International Defense Exhibition and Conference

Summary

Our Engineering and Science department participated in the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX). The conference was held in ADNEC from 17th to 21st of February, 2019. IDEX is the only international defense exhibition and conference in the MENA region demonstrating the latest technology across land, sea and air sectors of defense. It is a unique platform to establish and strengthen relationships with government departments, businesses and armed forces throughout the region.

In the conference, the department had a booth to show our project "Tele-operated Robot for Mars Exploration and Sample Collection". The prototype have many developed modules for key board navigation to tele-operate the robot, vision-based navigation to identify and locate objects of interest and sensor- based modules for obstacle avoidance.