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JAMMU: Three B.Tech students from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Central University of Jammu, forming Team ID 233, have secured All-India Rank 4th in the prestigious e-Yantra Sprint 1 organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay).
The team comprised Abhinav Kumar (Team Captain), Mehak Sharma, and Harsh Saxena. The students participated in the competition under the guidance of Dr. Harnain Kour (Assistant Professor) and Prof. Neerendra Kumar (Professor), both e-Yantra Coordinators from Central University of Jammu.
This competition involved participation by 1,250 teams in India. In the e-Yantra Sprint 1 competition, there were three major tasks, each involving two subtasks, totaling to six challenges. The participants had to use Coppelia Sim simulation software and Python programming language to achieve the objectives. These tasks involved line following robot, autonomous navigation using PID control, and reinforcement learning usingQ-learning. The challenges also tested their skills in dealing with difficult track maneuvering tasks such as intersections and sharp bends.
e-Yantra is a prestigious robotics outreach program funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and hosted at IIT Bombay . Over more than 17 years of success, the program seeks to encourage project-based learning in areas such as robotics, embedded systems, IoT, and automation.
Demonstrating consistent performance across all tasks, the team emerged at All-India Rank 4th on the national leaderboard. As a reward for their performance, the team won a cash prize of Rs 10,000, certificates of merit and a 3D Printer from IIT Bombay.
Under the dynamic leadership and consistent encouragement of the Honourable Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sanjeev Jain, Central University of Jammu continues to foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and student achievement.Prof. (Dr.) Dinesh Kumar, Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Central University of Jammu, congratulated the team for their exceptional achievement and expressed immense pride in the students for bringing national recognition to the university. HOD encouraged other students to participate in such a highly reputed contest so that they could improve their technical skills and bring prestige to the university on a bigger platform. This achievement emphasizes the innovative and technical culture of Central University of Jammu and also shows the dedication of the university in producing future engineers.
