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T he Aligarh Muslim University is a residential

academic institute which came into existence

by the efforts of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a Great

Reformer. He laid the foundation of the

Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College (MAO

College) which is now known as Aligarh Muslim

University. AMU occupies an exalted position

among Indian Universities and its contribution to

nation building is in no way inferior to the best

among the lot. AMU is perhaps the only University

in the country, which has high schools in its

domain. The University offers 325 courses.

AMU ranks 5th on the India Today– Nielsen’s list

of India’s top Universities. AMU also embarked on

a spree of tie-ups, signing MOUs with Wisconsin

University, Cleveland University, Atlanta

University, Johns Hopkins University and New

York University.

Website: www.amu.ac.in

ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY

Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology with its foundation stone laid on 21st November 1938, stands today as an epitome in the field of engineering and technology, manifesting quality education to build intellectual competitiveness. ZHCET named after a great scholar of AMU and the former President of India, Dr. Zakir Husain, extends its arms for hundreds of students from across the country and abroad. Technical education has become inevitable because encroachment of technology in each and every sphere of human life has left us

craving for more. Thus, technology education is heralding its importance in this era of global leadership. It provides its students with modern educational facilities while retaining traditional values, as well as using its strong industrial contacts to shape young, talented individuals who can compete in the global arena. In the present scenario, a booming institute is one which is flexible enough to mould itself according to the ever-changing prospects and demands of the country. ZHCET, too, is one such institution.

ZAKIR HUSAIN COLLEGE OF

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

AMU RoboClub is a students' initiative to create a sustainable

innovation system where a great exchange of knowledge takes

place in practical sense. As a students’ club, it facilitates team work, analytical

thinking, problem solving and applying science & technology. In a nutshell this Club

confronts students to the actual world of engineering. In today’s world everyone is

in need to know how to use technology, but it’s equally important to understand

how to create it and that is the basic motive of this club. Formed in 2008, AMU

RoboClub is a hub of all technical activities. Established at Zakir Husain College of

Engineering and Technology, AMU (Aligarh, India), aims to sharpen the technical

skills of the students of the faculty of engineering in AMU under one roof by

imparting them the knowledge of robotics and other emerging technologies, besides

providing a platform to implement the innovations dwelling in their minds.

The activities of the club include weekly lectures, workshops, project assistance and

project development. The Club even offers individual guidance, online workshops

(webinars), project assistance and development of learners’ boards, equipment,

components and workspace. Since its formation, the club has always progressed and

focused on developing solutions that can tackle problems at industrial levels. AMU

RoboClub has been working in this direction since the time of formation. The Club

has worked to enhance the abilities of SWAT team of Aligarh Police Department.

Till now numerous project have been built to meet the demands at industrial levels.

The members enrolled with the club learn about robotics and other emerging

technologies to keep pace with the advancing technologies. This vision of the club

has led several members to prove their talents at many prominent events both

national and international.

National Achievements being winning at various tech-fests and prominent

conferences/seminars and international referring to the SIAR scholarships that is

given for excellent performance in the field of Robotics. The scope of activities is not

confined to only robotics or embedded system solutions but also to the developing

technologies in all fields of engineering and sciences. The count of projects

developed has reached over 75 within a short span of 5 years. And over 15 projects

that have been added last year alone. AMU RoboClub is operated by students along

with a Faculty-In-Charge and few Faculty Advisors. The team manages the working

of the club and the club behaves as an autonomous association of students by

students and for students.

Achievements made by the members are numerous. Ms Musfira received the SIAR

scholarship from University of Maynooth Ireland), Mr Shahbaz Khan was awarded

the best student award by Tata Consultancy Services, Mr Ibadur Rehman stood first

in JK White Design Challenge competition organized by IIT Kanpur during Techkriti,

Mr Sarfraz Alam Khan stood first at a paper presentation in Cognizance-IIT Roorki,

Mr Saif Rehman was a part of ICARUS (students’ conference organized by IIT

Kanpur), Ms Sameerah Desnavi won the first prize at Techfest (IIT Bombay), Mr

Faraz Ahmad developed a Web-Monitor( a low cost Video Surveillance robot) to

mention a few.

