The popular vote award is based on online voting of all submissions. The team from India got over 204 votes to become the winner of the Popular Vote Award
“This award has given us international recognition and a boost to our future,” said Rushabh Doshi. “We would like to thank National Instruments and our professors, because we couldn’t have done it without them LabVIEW excellent choice because it is extremely user-friendly, flexible and cost-effective. The experience of working with LabVIEW had been excellent and we would love to continue to use LabVIEW for our higher studies and professional careers.”
“We are excited and proud that the team from India has won this award,” said Solaikutty Dhanbal, academic manager at National Instruments India. “Our academic program in India encourages students to become better and more employable engineers through experiential learning. This team should inspire younger students to supplement classroom learning with real-world, hands-on experience. We are equipping students with tools to find solutions for some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, ranging from improving medical devices to bringing mobile phone coverage to rural areas.”
To learn more about the NI Student Design Competition, visit ni.com/studentdesign
Abstract of the Winning Project
General industrial robotic systems consist of a robotic manipulator, a controller board and a teach pendant used to reach the robot the desired task. The teach pendant can be complicated and too difficult to program by an un-skilled employee in a factory. The primary motive of this project was to develop a simple yet effective teach pendant for robotic systems which would be open-sourced and re-programmable. By keeping the hardware the same, we can program the SCARA system to work for pick and place operation or-paint operation or CNC cutting operation. This is possible through the virtual teach pendant we developed using LabVIEW.
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