Name : Dr.A.Kaviyarasu
Designation : Assistant Professor
Contact Details : Department of Aerospace Engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
Anna University
Chromepet , Chennai-600044
India
Phone: 044 – 22516334
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Expertise : Avionics, Flight Control and Navigation
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Academic Qualification
- Ph.D. (Avionics)-Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University,Chennai-2019.
- M.E. (Avionics) -Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai-2010 (AR&DB Fellowship Scholar).
- B.E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering)- A.V.C College Of Engineering, Mayiladuthurai-2008.
- Ph.D. (Avionics)-Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University,Chennai-2019.
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Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor in Department of Aerospace Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University during the period from 26.11.2014 to till date.
- Teaching Fellow in Department of Aerospace Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University during the period from 05.09.2011 to 25.11.2014.
- Research Associate in Centre for Aerospace Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University during the period from 01.10.2010 to 01.09.2011.
- Assistant Professor in Department of Aerospace Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University during the period from 26.11.2014 to till date.
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Languages Known
- German
- English
- Tamil
- Tamil Inscriptions
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Software Skills
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C
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C++
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Java
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Visual C#
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ADA
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MATLAB
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Python
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Machine Learning
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Deep Learning
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Fellowship Awarded
- Aeronautical Research and Development Scholarship (2008-2010)
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Awards
- Received "Extraordinary Contribution Award" from SAE INDIA Southern Section, 24th June 2019 at Chennai.
- Received “Best Alumni Award” from AVC College of Engineering, 22th November 2017 at Mayiladuthurai.
- Received “Shiksha Ratan Award for Talented Personalities” from EGF for contributing National Economics & Social Development, 24th September 2016 at Delhi.
- Received “Best Alumni Award” from AVC College of Engineering, 24th September 2016 at Mayiladuthurai.
- Received “Elmer Award” from American Radio Relay League for outstanding contributing in the field of Amateur radio, August 2016.
- Received “Certificate of Appreciation” from US military Agency (DARPA) for representing Anna University Team DHAKSHA in UAV Forge competition held in USA, May 2012.
- An active team member of Dhaksha Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Flood Rescue operation at Uttarakhand.
Mr.Kaviyarasu and his team members honored by TCD Repeater Club for the outstanding technical contribution made towards the development of first southeast WEBSDR held in yercard, March 2016.
- Best Research paper Award “Hardware –In-Loop-Simulation for Quad Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using X-plane/Simulink”, from JNT University, Hyderabad on 21-23 November 2013.
- Best Research Paper award “Design, Development and Evaluation of Longitudinal Autopilot for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using X-plane /Simulink”, from Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
- Received a letter of Appreciation from Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Former president of India for his Paper Presentation on “Storing of Lightning Charges using Super Conductors”, 2004.
- Received a letter of Appreciation from Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Former president of India for his Paper Presentation on “Design and Development of Low Cost Solar Cell”, 2006.
- Received an Invention number from Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore for “Design and Development of Low Cost Solar Cell”, 2006.
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Acheivements
- One of the research article cited by NASA AMES Laboratory.
- Member, Board of Studies for Aeronautical Engineering, Veltech University, Chennai.
- An active team member of Dhaksha Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Flood Rescue operations in Uttrakhand.
- An active team member of Dhaksha Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for crowd monitoring in Thiruvannamalai Karthigai Deepam Festival.
- An active team member of Dhaksha Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Structural monitoring of TV tower at Rameshwaram.
- An active team member of Dhaksha Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for non-invasive surveillance of granite at Madurai.
- Cleared the GATE 2007 Examination.
- Secured I class in State Level Universal Talent Searching Examination.
- Secured I grade in ISTI Science Talent Test.
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Journal Publications
In International and National Journals
- Dr.A.Kaviyarasu and Dr.A.Saravanakumar, and Mr. M.Logavenkatesh, “Hardware in Loop Simulation of a Waypoint Navigation Using Matlab/Simulink and X-plane Simulator", 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Sustainable System (ICISS), DOI: 10.1109/ISS1.2019.8908103, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5386-7799-5.
