RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Pico Satellite

This project is about development of Small-satellite in Academic environment. Main objective of this project is to familiarize and excite students in the area of satellite technology. The project is to be carried out in two phases. The phase one of the innovative satellite project initiated by PES Institute of Technology and other collaborative colleges like Sona college of Technology, SKR Engineering College and Veltech University has planned to build a Low cost spin stablised Imaging satellite. This project enables us to test various algorithms and concept involved in the satellite technology. The first phase of the satellite project is in progress and is expected to be completed within a year span and budget estimation is around 25 lakh. Second phase of the innovative satellite project is a Low cost 3-Axis Stabilized Imaging satellite. The second phase of the satellite project is carried out simultaneously. This interim report gives a structure of our study and design of different subsystems of phase one project with system configuration.

 

Last from Right, Dr.Kalpalatha Reddy. Dean - Research and Development - SKR Engineering College during the Satellite Meeting held at PESIT, Bangalore 

Mission Objective:

The proposed satellite is a Small-satellite with the purpose of capturing images of Earth and transmitting it to the Ground. The Payload is a CMOS camera of 3MP, 80m ground resolution and with on-board compression. The satellite is a cuboidal shaped structure with dimensions of 185x180x125mm and a mass of approx 3Kg. It is spin stabilized with a spin rate of 4+/- 0.5 rpm and spin axis oriented towards positive orbit normal within a specification of +/- 3 deg. Attitude Determination is done using the Magnetometer data and sun sensor data.  Tracking of the satellite will be done using One Way Doppler. It uses S band for communication with the Ground Station. The BMU consists of an AVR32 Controller supported by an Actel FPGA. Thermal control is provided by 5 temperature sensors and 3 heaters. The Electrical power system is designed with 20 solar panels with 29.5 percent efficiency, average output power upto 1.68W per cell, and two storage batteries of capacity 1300mAh with a Power management unit. TTC scheme is as per CCSDS BCH coding 63.56 and Turbo- Coding at the rate of ½.

 

2. Centre of Relevance and Excellence

Research laboratories

RF Id and sensors laboratory

Advanced VLSI and Embedded computing Laboratory

Image and Signal Processing Laboratory

Laboratory details

The RFID and sensors lab consists of the following hardware and software

RFID details:

Rfid Name: YHY502CG

Frequency: 13.56 MHZ

Interface TTL RS232

Baudrate: 19200bps

Contactless communication up to 106 KHZ

Operating Voltage: DC 3.0-5.5

Watchdog timer

Size: 40mmx25mmx6mm

Typical Operating Distance: 0-60mm

Auto checks for presence of tag

Purchasing Cost: 3000 rs

Status: On going

Sensor Details:

IR Sensor: (Infra Red)

Distance: 15 cm

Operating Voltage: 5v DC

IR Length: 5mm

PIR Sensor: (Human Sensor)

Distance: 5cm

Operating Voltage: 12 DC

Proximity Sensor: (Metal Sensor)

Operating Voltage: 12 v DC

RFID BASED LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Objective:

To understand the various controllers and Processors Architecture and working principles. Using interface, Embedded System reduce the man power and making continuous monitoring in real time applications

Safety railway system in rural area

Student member: Thamizhaventhan

Faculty member: Mr. Ramesh

Remote data acquisition and measuring environmental parameters using FPGA and LABVIEW

Student member: K. Sowmya

Faculty member: Mr. Suresh

Advanced VLSI and Embedded Computing Laboratory

Objectives:

To save the chip area by minimizing the interconnect fabrics and to increase circuit efficiency in terms of complexity of circuit, power consumption, and frequency response. To standardized the tasks by using the tools like Xilink, altera, tanner, Mentor graphics etc,

Lab facilities:

The Advanced VLSI and embedded computing laboratory consist the following facilities to do simulation and to implement the prototype

Software available:

Xilink 9.2, Model sim, Tanner 15.0, Keil, Lab VIEW, Mentor graphics

Hardware available:

Xilink& Altera, VTU board, FPGA board, Real time interfacing board

Faculty members involved:

Mr.B. Ramesh, Lecturer

Mr. C.Sridar, lecturer

Mr. S. Suresh Kumar

Mr. S. Prakash

Project details:

VLSI implementation of an edge – oriented image scaling processor

Student’s members:

S. Abinaya saraswathi

Hindu

Faculty member:

C. Sridar

FPGA implementation of synchronization method based on OFDM system for IEEE 802.11a

Students member: Arthi

Faculty member: Kirupadevi

Mr. Prakash

Design and FPGA implementation of DM transmission

Student member: V. Jayalakshmi

Faculty member: Mr. Sivaperumal

Implementation of fault diagnosis and fault correction in combinational circuit and its power reduction

Student member: M. Arthy

Faculty member: Mr. sridar

VLSI implementation of variable block size fast motion estimation algorithm for 1.1.256/AVC

Student member: K. Dhanalakshmi

Faculty member: Ms. Premalatha

Delay and noise analysis in CMOS VLSI circuits

Student member: D. Vinotha

Faculty member: Ms. Chitra

 

VLSI implementation of low cost high through put LDPC decoder

Student member: V. Nagaragan

Faculty member: Ms.Chitra

Image and signal Processing Laboratory

Objective:

To extend the capability of computing, analyzing, enhancing, restoring, and detecting images. MATLAB Software supports a wide range of image processing operations for various applications in Bio- medical Engineering Design, Graphical Simulation, Communication and provides efficient code generation

Lab Facilities:

Image and Signal processing Lab consisting the following lab facilities to do simulation and to prototype

Hardware Available:

ADSP 2181 Starter kit with user manuals, CD and serial port analog input and o/p cables.

ADSP 2181 Evaluation Kit.

TMS 320c 5416 DSP Kit with user CD and serial port analog input and o/p cables.

IBM PC interface , with necessary installation Software model IBR- I

DSP Based S/M Design Model DSPAt-I

Image Processing Daughter Card

TMS 320c 6713 with Necessary add on cards

Software Available:

MATLAB, MATLAB - Simulink( 2009A).

Lab view Software.

Faculty Members:

Dr. T.Kalpalatha Reddy, DEAN R&D

Mrs. T.Muthukumari , Asst. Professor

Mrs. Premalatha , Lecturer

Mr. Siva kumar, Lecturer

Projects:

Image Communication over Multipath Channel Using Compressive Sensing.

Faulty member : Mrs. Premalatha

Speech recognition system using TMS 320 C6713 DSP

Student member: A.Mathivathani

Faculty member: Mr. K.Sivakumar

Image based currency coin classification systems

Student member: . Maheswari

Faculty member: Ms. Premalatha

Real time acoustic camera using FPGA

Student member: A. Shahul Hameed

Faculty member: Ms. Bhagyalakshmi