Recently, the club has started incubation and development cell under which it aims

to encourage development of research based projects and develop the ideas into

real life products which finally promotes entrepreneurship. Several new projects

have been developed under this cell that presents a solution to various Industrial

problems. This year a team of first year students developed an

Autonomous Electroplating Station that would improve the quality of the process

and reduce human effort.

This Club welcomes anyone, who has the zeal to learn technology and is passionate

for getting into technicalities. Everyone can be a part of this club (be it of any branch

or stream) as we believe in the exchange of knowledge be it any, especially in the

field of Robotics. AMU RoboClub’s another motive is to apply robotics on society

and trigger widespread social and economic change, for which the members are

trying their best. AMU RoboClub also takes up industrial projects. It also designed

and implemented an advanced buzzer system for University Literary Club (ULC),

AMU and many more achievements since its 5 years voyage till now.

The Club along with a strong Alumni Network and Faculty support, aims high to

innovate and implement ideas that could bring about a positive change in the

society.

Since 2008, AMU RoboClub has been constantly rising and making a mark at varsity, district and even

national level. The students are motivated to think innovatively and further implement it. There has

been an exponential rise in the number of students joining the club and the projects developed along

with a huge list of achievers at the National Level Competitions. The club has over 200 members in

2012-13 session alone, over 75 projects built till date and counting. The support of Teacher-In-Charge,

Faculty Advisor and a strong alumni network is the basic reason behind the influence and motivation.

Students have been working hard under the umbrella of the Club to materialize their ideas.

Achievements

Invited STMicroelectronics to campus for knowledge exchange session.

2nd Prize in INNOVISION’ 08, NSIT Delhi

5th & 7th positions at Techkriti’09, IIT Kanpur

Under graduation (B.Tech) projects in robotics taken for the 1st time.

Conducted workshops at Aligarh College of Engg & Iqra Public School. Proposals from AMITY Lucknow and many more.

Industrial trip and Demo at STMicroelectronics Noida.

Musfira Jilani, Ibad-ur-Rehman, Ashti Saleem won 2nd Prize in Microcontroller’s Challenge at Innovision ‘08 held at NSIT New Delhi.

Islam A. Khan, Minhaz Ahmad, Saif Rehman, Md. Hasnain stood 8th (on 75 teams) in Line Follower Robot Competition at Innovision ‘08 held at NSIT New Delhi.

Saif Rehman, Musfira Jilani, Saba Khan stood 5th (on 25 teams) in RoboGames – RoboEx at Techkriti ’09 in IIT Kanpur.

Tofiq Ali, Aftab Alam, Md Reyaz stood 7th (on 25 teams) in RoboGames- RoboEx at Techkriti ’08 in IIT Kanpur.

Minhaz & Harshul, Rameez & Zubair, Deepak were Finalists (Top 10) in Analogic at Techkriti ’08 in IIT Kanpur.

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Musfira Jilani (Electronics IV) was awarded the SIAR scholarship by University of Maynooth (Ireland).

Mohammad Zaid & Arjun Jauhari (Electronics IV) won the 4th prize in the national level competition

“Smart Car Race India – 2010” organized by Freescale Semiconductor India, in collaboration with the

Center for Electronic Design and Technology (CEDT) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Shahbaz Khan (Computer IV) was awarded the best student by TATA Consultancy Services.

Sarfaraz Khan (Computer IV) presented a Reseach paper on GSM Mobiles in ICMLC 2011 (organized by

IACSIT and IEEE in Singapore conference)

Faraz Ahmad (Electrical II) stood as a Finalist in Utkarsh, a Paper Presentation competition at Techfest

held in IIT Bombay.