- Dr.A.Kaviyarasu and Dr.A.Saravanakumar, and K.Elumalai, “Software in the Loop simulation of Formation Flying of Multirotor UAV", 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Sustainable System (ICISS), DOI: 10.1109/ISS1.2019.8908015, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5386-7799-5.
- Dr.A.Kaviyarasu and Dr.A.Saravanakumar, “Design and Development of Low Cost Ground Receiving Station for LEO Satellite Operations”, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, volume 119, No.12, July 2018 (pp.2921-2933).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.A.Saravanakumar and K.Pradeesha, “Air Traffic Control Secondary Radar”, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, volume 119, No.12, July 2018 (pp.2935-2944).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu and Dr.A.Saravanakumar, “Study of Fixed wing Aircraft Dynamics Using System Identification Approach”, International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, volume 07, No.02, July 2015 (pp.461-467).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu and Dr.K.Senthilkumar, “Design of Automatic PID Gain Scheduling for Fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Volume 07,No.02, July 2015 (pp.451-460).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu and K.Senthilkumar, “Simulation of a Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using X – Plane and Matlab/Simulink”, Defence Science Journal, volume 64, No.4, July 2014 (pp.327-331).
- Mr.R Athilingam, AM Rasheed, KS Kumar, A Kaviyarasu and Thillainayagi, “Target Tracking with Background Modeled Mean Shift Technique for UAV Surveillance videos”, International Journal of Engineering & Technology (0975-4024) 6.2 (2014).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.P.Sivaprakash, “Design, Development and Evaluation of Longitudinal Autopilot for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using X – Plane / Simulink”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, volume 188, chapter 30 (ISSN 1876-1100) , Dec. 2012 (pp 343 - 355).
List of Conference Publications
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu , Mr.R.Athilingam and Dr. K.Senthilkumar, “Hardware –In-Loop-Simulation for Quad Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using X-plane/Simulink”, Proceedings in Elsevier of the Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Design, Development and operation of Micro Air Vehicles-2013(ICRAMAV-2013) by JNT University, Hyderabad on 21-23 November 2013 (pp 213-218).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu , Mr.R.Athilingam and Dr. K.Senthilkumar, “Object Detection and Tracking with Overlay model for UAV Surveillance Videos”, Proceedings in Elsevier of the Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Design, Development and operation of Micro Air Vehicles-2013(ICRAMAV-2013) by JNT University, Hyderabad on 21-23 November 2013 (pp 30 – 35).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.G.Umanath, “Design of Automatic PID Gain Scheduling for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, Proceedings of the International Conference On Recent Advances in Design, Development & operation Of Micro Air Vehicles (ICRAMAV-2012) by JNT University, Hyderabad on 10th to 12th Dec. 2012 (pp 139- 149).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.P.Gopinath, “Simulation of Quadrotor Dynamics ”, Proceedings of the International Conference On Recent Advances in Design, Development & operation Of Micro Air Vehicles (ICRAMAV-2012) by JNT University, Hyderabad on 10th to 12th Dec. 2012 (pp 150- 160).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, and Dr.K.Senthilkumar, “Design and Development Of Flapping Wing Micro Aerial Vehicle”, Proceedings of the International Conference On Recent Advances in Design, Development & operation Of Micro Air Vehicles (ICRAMAV-2012) by JNT University, Hyderabad on 10th to 12th Dec. 2012 (pp 286- 294).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.P.Sivaprakash, “Design, Development and Evaluation of Longitudinal and Lateral Autopilot for an Micro Aerial Vehicle using X-plane /Simulink”, ”, Proceedings of the International Conference On Recent Advances in Design, Development & operation Of Micro Air Vehicles (ICRAMAV-2012) by JNT University, Hyderabad on 10th to 12th Dec. 2012 (pp 295- 306).