Recognition and results

On 21 December 2016, the Daily Kaler Kantha published a feature on Cybernauts 2016, one of the country's largest inter-university technology competitions, organised by the North South University Computer and Engineering Club from 28 to 31 October 2016. The event had four segments: a Line Follower Robot Contest, a programming contest, an engineering project showcase and a cyber athletics contest. The article opens its coverage with our team, DUET Robo Express, champions of the Line Follower Robot Contest. Ninety-five teams competed, including teams from the University of Dhaka, North South University, BRAC University and MIST. Only eight reached the semi-final and four the final, where our robot completed the course, with its sharp turns and a small bridge, in just 57 seconds. It was the best-performing robot in all three rounds, ahead of the runner-up team from MIST, and won us the championship and Tk 25,000. The feature introduces our team members: Emran Hossain and me from the Department of EEE, and Ananda Kumar Saha from Mechanical Engineering, all final-year students at the time, who met through the DUET Robotics Club. It describes how we built the robot over two months, with a design that reads the track in real time instead of following a pre-programmed route, and lists our earlier results: 2nd Runner-up at the RUET RoboTour and Programming Contest and at Mecceleration 2015, then 1st Runner-up at Robo-Droid 2016, 2nd Runner-up at the Global Robotics Challenge 2016 Bangladesh round and Champion at ROBOLUTION 2016.