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Aritra, an IIT Madras student team, finished third globally and earned the Sustainability Award in the Njord Challenge 2023, which was recently sponsored by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras students received a financial prize of 10,000 NOK (Norwegian Krone) for their achievement.
The competition is open to students with the purpose of inspiring innovation and smart autonomy solutions for the marine area. The competition also provides students with the opportunity for professional development and networking.
This time, seven elite international teams competed, including one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
Mohammed Ibrahim M, Amarnath Singh, Akash Vijayakumar, and Rakshin Ramesh are members of IIT Madras' Team Aritra, which is made up of four students from the Department of Ocean Engineering's Marine Autonomous Vessels (MAV) Laboratory. They were supervised by Dr. Abhilash Sharma Somayajula and Prof. MA Atmanand of IIT Madras. Prabhakaran Jay and Vallabh Deogaonkar from the MAV Laboratory also assisted the team.
The autonomous surface ships were tested in three areas: ability to autonomously navigate in a channel marked by navigational buoys, ability to dock the vessel autonomously, and ability to detect and avoid dynamic obstacles while adhering to waterway rules (also known as COLREGS).
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Autonomous Ship Challenge is an international student competition in which contestants must design and construct an autonomous ship. Teams are encouraged to bring their vessels to the fjord of Trondheim to compete in a number of tasks and competitions.
“There exists an opportunity for Indian industry and startups to take this up on a commercial basis under the ‘Make in India’ program of the Government of India,” said Professor V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras.
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