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.P.Sivaprakash, “Design, Development and Evaluation of Longitudinal Autopilot for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using X-plane /Simulink”, Proceedings of the 36th National System Conference (NSC-2012) by Annamalai University, Chidambaram on 06th to 08th Dec. 2012 (pp 163- 170).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.A.Mohammed Rasheed, “Design and Development of Low Cost Autopilot”, Proceedings of the 23rd National Convention of Aerospace Engineering by NDRF, Bangalore on 26th & 27th Nov. 2009 (pp 82- 87).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu and Mr.A.Mohammed Rasheed, “Prototype Design of Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, Volume: 3, Number: 1, July 2010, Centre for Technology Development and Transfer, Anna University, Chennai – 25(pp 8 – 9).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Mr.V.S.Chandrashekar, Mr.B.P.Shashidara, Mr.S.Sadasivan, Dr.K.Senthilkumar, Mr.R.Uthirabalan and Mr.A.Mohammed Rasheed, “Onboard and far field Aero Acoustic Environment of a Hex Rotor MAV – Measurement and Analysis”, Volume II: Number: 89, 16th – 17th November 2011, ADA, Bangalore (pp 667-671).
- Mr.A.Kaviyarasu, Dr.K.Senthilkumar and Mr.A.Mohammed Rasheed, “Design and Development of Quad – Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”, Volume II: Number: 91, 16th – 17th November 2011, ADA, Bangalore (pp 686-692).
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Subjet Handled
- Avionics
- Satellite Technology
- Satellite Power System
- Aircraft Guidance and Control
- Electro Optic Systems
- System Engineering
- Fault tolerant and computing
- Programing in ADA
- Embedded Systems
- Research Methodology and Intellectual Property Rights
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Memberships
- Lifetime membership in Indian Boomerang Association
- Membership in SAEINDIA
- Life time membership in "South Indian Amateur Radio Society"
- Life time membership in "Indian Homebrewews"
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Funded Projects
- Received and successfully completed project titled as "Prototype Design Of Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" from CTDT Anna University"- 2009.
- Received a project titled as"Design and Development Of Microwave Excited Plasma Thruster" from CTDT, Anna University" - 2015 (I-Phase).
- Received a project titled as"Design and Development Of Microwave Excited Plasma Thruster" from CTDT, Anna University" - 2017 (II-Phase).
- Received and successfully completed project titled as "Prototype Design Of Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" from CTDT Anna University"- 2009.
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FDP/Worshop Attended
- Attended Online Course on "Machine Learning 101" organised by GUVI, IIT Madras incubent Company dated on 09 th September 2020.
- Attended Three days seminar on "Autonomous Air Vehicles Technologies and Applications" Jointly organised by ADE-DRDO, Banglore and Design Division-AeSI, 08th-10 th January, 2020.
- Attended Two week Faculty Development Training program on "Induction Training Programme" Conducted by NITTTR Chennai, 22nd July-02nd August,2019.
- Attended Four days Faculty Training Program on "Control Systems Engineering Theory and Lab with Matlab/Simulink" conducted by Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 18th to 21st December, 2018.
- Attended National Conference on "Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management (NCRASEM-2018)" conducted by Tagore Engineering College, 28th March, 2018.
- Attended one day national workshop on " How to do a good Ph.D.?" conducted by Centre for Aerospace Research, Madras Institute of Technology, 3rd March, 2018.
- Attended Two days national workshop on "Recent and Future Trends in Automobile Engineering" conducted by Department of Automobile Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology, 9th March-10th March, 2018.
- Attended Two week Faculty Development Training program on "Entrepreneurship Development" Conducted by Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Anna University, 13th November-23th February, 2018.
- Attended one week Faculty Development Training program on "Process Control" conducted by Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology, 30th November-06th December, 2017.
