An AI-powered robotic rover or drone system that monitors underground mine conditions and helps rescue teams locate trapped workers.
Governmcnt of Jharkhand · Department of Higher & Technical Education · Hardware
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Robotic Hardware System
A rugged ground rover or compact aerial drone capable of operating in underground mining environments.
Sensor Array
Sensors to detect toxic gases, monitor temperature, humidity, and structural conditions.
Vision Modules
Thermal and night-vision cameras to provide live video and thermal imaging data.
Wireless Communication
Modules to transmit real-time data from underground to a surface control station.
Surface Control Station
An interface for rescue teams to view real-time mine conditions and assist in locating trapped workers.
Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.
The jury will check whether the system can operate in hazardous underground environments, transmit real-time sensor and video data to the surface, and assist in detecting hazards and trapped workers.
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What specific types of toxic gases must be detected?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
What wireless communication protocols work underground without standard cellular signals?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
What the exact dimensions or weight limits of the rover or drone are?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.
Each one is quoted from a gap in the brief, not a guess about your team.
Needs physical hardware
Listed as a hardware problem statement, so a working demo needs physical components you have to source yourself.
Needs data you may not get
The problem requires a physical robotic rover or drone to operate in actual underground mining environments.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
Same organisation, same year. Reading two of theirs tells you more about what they care about than reading one.
Pick what you are about to do and copy the prompt. It carries the organisers' own wording, the constraints they never spell out, and an instruction not to invent requirements they never set.
Who has this problem, what already exists, and what you would have to find out.
The brief asks for robotic hardware system. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26039 itself — A rugged ground rover or compact aerial drone capable of operating in underground mining environments. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for sensor array. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26039 itself — Sensors to detect toxic gases, monitor temperature, humidity, and structural conditions. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for vision modules. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26039 itself — Thermal and night-vision cameras to provide live video and thermal imaging data. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for wireless communication. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26039 itself — Modules to transmit real-time data from underground to a surface control station. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for surface control station. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26039 itself — An interface for rescue teams to view real-time mine conditions and assist in locating trapped workers. The brief asks for it by name.
Where does your data come from — a published source, one you collect, or one you generate?
No dataset is attached to this problem statement, so sourcing it is part of the work and nobody told you that.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
Ours, not a rule: a narrow thing that fully works survives questioning better than a broad thing that half works. If nobody on the team can name it, that is the finding.
Show me this working: the jury will check whether the system can operate in hazardous underground environments, transmit real-time sensor and video data to the surface, and assist in detecting hazards and trapped workers.
This is the evaluator read for your problem statement, decoded from the brief's own wording.