The students of IIT Madras have adopted defence technology as the theme for their flagship summit this year in response to the Prime Ministers call that IITs should contribute to indigenisation of defence. Further they are focusing on disruptive technologies and attempting to solve real life problems of the Armed Forces. They are also attempting to set up a start up eco system so that the youth of the nation can contribute to making India great. It is a pioneering effort which deserves attention and participation of all those who are in this field and are interested.
What is Shaastra?
Shaastra, the annual technical fest conducted by IIT Madras, is the first fully student-run, non-profit, ISO certified technical fest in India, receiving a footfall of more than 75,000 each year.
The Defence Tech Summit
Each year, the Summit is based on a central theme based on boosting unconventional, upcoming fields of technology – with the intent of understanding the manner in which the students of IIT Madras, can positively impact the field and help the community.
The national discourse is being dominated by Defence and Defence Technology. It has, propelled Shaastra to join the debate by providing defence technology enthusiasts with an opportunity to congregate, debate and learn about the topic. The Defence Tech Summit is being conducted from 3-5 January 2020 (https://summit.shaastra.org/). Eminent speakers with hands on experience in defence matters and relevant subjects have consented to participate in the event. they include Dr Sateesh Reddy , DG and Secy DRDO, Lt Gen Satish Dua former CISC and Shri JD Patil Director, L&T. The topics will covers trends and innovation in defence technologies, disruption in defence technologies to include AI, Robotics, Cybertechnoloy, AR/VR, Spatial technologies and so on. Special focus will be on an ecosystem for defence start ups.
Defence Innovation Challenge
Our flagship event, as part of the Defence Tech Summit is the Defence Innovation Challenge, a semester long competition that urges participants to come up with tech-based solutions for problems in the field of defence,on three tracks AI, Robotics and AR/VR. This is being conducted for the Armed forces through the HQ Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) and in collaboration with L&T Defence, L&T-Nxt, DRDO and Newspace Research & Technologies. To register and know more about DIC please go to the link: https://d2c.pw/88566. This is a perfect opportunity to inspire and educate the youth of our country and motivate them to explore the field of defence technology. The last date to submit the idea proposals is November November 4th. Selected teams will be showcasing the final prototypes at Shaastra 2020. The topics for the challenge are below.
Robotics
To design a swarm of 5 ground-bound
robots, working using a collaborative efficient algorithm and mesh
communication system in a dynamic obstacle environment
Artificial Intelligence
To build an end to end NLP analysis
application to detect, classify and translate audio from various
sources.
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Augmented and Virtual Reality based high fidelity
aircraft training simulator for training pilots on a selected or generic fixed/rotary
wing aircraft in various terrains and flying conditions with near realistic feel of flying profiles such as valley flying, low
level flying, basic air combat, night flying ( moon light conditions and dark
night conditions) etc , integrated with georeferenced satellite pictures and
terrain maps
Requests
The Shaastra organsing team requests all serving and retired members of the Armed Forces and officials of the MOD and DRDO to participate and guide them in the event. This event is dedicated to the Armed Forces.
The Shaastra team requests maximum participation of the defence industry in the event to show case their capablities and also to motivate students to take up defence technology as a career option. it is also requested that teams local to your area are given full support to participate and show case their talent.
All defence startups are specially requested to come forward and participate in the event so that the defence start up eco sysytem in the country is put on track.
Contacts
SAARTHAK MARATHE
HEAD, TEAM SUMMIT9769900339, saarthakmarathe1@gmail.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/saarthakmarathe99PRANAV HARI
HEAD, TEAM SUMMIT9123507996, pranavhari345@gmail.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/pranav-hari
Excellent and well thought through initiative. I hope you are collaborating with Industry, especially with the more R&D intensive companies. SITARA is with you.
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