Team Challengers emerged as the winners of SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2020 (Hardware addition) under the category of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
01-Mar-2021
Team Challengers has added yet another accolade to their mantle by emerging as the winners of SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2020 (Hardware addition) under the category of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset to solve problems and is organized by MHRD, Govt. of India & AICTE.
The team consisting of Srujan U and Jaison D'souza from fourth year Computer Science & Engineering; Manish ES and Swathi from fourth year Electronics & Communication Engineering; Pranav Satish and Jeevan K from third year Electronics & Communication Engineering, and Sohan M Rai from first year, achieved this feat.
The team received the problem statement on Medicine delivery using UAV in hilly regions from the Department of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The team came up with an innovative solution by developing an autonomous hybrid VTOL aircraft with a folding wing configuration, which is efficient for last-mile delivery of medicines in rural and remote areas. The team has also built a prototype of the solution demonstrating all the features of the aircraft through a virtual presentation and submitted a detailed report enumerating the various operations that went into the conceptualization and design of the model aircraft to achieve this feat.
Team Challengers is a unique technical hub that provides massive opportunities in various fields like Aero-modeling, Aerial, and Ground Robotics thus helping students boost their technical skills.