Shahbaz Khan and Faraz Ahmad and Developed a Low Cost Web Monitor for Video Surveillance.

Achievements Ibadur Rahman, S. Anwer Ali & Md. Nazibullah won 1st prize in J K White Design Challenge

Competition Techkriti ‘10, IIT Kanpur.

Sarfraz Alam Khan, Mohd Tariq & Farhad Ilahi Baksh won 1st prize: Paper Presentation Cognizance ‘10, IIT Roorki.

Sarfraz Alam Khan, Mohd Tariq & Farhad Ilahi Baksh won 3rd prize at Solar Conference IIT Roorki.

Md. Mohsin Ahsan Finalist in Paper Presentation at Techstar ‘10, Hyderabad.

Ibadur Rahman won 3rd prize in the Paper Presentation at Techstar ’10, Hyderabad.

Conducted Workshop at Jamia Millia Islamia.

Conducted Junkyard Wars at Zarf, ZHCET.

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Since 2011, more and more students participated in national level competitions that were organized in several IITs and stood among

the top three positions in nearly all the events. The participation from the club was over 40 in just Techkriti ’11 and around 80, if

overall participation is seen. Also, several new projects were developed to solve some specific industrial problems.

Achievements

Shagufta

Selected for Summer Internship at IISc Bangalore.

Faraz Ahmad

Won second prize at HACKATHON- organized by planning commission of India.

Presented Research Papers at IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, AMU, MANIT Bhopal and MNNIT Allahabad in various IEEE Conferences.

Published a research Paper in International Journal.

Stood 3rd at LEAU- The intervarsity presentation completion in AMU.

Developed 4 projects under the Club.

Salman Kashif:

1st prize in a presentation at the National Symposium at AMU organized by ULC, AMU.

Stood 2nd in paper presentation in Cognizance ‘11 at IIT Roorki.

Stood 2nd in Hydrology Quiz at Cognizance ’11 at IIT Roorki.

Stood 3rd in Spectrum in Cognizance ’11 at IIT Roorki. Stood 3rd in Follow Me at Paradigm in ZHCET, AMU.

Stood 2nd in Technical Race at Uqaab in Aligarh Muslim University.

Ambreen Bano:

Stood 2nd in Hackathon 13.

Stood 1st in Paper Presentation at Paradigm, ZHCET AMU.

Stood 1st in Paper Presentation at Tech Innover at ZHCET AMU

Stood 1st in Paper Presentation at CarpeDiem at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 1st in Workshop on Multimedia and Applications at AMU.

Stood 1st in Novanate at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 2nd in Myth ’12 at Mangalaytan University.

Stood 2nd in Application Development in Barqq at AMU.

Mohammad Asif, Shahrukh Ashraf and Yoshita Bardhan.

Stood 3rd in Paper Presentation at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 2nd in Junkyard Wars 2.0 at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 2nd in Follow Me 2.0 at ZHCET AMU.

Stood 3rd at Pirate Wars held at IIT Bombay.

Stood 2nd at in Project Competition in Proyekto at AMU.

Sameerah Desnavi and Sehrish Khan

Stood 1st in Paper Presentation in Techfest at IIT Bombay.

Stood 2nd in Project Competition in Proyekto at AMU.

2011 till date

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Since 2012, the process

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The projects are

preserved in form of

Digital Posters and

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Visit:-

www.amuroboclub.in/projects.html

for further information and the archived

projects.

The members of the club learn and develop innovative ideas and implement it for the betterment of humanity.

Recently, the Club has started Online Summer School under the name of “ROBO-SUMMER 13”. The main purpose

was to utilize the vacations in building socially useful projects. The project under RoboSummer 13 were mentored

and Completely Funded by the AMU RoboClub Alumni.

