The current tech scenario is all about Android OS. Now it has got control over the smart phone market with a wide range of apps and lot more features. The major brand that’s now taking the lion share of the market is Samsung with its galaxy versions and tabs. Apple Inc.’s rivals have been selling tablets that aim to compete with the iPad, but their year-long conquest has been futile. Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest seller of desktops and laptops, has given up, opting to send its TouchPads to $99 fire-sales. Even worse is that Samsung Electronics is already facing defeat even before it could put its Galaxy S Tab device on shelves.
Till a few years back, Nokia’s Symbian OS was the leading smartphone OS in the world. But, with the entry of Android and iOS, Nokia started struggling to keep up the pace with the new players. Not the one to be left behind in competing with these other operating systems, Nokia has released the Symbian Anna OS. But, it also failed to capture the mob minds. A glance at the Android 2.3 – Gingerbread OS explains why the Android platform has become one of the most Popular operating systems in the world.
Forget Anna!
A video showcasing Nokia’s up-and-coming Symbian Belle operating system has appeared online ahead of its official launch. Belle is the update that’ll succeed Anna.
The updated Symbian UI looks great. The new-look MeeGo-esque icons, the dropdown notifications system is a good call, as is the updated virtual keyboard and camera UI. Will it take over the Android??
Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multi-robot systems which consist of large numbers of simple physical robots. Swarm Robotics is a technological advancement in Mobile Robotics. The main focus of this workshop is to introduce to the students various methods of communication that can be used to transfer data between multiple machines.
This approach emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects, ants and other fields in nature, where swarm behaviour occurs. The swarm behaviour involves constant change of individuals in cooperation with others, as well as the behaviour of the whole group. A key-component is the communication between the members of the group that build a system of constant feedback. The model of distributed computing — using many computers to work on a single large task — is somewhat similar. Unlike distributed computing, however, each individual in swarm robotics deals with unique stimuli.
Potential applications for swarm robotics include tasks that demand for miniaturization (nanorobotics, microbotics), like distributed sensing tasks in micro machinery or the human body. On the other hand swarm robotics can be suited to tasks that demand cheap designs, for instance mining tasks or agricultural foraging tasks.
What we deal in the workshop are:
Artificial intelligence
Short and long range wireless communication
Sensor network
Mechanical structure analysis and design
Making a line follower robot and grid solving robot
Communicating a robot with a PC, through radio frequency
Implementation of swarm intelligence
Students can participate as a team of three and each team will be provided with a takeaway robo kit. The students will have to pay a registration fee of Rs 1400 per head. We will be providing an advanced Swarm Robotics Kit for each team and you can take away the kit after workshop.
Duration:
The workshop is for 2 consecutive days, 28th and 29th of January, 2011.
Accommodation:
Accommodation is available for ladies and gents in hostels run by catholic nuns and priests on prior re quest.
Contact Us:
Abin Puthiyath: 09495642933
Babu Varghese: 09447727932
www.azure11.com
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