SPARSH (Solar Powered Automated Route Sensing Hexapod)
SPARSH is a dream project with applications in any area where surveillance is the sole need or a prerequisite. The initiation of the project will be with a relatively less complex prototype called as PURV SPARSH (Prototype of Unmanned Rover Vehicle) (PURV in Sanskrit means “Before”), with state of art maneuverability. Project SPARSH (PURV SPARSH for the time being) is expected to be a whole laboratory in itself, with a challenge to make it at par with excellent mechanical mechanisms present across the world in this category of robots, as well as an incorporation of Machine Vision and the cutting edge technologies like vSLAM (Visual sensor based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) which have surfaced quiet recently. There are a lot of novel ideas which need to be tested in the part of Machine Vision too.
To build an unmanned ariel vehicle (UAV), a self stabilized quad rotor which uses feedback from internal gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer and GPS to provide perfect stable flightpath in wind.
GSM Based Automation and Control
Working on a project of GSM SIM300 Module based Digital Notice Board and home automation in which the GSM Module as well as Graphical LCD Module and home appliances are interfaced using ARM7TDMI based lpc2148 microcontroller. In this project we will be able to switch on and off home appliances as well as we can display notices in the Digital notice board through SMS.
Solar Fountain
Garden fountains are popular backyard fixtures that add a decorative touch, comfort and soothing sounds to a backyard landscape. Instead of having a static pond , solar power garden fountains can add moving water to the display that is soothing to the eyes. The project is to prepare a solar powered fountain. The objective of the project is basically to decrease the cost of electricity by replacing the electric component of a traditional water fountain by a solar panel. The Solar powered fountain has so many advantages over the electric (or non-solar) fountain § no electricity is required for its operation § it is an eco-friendly system § it needs low maintenance after being installed § Simulation of data to get optimum result. § Use of deflector in place of nozzle
Quadcopter & Image Processing
National Institute of Technology Silchar establishes RESEARCH PROMOTION CELL (RPC) to promote research and provide research support to B.Tech /M.Tech /M.Sc students of NIT Silchar. The cell take up all possible works right from publication of notification, evaluation to sanctioning of Institutional research proposals from the eligible students of NIT Silchar.
Automatic Pet Feeder
The present invention relates to an automatic pet food server, and in particular to a device which automatically provides fresh, moist pet food and water for a pet on a periodic basis. The project aims at making an automatic pet feeder (electronic),where refrigeration system would have been installed. The refrigeration system is mainly used for preserving wet food ,as in present there are already many varieties of dry food preservers are available.
Gesture Controlled Robot
The objective of the project is to control a robot with the help of pre-defined hand-gestures. It’s a combination of Image processing along with an application of embedded system (PIC-18 & XBEE module) to transmit the signals and to control the robot in accordance with the signal. The main robot will be connected wirelessly to the controller system. The controlled system will work on image processing by the analyzed images of gesture. It will send forward-backward, Left-right, stop etc. motion signals to the robot. Moreover, with the help of sensors, the robot will take instant actions to avoid obstacles.
Study on improvement of bearing capacity of soft clay using geocell reinforcement.
soft clay is present in different parts of the country. The main difficulty with soft clay is that it is highly compressible and is susceptible to high consolidation settlement. Hence soft clay cannot be used directly for foundation unless some ground improvement techniques or piling are used. But both these methods are time-consuming and uneconomical. On the other hand, if some layers of geo-cells are used then the bearing capacity of the ground increases. So in this present study, some prototype tests are proposed to be carried out to establish the bearing capacity theory of geocell reinforced soft clay.
Development of new triaxial cell for determination of shear parameters of soil.
Main objective of this project is to fabricate a new tri-axial cell, such that the cross section of the loading ram and that of the soil sample are same so that the load will act uniformly throughout the cross section and also to observe ,analyze the shear parameters of the soil by using a cuboidal soil sample by applying axial stress and lateral stress independently. The horizontal stress and the vertical stress are not equal in actual field conditions and are taken equal in laboratory during the consolidation process.