The following projects were the outcome of this initiative:

Duration: One Month

Net Cost: ` 5,500/-

Mentors: Md Umair, Faraz Ahmad

All the projects can be accessed from the following URL: www.amuroboclub.in/projects.html

Recent Projects

Duration: 6 days

Net Cost: ` 3,500/-

Mentors: Mohammad Umair

Duration: 36 Hours

Net Cost: ` 2,000/-

Mentors: Mohammad Umair

Android Based

Location Alarm

-Benazeer Khan, Keerti

Singh, Mohammad

Amaan Amjad

Automatic

Shutdown of

Electricity

-Mohammad Asif, Manish

Tomar, Kush Pandey

Automatic Water

Level Indicator

and Controller

- Rafeeda Siddiqui,

Nazia Noor

Autonomous

BUGGY- Driverless

Taxi

-Faraz Ahmad

Autonomous Fire

Fighting Robot

-Saif Rehman

Autonomous

Monochromatic

Line Follower Robot

-Tofik Ali, Saif Rehman &

Others

Autonomous Path

Finder Robot

-Team Members

Bubble Bursting

Game

-Shubhi Aggarwal

Controlling Home

Appliances by

SMS

-Abdullah Azhar Ali

Khan

Digital Voltmeter

and Ammeter and

Digital Clock

-Team Members

Energy

Management Using

Face Detection

-Faraz Ahmad

Autonomous

Electroplating

Station

- Zainab Zaheer, Anand

Agarwal, Udit

ROBO

SUMMER13

File Joiner and

Splitter

-Shivani Agarwal,

Deeksha Singh

Image

Steganography

-Nishi Agarwal

Braille Touch

- Shahrukh Ashraf,

Rajat Agarwal

Power Meter

Reading by SMS

-Prateek Rakesh Singh,

Sonam Agarwal

Railway Signaling

System for FOG

Mitigation

-Faraz Ahmad, Sidhika

Varshney, Aditi Varshney

Remote Controlled

Aircraft

-Shahrukh Ashraf,

Mohammad Asif, Yoshita

Bardhan

RFID Based

Autonomous

Vehicle

-Shahrukh Ashraf, Faraz

Ahmad

Robotic Arm with

3 DOF

-Shahrukh Ashraf,

Yoshita Bardhan,

Mohammad Asif

Robotic Writing

Arm

-Musfira Jilani

Solar Bottles

Lighting for Homes

-Arpit Garg, Prakhar

Agarwal

Staircase Climber

-Parwez Alam

Obstacle Avoider

- Zameerul Hasan

Student Desk

-Rajat Agarwal,

Tushark Bansal,

Saurabh Agarwal

Security System

for Microsoft

Office Files

-Ambreen Bano

Vision Based

Barcode Reader

- Faraz Ahmad,

Shagufta, Dilnasheen

Anwar

Data Logging with

Micro SD Card

-Haris,Aftab, Shazan,

Rashid

Smart Home

-Mohammad Asif,

Mohammad Asaad,

Sameerah, Sehrish,

Yoshita

Development of

ATMEGA-16L Based

Basic Calculator

-Abu Talha Danish

Weather Station,

Airborne* (AWS)

-Team Members under

Shahrukh Ashraf, Faraz

Ahmad

Web Monitor-

Video Surveillance

Robot

-Shahbaz Khan, Faraz

Ahmad

Wireless

Controlled Robot

-Amit Kumar Chawla,

Mukul Pandey

Wireless

Telemedicine

-Sarfaraz Alam

Generating Pattern

on LED Matrix

using Speech

Recognition

-Ambreen Bano

Vision Based

Fingerprint

Scanner

- Prateek Rakesh Singh,

Sonam Agarwal

Finance Flow AMU RoboClub is an initiative by the students and hence the contribution comes from the

students only. The members are enrolled by paying a very small sum of ` 80/- per year! This

amount covers the expenses for each member’s requirement in the club including hand-outs,

tutorials, info-Portal (AMU RoboClub’s Knowledge Bank), publicity and promotion materials and a

Certificate of Membership. The Club received some contribution in form of Equipment and a

working space in 2012. This was facilitated by the then Principal of Zakir Husain College of

Engineering and Technology, Professor Ekram Husain. The workshops on embedded systems and

robotics and other developing areas is organized in college at the break-even point.

