Department of Avionics
Control systems
The group has 5 faculty members working in various specialized areas of modern analog and digital control system. Major areas of research currently control group is dealing with are:
- Control based Cryptography for secure communication
- Model reduction for uncertain systems: Continuous and Discrete Systems
- Stochastic Control and Optimization.
- Power system control
RF and Microwave Engineering
The group has 3 faculty members working in various specialized areas of microwave circuits and systems, planar circuits, antennas and metamateials. Major areas of research currently this group is dealing with are:
- Microwave Circuits
- Metamaterial Inspired Circuit and Antennas
- Ultra Wide Band Antennas
- Dielectric Resonator and Antennas
- RF and Microwave communication systems
Electronics and navigation systems
The group has 3 faculty members working in various specialized areas of modern navigation systems. Major areas of research currently control group is dealing with are:
- Robotics / Rover systems
- Power electronics and drives
- Navigation and sensor systems
- Sensor fusions / object identification
Signal processing and Communication engineering
The group has 3 faculty members working in various specialized areas of signal and image processing, image compression etc. Major areas of research currently this group is dealing with are:
- Reinforcement Learning
- Communication Networks
- Neuro Fuzzy Systems
- Computer Vision and Object Recognition
- Speech coding
- Image compression
- Communication systems
- Digital signal processing
- Three dimensional object Recognition
- Robotic Vision
- Modeling virtual reality environments for space applications
Semiconductors and IC Design
The group has 2 faculty members working in various specialized areas of micro-nano fabrication, modeling etc. Major areas of research currently control group is dealing with are:
- VLSI design
- IC Design, sub-threshold design methodology and system implementation
- Very low voltage circuits for wireless sensor Networks & Biomedical signal processing
- Signal processing hardware for color image processing, image analysis, object recognition
- Analog IC design
- Fault tolerant computing
Power Electronics
The research group has five faculty members specialising in the areas of Power Converters, Multilevel Inverters, Electric Drives, Multi-phase drives, Solid State Transformers, Electric Vehicles and Power System Operation and Control. Current research fields include
- Multi-phase Machines
- Integrated Battery Chargers
- Solid State Transformers
- Grid-connected converters
- Multi-Motor drives
- High-performance DC-DC converters
- Electrical Power Systems for small satellites
- Predictive control for power applications
- Interface Electronics
- Deregulated Power Systems