The Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems (CRIS) came into existence in the year 1992. Earlier it was known as Centre for Robotics (CFR). Prior to that there was an informal research group working in this then emerging area. This research group at CRIS has acquired in-depth technical skills in design and fabrication of robot manipulators, AGVs, devising intelligent control strategies for both manipulator and navigation and their real time implementations.

The objective of this Centre is to develop prototypes that provide greater intelligence and higher versatility for robotic tasks under ever-changing constraints of the environment. This objective is set forth to make Indian industry competitive by developing indigenous technical skills, manpower and innovative spirit. Each prototype is developed in four different stages: (i) conceptualization, (ii) algorithmic development and verification in simulated environment, (iii) real-time testing and (iv) integration to automated system. The CRIS is very well equipped and is aiming to explore the possibilities of creating virtual intelligence in animated systems. The new computing systems will be based upon the virtual cognitive machines for solving the real world perception, reasoning and decision making problems. The research group of CRIS has its members from Electrical & Electronics, Instrumentation, Mechanical and Computer Science. Besides faculty members, many students from various disciplines work on different projects at CRIS for their doctoral thesis, M.E. dissertations and first degree thesis.
The Centre for Robotics has collaborations with CAIR, Bangalore, BARC, Mumbai and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Current activities of this Centre are in areas such as mechanical design and fabrication of articulated SCARA and direct drive manipulators, autonomous guided vehicles for uneven terrains and walking robots; dynamic control of robot arm, adaptive and robust control, modelling and control using neural and fuzzy neural networks; real-time control using DSP and micro controller based controller card; path planning, development of infra-red and ultrasonic based obstacle avoidance module, fusion of vision with ultrasonic based sensing system, global and local path planning in both static and dynamic environment; robotic vision, visuo-motor coordination, visual tracking, active vision and object recognition; intelligent system design, machine learning, computation and virtual reality.

Water resources are fast diminishing world wide and the quality of the available water has also deteriorated over time. There is a need to conserve this important natural resource through education, training, technology driven systems approach, etc. Israel and some other countries have done pioneering work in the area of desert development technologies. The Ben Gurion University in Israel has developed technologies for conservation of water in irrigation, particularly the drip irrigation systems. In India, some companies have taken know how from Israel for the production of drip irrigation systems. Further, rapid developments have taken place in integrated computer based sensors and associated wireless systems. By developing wireless sensor systems, a higher level of sensor technology is possible. Tissue culture and biotechnology have revolutionised the development of new variety of plants, etc. Thus there is a need to develop advanced technologies in this area for conservation of water, energy etc. and improve productivity.

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Over the years BITS has proven & proudly owns a legacy dating from 1970’s when most of the nation was unfamiliar with terms “Entrepreneurship & Startups”. A strongest alumni entrepreneur’s BITS family tree consisting of largest alumni network available of serial entrepreneurs, investors, VC’s & mentors, corporate professionals. The institute has highly experienced and trained faculty members and mentors in the area of entrepreneurship, research & Innovation along with eco-system to promote innovation start-up culture.

BITS Pilani is proud to be a core part of the Indian start-up ecosystem, with our alumni rising to great heights, building companies like Swiggy, Big Basket and Red Bus to name a few. Often, such ideas or the fire are born in college hostels, and through the passion of the founders, grow up to be such giants. BITSians swear by the spirit of entrepreneurship, and it is this spirit that we are trying to thrive by our never-ending sincere efforts.

BITS Pilani looks at inculcating innovation and entrepreneurship in the minds of people from the first year itself, it has a dedicated department called CIIE- BITS Pilani for each campus (Centre of Incubation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship) from the beginning of 21st Century that holds a series of projects that promote innovation & entrepreneurial spirit around the campuses pushing people to identify and solve problems around them. Each campus has a state of Art Technology Business incubator help in creating, identifying and enhancing budding entrepreneurs, pushing the potential start-ups with necessary resources.

Institute also offers a specific designed academic course drawn from years of experience for budding entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship enthusiasts called New venture creation(NVC) where students work on an idea and take it into implementation getting hands-on experience and getting some time with the few innovators who have walked the path.

Each campus has a dedicated Student E-Cell where student engage freely in the leadership role of activities and events promoting entrepreneurship not only restricted to campus but nationwide. It provides them exposure to the current trends, engage with serial entrepreneurs, experts, leaders and learn to hone their skills on managing a thriving Ecosystem.

With all of these initiatives by the BITS Pilani administration and the student-run CEL, the entrepreneurial spirit in BITS is heading in the right direction with over 25 start-ups hustling at different scale and domains and many more are on sleeves. The growth in passion has walked hand in hand with the growth in results.

The Technology Business Incubator at BITS Pilani was set up in 2004, and formally inducted into a separate not-for-profit society called Pilani Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (PIEDS), in 2012. Since inception, the incubator has played a pivotal role in supporting 75 startups, and many more who did not graduate and folded up. 

The Incubator has been instrumental in defining and supporting an innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship ecosystem at the Pilani Campus. Directly or indirectly, the incubator has motivated and inspired many BITSians to take up entrepreneurship. As per an estimate, BITS students and alumni have formed more than 300 startups after the incubator was set up in 2004, which may be attributed to the incubator and the ecosystem created in BITS, with many of them creating economic value for investors, and leading to job creation.

To know more about the incubator and reach out to them, please visit  https://pieds-bitspilani.org/

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About the TLC

The Institute has set up Teaching Learning Centre (TLC). It will be involved in improving the overall teaching - learning environment at BITS Pilani and headed by a Professor-in-charge, who will be supported by Faculty-in-charges from all the four campuses of BITS Pilani. There will be a few nucleus members in each campus to support the Faculty-in-charge. The Centre will carry out research on innovative teaching pedagogy, collection of good practices of teaching learning from all over the world and disseminate among the faculty, conduct intensive teaching workshops and invite experts from India and abroad to deliver lectures on relevant topics.

According to the notification issued by the Office of the Registrar of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani dated 10 June 2015 (Ref. No. N/3), the Teaching-Learning Centre (hereinafter referred to by the acronym TLC) “will be involved in improving the overall teaching-learning environment at BITS Pilani”.

The TLC is mandated with the specific tasks o

• collecting the best teaching-learning practices from around the world towards disseminating these amongst the teaching-learning  community at BITS Pilani
• conducting teaching-learning workshops
• enhancing scholarship on the teaching-learning processes

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Vision

To make BITS Pilani as the leading academic institution for Semiconductor Research and Innovation in India

Mission

To be on the forefront of India’s Mission Level Programs (Semiconductors, Cyber Physical System, and Quantum Tech)

Objectives

• Industry Ready Professionals with career placements in Semiconductor sector
• Cutting edge innovations, Intellectual Property, and Research Publication
• An established ecosystem (infrastructure, resources, and know-how) for students, researchers, and start-ups

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