The projects that are developed under the club are a result of member’s sole financial contribution

involved in that project. A sum of ` 500/- on an average are spent on small projects and over

` 5000/- on larger projects (that too is managed by the students involved in that project). This year

some alumni contributed and funded for the “ROBOSUMMER 13” under which three projects are

build till date and one under development. AMU RoboClub contributes to these project

developments by providing existing equipment and a working space along with mentorship and

guidance.

Funds and Finance

Developments so Far

•AMU RoboClub

Established

•MICROB Held

2008

2009 •Annual Workshop Robonics held first time •Industrial Trip to STM

2010 •Innovate Program Started •Workshop held at Colleges in NCR

2011 •Horizon Expanded to complete Faculty of Engineering & Technology

2012 •AMU RoboClub gets an Office Space. •Funded by the Principal, for Incubation Center •Tech Innover Held •Alumni Interaction Sessions organized •ZHCET Technical Mentorship Program Starts

More to come till the end of 2013

2012-13 HIGHLIGHTS

The Team

Patron

Prof Hamid Ali (Dean)

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Prof Ekram Husain (Principal)

Z H College of Engineering and Technology

Teacher In Charge

Prof Ekram Khan (Department of Electronics Engineering)

Faculty Advisors

Prof Izharuddin

(Dept of Computer Engg)

Prof Abid Ali Khan

(Dept of Mechanical Engg)

Dr Anwar Sadat

(Dept of Electronics Engg)

M Rihan Alvi

(Dept of Electrical Engg)

Coordinator (Session 2013)

Mr Shahrukh Ashraf (Dept of Electronics) Mr Mohammad Asif (Dept of Electrical) Ms Sidhika Varshney (Dept of Electronics)

Foundation Stone

Patron

(Late) Prof Muslim Taj Ahmad

(Principal Session-2008)

Z H College of Engineering and Technology

Teacher In Charge

Prof Ekram Khan

(Department of Electronics

Engineering)

Prof Iqbal Ahmad Khan

(Department of Electronics

Engineering)

Alumni Team

Mr Mohammad Umair

(SAMSUNG India)

Mr Sayem Ahsan (DMRC India)

Mr Adil

Mehmood

(HAL India)

On Campus Lead Team

Mr. Abed Mohammad

Kalamuddin

Mr. Yasir Khan

Mr. Parvez Alam

Ms. Kirti Srivastava

Ms. Raziyah Shamim

Mr. Arshad Iqbal

Mr. Abdullah Azhar Ali

Khan (ADOBE)

Mr. Ankit Agarwal

Mr. Abhishek

Former Coordinators Session

Mr. Parvez Alam (BSNL)

Ms. Kirti Srivastava

Mr. Arshad Iqbal

Ms. Raaziyah Shamim

2008

Mr. Parvez Alam (BSNL)

Mr. Islam Ahmad Khan (CSC)

Mr. Harshul Varshney

Ms. Binish Fatimah (IITD)

Mr. Fahad Ali Usmani

Mr. Mohammad Hasnain

2008-2009

Mr. Minhaz Ahmad (IES)

Mr. Tofiq Ali Chauhan (AMU) 2009-2010

Mr. Ibadur Rahman (DTU)

Mr. Shahbaz Khan (IITK)

Mr. Sarfaraz Alam (TCS)

Ms. Musfira Jilani (University of Dublin, Ireland)

2010-2011

Mr. Saif Rehman (PGCIL)

Mr. Zameerul Hasan (TCS) 2011-2012

Mr. Faraz Ahmad (IITD)

Mr. Amit K Chawla (IITB)

Ms. Shagufta (TCS)

2012-2013

Founding Members Former Coordinators

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