University President Inaugurates Robotics and Devices Exhibition in the Control Engineering Department
The President of the University of Technology, Professor Dr. Mohsen Nouri Hamza, inaugurated the eleventh exhibition of robots and devices manufactured for student projects and technology incubators, held by the Automation and Robotics Research Unit in the Control and Systems Engineering Department. The event was attended by the Head of the Department, Professor Dr. Ahmed Sabah Al-Araji, and a number of faculty members and staff from the department and university.
The opening of the exhibition is part of the university’s golden jubilee celebrations.
The President of the University of Technology stated, “We reviewed the projects of the Control and Systems Engineering Department, which are distinguished projects, industrial and applied projects. We call them projects of the College of Control and Systems Engineering because a ministerial order was issued to transform the departments into colleges, and we will issue the relevant university order.”
The exhibition featured 113 projects, including technology incubators, including a project titled “Smart Control of Access to Revolving Parking Lots” by students Zahraa Riyadh, Fatima Yahya, and Rahma Maher, majoring in Control Engineering. The project aims to design and implement a miniature model of a vertical rotating garage with a capacity of six cars, using RFID technology and ultrasonic sensors to provide a smart entry and exit control system. The system facilitates the automatic parking and retrieval of cars, contributing to increased efficiency and space savings. This project is a smart solution to the parking problem that can be applied in crowded cities, commercial areas, and residential complexes. There is also a project on a smart robot car that can repel obstacles and is controlled via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, with human tracking sensors, by Nour Al-Huda Kazim, a computer engineering major in the computer science department. A cane project for the blind was also presented by Zahraa Mohammed Dawood and Rasul Naseer, majoring in control engineering. The smart cane project for the blind aims to provide an effective and safe means of assistance for the visually impaired by integrating modern technologies into a simple-to-use tool. The cane relies on ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles in front of the user and sends immediate alerts using a vibration motor and a buzzer when objects approach. A quadcopter tracking system project for students Mohammed Taqi Ismail, Mohammed Adnan and Suhail Ahmed, specializing in control. The purpose of the project and its applications is to design a rotor equipped with a camera that can track moving objects or people with high accuracy using meshes and filters capable of distinguishing these objects and tracking them. It is used in military and security fields for monitoring or in reconnaissance and detection teams to detect areas that are difficult for humans to reach, etc.
