team started off as a small workshop in the college which gained traction due to student interest, ultimately leading us to become the finalists of “The UAE Drones for Good Award 2017” and semi-finalists for “The UAE Drones for Good 2016 Award’.

The ‘UAE Drones for Good Award’ is an initiative by the government of Dubai to create a positive culture towards civilian use of drones. The competition has an active participation by around 1000 teams from above 100 different countries every year. The award of 1 million dirhams for National category and 1 million dollars for the International categoryis the largest award of its kind in the world.

“IORTA from BITS Pilani Dubai Campus participated as Finalists in the third edition of ‘The UAE Drones for Good Award 2017’ for a prize of 1 million dirham.”

Our idea for ‘The UAE Drones for Good  Award 2017’ was based on using an autonomous drone mechanism coupled with computer vision algorithms to track the spread of oil spills and clean them by efficient flight-planning and programmed release of oil-absorbent.For ‘The UAE Drones for Good Award 2016’, we focused on use of 3-D mapping technology enabled by drones to create dense 3-D models for both pre-construction and post-construction analysis which can assist civil engineers to plan efficiently. Our other achievements include securing 4th position in “Techkriti” in IIT Kanpur, India and 4^th place in the ASME Student Design competition, Lebanon.

IORTA has never limited the scope of working and always looks for challenges. We don’t stop with competitions. We are currently working on a real-time project to aid the process of construction using automated robot solutions to optimize resources and obtain accurate and safer construction activities. We have also recently applied for a government-based grant towards the same through ‘Expo Live 2020’ for application of the similar concept for construction activities in Expo 2020. We look forward to actively collaborate with government and private research agencies in the United Arab Emirates to advance our common goal for advancement in robotics. We would like to thank Prof. R.N Saha, Director of BITS Pilani Dubai Campus and Prof.R. Udayakumar, Professor in-charge of our team for their help and guidance. Our ambition is aligned with the vision of the Prime Minister of UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which is to innovate and work towards the betterment of society.

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