| CURRENT RESEARCH |
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| I2IT Nanosatellite Project (INP) |
| SOST is in the initial stage of planning and cost estimation of launching Nanosatellite.
The INP project will start in mid November 2009 and would be launching our first
satellite into space by 2012 December. The main aim of the project is study the
outer Space cosmic radiation intensity and this would help determine the amount
energy that can be utilized for future spacecrafts as a energy resource. The INP
project will be part our long term goal of creating Modular robot cum rover on to
lunar surface. SOST is planning to be ready with the prototype of rover by 2014.Based
on our capability in embedded system design and mechanical system design built through
years we hope to speed the project in collaboration many other Universities and
industries. To make these come to true we are in the process of building a small
satellite Engineering Lab which will be backbone for our space goal. |
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Phase 1:alists various sensors and actuators to be rationalized.
This Phase would be complete by 2010 June.
Phase 2: During this phase the INP would be assembled and tested .We propose to complete
this Phase by 2011.
Phase 3:To associate with a launcher to put it on orbit.
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| Autonomous Multi-terrain Vehicle |
| A simple but effective autonomous multi-terrain vehicles prototype being built by
SOST. The initial mechanical and gear system have been developed. Simultaneously
sensors network is being tried on a test board. The proposed vehicle would be ready
by end of 2010. |
| RESEARCH PROJECTS |
Embedded Systems Design for Robotics Applications |
| List of interfaces that has been designed and developed |
- POV (Persistence of Vision) toy
Same as the POV toy available at many places on the net. Simple enough to start
and at the same time gives enough room to play with different ideas.
- Binary clock
Simple microcontroller based time display unit. Displays the time in Binary coded
decimal. Not very easy for every one to read. Introduction to code flow and data
handling for microcontrollers.
- 5x5 LED Display
An array of LED's of size 5 by 5 lets display characters and patterns. Stepping
stone for 3D display and RGB display using LED's
- 7 Segment Display
Very cheap and easy to make but not very easy to run without flicker. Used to upgrade
the clock display so that everyone can read the clock.
- LCD Interface
Interface for standard 44780 based alphanumeric LCD. Great for displaying any information
in a standalone unit and can display a lot of data at a given time.
- ADC Interface
Interfacing to the 10bit Analog to digital converter in the AVR to access real world
data from different sensors like LDR's, Thermistors, LM35, photo diodes.
- USART Interface
Utilizing the inbuilt USART in the controller to transmit all the data from the
controller to data logger or a PC. Also a PC based software for reading and logging
the data received.
- TV Remote interface TELECONTROL
Using a TV remote sending RC5 code and a TSOP1738 sensor the microcontroller can
be controlled and in turn instructed to control any thing else at a long distance.
- DC Motor control using PWM
The speed of a standard DC motor can be controlled by applying PWM generated by
a microcontroller through a H bridge IC.
- Stepper Motor
Control of unipolar stepper motor using a buffer IC. The step angle of the used
motor is 3.6 degrees using half stepping gives 1.8 degrees.
- Music generation – Building a BASIC SYNTHESIZER
Toggling a pin of the microcontroller to generate audio frequency and feeding it
to a 8 Ohm speaker through a simple transistor amplifier to generate music.
- Calculator
Using the keypad and the LCD display to design a 16 bit calculator. Supports four
arithmetic operations and no floating point number support.
- PC Parallel Port interface
Easy to interface standard parallel port with 8bit output and 5bit input port. Good
to test ideas by writing code on the PC and interfacing the devices to the port.
- TV Remote Controlled Bot
A simple differential drive toy and the TV remote control and we have a remote controlled
bot to go all over the place.
- Autonomous Bot
Some properly arranged IR transmitters and receivers and some algorithm and the
bot is good enough to go around on its own.
- Line follower Bot
Some properly arranged IR transmitters and receivers and some algorithm and the
bot is ready to follow a line.
- SD card interface
Interface of a 1 GB FAT16 formatted card to store data in the file system to make
a data logger with huge capacity.
- GPS interface
A GPS interface to access latitude longitude and time from the standard NMEA sentences.
- Real Time Audio Processing
AVR based real time DSP on audio, generates information about the audio signal.
- Development board for CPLD development
A very low cost CPLD board has been designed and built for testing and training
purpose .
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| Embedded System Design for Intelligent Vehicles |
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Redliner :
Design and Fabrication of mini remote controlled using 3.5 CC internal combustion
engine multi terrain vehicle along with required embedded systems. |
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HD 250 :
Go-kart powered by twin cylinder 250 CC motorbike( engine ) for racing purpose as
a Miniproject. |
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HD120 Electric Bike :
Electric racing bike with 120 Km/hr speed designed and fabricated to experiment
with new technologies with necessary accessories. |
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To experiment with hybrid and electric vehicles students have developed in house
facilities working cut sections and models. |
| RESEARCH AREAS |
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| Applied Nanoscience |
Applied Intelligent Systems |
- Nanoelectronics
- Nanobiotechnology
- Nanofabrication
- Cognitive Engineering
- Convergence of Technology
- Unification of Science
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- Intelligent Vehicles
- Robotics
- Micro Satellites
- RF System
- Alternative Vehicles
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