Mars Rover Manipal

Check out this incredible photograph of Rover 'Nakshatra', designed and developed by Team Mars Rover Manipal for the International Rover Challenge (IRC) 2025! The judges have selected this photo for the Social Media Bonus Task. The winner will be determined by the number of likes received on this post within 72 hours of its posting. So, if you like the design, please double-tap! The International Rover Challenge (IRC) by the Space Robotics Society is a competition that challenges university students to conceptualize, design, develop, and operate a next-generation space rover that can assist astronauts and perform specific missions in simulated Mars conditions. The objective of the competition is to provide students with a real-world interdisciplinary engineering experience that combines practical engineering skills with soft skills such as business planning and project management. *** #SpaceRoboticsSociety #SpaceRobotics #SPROS #IRC #RoverChallenge #InternationalRoverChallenge #IRC2025 #SprosWeek

🚀 Mars Rover Manipal is ready for IRC 2025! 🌌 https://lnkd.in/d2uUkg8G We are thrilled to announce the successful submission of our SDDR (System Design and Development Review) for the International Rover Challenge (IRC) 2025, organized by the Space Robotics Society (SPROS) ! 🎉 This prestigious event will take place from 28th January to 2nd February 2025 at the BITS Pilani Goa Campus, where teams from across the globe will showcase their innovation and engineering excellence in planetary rover development. 🌍🌌 Our rover for this year, "Nakshatra" , is equipped with advanced technologies and innovative systems designed to excel in exploration and autonomy. With a multidisciplinary team behind it, we aim to make a mark in this exciting challenge. 💡 Stay tuned as we gear up for yet another incredible journey in the world of robotics and space exploration! 🌠 #MarsRoverManipal #IRC2025 #Nakshatra #SpaceExploration #Robotics #EngineeringExcellence #Teamwork

We are excited to announce that our research paper, "LAqua: Laplacian Pyramids for Aquatic Segmentation," has been accepted as a Student Abstract at AAAI25! Congratulations to the authors, Laven Srivastava and Ishaan Gakhar, for their collaboration in bringing this project to life. This study explores lightweight Laplacian pyramid models for efficient aquatic segmentation, particularly for use on Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Drones. The novel approach offers significant potential for real-time monitoring of aquatic environments, enabling quicker detection of hazards like oil spills, which can be critical for minimizing environmental damage and ensuring maritime safety. Looking forward to presenting this work at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025.

We are thrilled to share that our work, "AgriLLM: Harnessing Transformers for Farmer Queries” has been accepted at the undergraduate track of International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,a highly reputed A* conference. Authors Krish Didwania (*), Pratinav Seth (*), Aditya Kasliwal , Amit Agarwal. In this study, we investigate the use of sequence-to-sequence transformer models to automate the resolution of agricultural queries, using a dataset of real-world farmer inquiries. A significant challenge identified is generating responses that are easily understood by farmers, taking into account linguistic and dialectal differences. To improve the quality and clarity of the generated responses, we employ Gemini model checkpoints to refine and rephrase outputs, ensuring the final results are both accurate and accessible. Accepted paper preprint: https://lnkd.in/gHzTr2wh As a part of the submission ,Krish Didwania has been selected to be a part of KDD Undergraduate Consortium 2024 and has been awarded with grants for registration and travel expenses for attending KDD 2024 at Barcelona,Spain.

Team Mars Rover Manipal- outstanding performance in the International 'Rover Challenge 2024' Congratulations to Team Mars Rover Manipal on your outstanding performance in the International 'Rover Challenge 2024'. Your exceptional achievements, including winning awards for the best task in IDMO and RDO, completing the mission in record time, and bringing back the trophy after six years, truly showcase your dedication and excellence. Outranking top universities including prestigious IITs and emerging victorious in such a fierce competition with participants from around the globe is a remarkable feat. Your hard work, perseverance, and teamwork have undoubtedly paid off, and we couldn't be prouder of your success. Well done team. -Director MIT Manipal

Congratulations and best of luck, loopMIT🎉🥳. And as always, keeploopin!

Congratulations loopMIT! All the best, and as always, #keeploopin !

We are proud to announce that we have qualified for the Finals of the Space Robotics Society (SPROS) International Rover Challenge 2023! Follow this link to show us your support for the Bonus Round, and help us win: https://lnkd.in/g8dhPceb