SLIIT Conference and Symposium Proceedings
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All SLIIT faculties annually conduct international conferences and symposiums. Publications from these events are included in this collection.
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Publication Open Access Human Following Robot(Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, 2023-03-25) Batheegama, M; Mendis, A; Jayawardena, MThe main purpose of this project is to develop a robot that can follow a human to help their activities easy in a well-planned manner. The first implementation of this project is to detect a human and follows the human in a single human environment. The last implementation is to upgrade this into a robot that can detect humans in a busy environment. When designing a robot to work as a human follower it must fulfill some requirements. The issues which are more focused to resolve in here are, the size and mobility while tracking the humans and obstacle detection of the robot. There are many human assistant robots that manufacture small scale in size, but they are not capable of well-assistance and also most of the physically large robots find it hard to assist and handle some activities. Most of the humans following robots are designed for single work, therefore people tend to spend more money on buying robots to fulfill various work. Usually, the components that are used to develop human detection robots are expensive and it is one of the reasons why these types of assistants are expensive. Here, one of the problems which is mobility of the robot while tracking was resolved by developing a more suitable structure, improving the motor-control method, and adding a step-climbing mechanism to the robot. As the robot is manufactured to follow a human, a method to identify a human using image processing is implemented. Also, a method of detecting the position of human is also implemented. And also, the power plan design and all the electronic developments including the power supply unit development and also the power level checker as well has been implemented. Finally in order to make it less complex the circuit has made on PCB.Publication Open Access Factors Influencing University Riots: A Study on a Few Selected Sri Lankan Universities(Emerald Publishing, 2022-12-01) Mendis, A; Yapa, SThis study is conducted to understand the factors influencing student university riots in a few selected universities in Sri Lanka. The aim of the research is to identify factors that impact and cause student riots in the Sri Lankan context. Student riots are the cause of many violent and uncontrollable events that affect both universities and the public. This study will provide quantitative analysis to identify the factors that influence that cause student riots within Sri Lankan universities. This area has been studied within the Sri Lankan context, but very limited factors were found that generally cause student unrest. Some of these factors found in Sri Lankan studies that were factors that caused student unrest were differences in ethnicities, extremist ideologies, and social networking. For the data collection and analysis, a questionnaire will be distributed among 375 students in various public universities in Sri Lanka with a focus on the Western Province which consists of three districts: Colombo, Gampaha, and Kalutara. This research will potentially help academic policy makers to understand their student bodies more and create more effective policies to mitigate student unrest by understanding identified factors that influence student university riots in Sri Lanka.