- Attended Two day National Seminar on "Identifying, Tracking and Neutralizing Unauthorized Drones"Conducted by NDRF, Bangalore, 23rd and 24th November, 2017.
- Attended one day National Seminar on "Future Requirements in Space and Defence Technologies for India"(FRISADTFI-17) Conducted by Department of Aerospace Engineering and Centre for aerospace Research (CASR), Madras Institute of Technology, 14th October, 2017.
- Attended One day National Seminar on "National Instrument Technical Symposium"Conducted by National Instruments, Chennai, 9th November, 2017.
- Attended one day Technical seminar on "Embedded Software Safety and Security" Conducted by LDRA Technology PVt.Ltd, Chennai. 25th October,2017.
- Attended Five days Training programme on "High Frequency Test and Measurements" conducted by Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, 28th August to 1st November, 2017.
- Attended one day workshop on "High Frequency Design using ADS" conducted by Department of Electronics Engineering, MIT Campus, 11th August, 2017.
- Attended three days workshop on "Student Evaluation and question paper setting" conducted by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research, 13-15th October,2016.
- Attended two days workshop on "PID Controllers" conducted by Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology, 16-17th September, 2016.
- Attended one week Faculty Development Training program on "ME6301 Engineering Thermodynamics" Conducted by Department of Automobile Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, 6th -12th, June, 2016.
- Attended AICTE sponsored one week QIP short term course on "Adaptive and Decentralized Control" conducted by IIT Bombay- 2015.
- Attended two days hands on training workshop on "BITX Transreceiver" conducted by Lamakaan ,Hyderabad.
- Attended One week Workshop on "Design and Development Of Software Define Radio" conducted by South Indian Amateur Radio Society -2015.
- Attended UGC sponsered Two days workshop on "Recent Trends in Mechatronics" conducted by CEG- Anna University- 2015.
- Attended Three Days Training Program on "Small Satellite Design and Development" Conducted by Indian Space Station- Bangalore- 2015.
- Attended one Day workshop on "RF Measurement for Wireless Communications" Conducted by Department of Electronics-MIT campus-2015.
- Attended one week Faculty Development Training program on "ME2354 Automobile Engineering" Conducted by Department of Automobile Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, 01th -07th, December, 2014.
- Attended Two Day workshop on "RF Engineering for Wireless Networks" Conducted by Department of Electronics-MIT campus-2010.
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Guest/Invited Talk
- Acted as a resource persons for AICTE Sponsored six days online short term training programme on " Internet of Things Big Bata Cloud -IBDC 2020 (Phase II) held on 17th- 22th August, 2020 organised by Department of Information Science Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Banglore.
- Acted as a resource persons for AICTE Sponsored six days online short term training programme on " Internet of Things Big Bata Cloud -IBDC 2020 held on 20th- 25th July, 2020 organised by Department of Information Science Engineering, CMR Institute of Technology, Banglore.
- Acted as a resource persons for 3rd Lamakaan Annual Radio Convection held on 21st and 22nd December,2019 organised by the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club in association with Muffakham Jah College of Engineeing and Technology, Hyderabad.
- Acted as a resource persons for AICTE and CFD Anna University Sponsored Faculty Development Program "CS8498 Software Engineering", Department of Information Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, 16th to 20th December 2019.
- Invited as a Guest for Live Telecast of Chandrayaan 2 Landing event at Thanthi TV, Chennai, 7th September 2019.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture in 6th National Workshop on Advances in Positioning, Navigation ad Communication (APNC 2019) on the topic of "Introduction to Drones and its Applications" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, 14th August 2019.
- Deliverd an invited talk on "Drones and its application" at Mahabalipuram Eye Ball Meet conducted by Vandunet Amateur radio club, Chennai, 9th Febrauary 2019.
- Acted as a resource persons/Invited Talk on the Topic "Drones for flood Relief" for 2nd Lamakaan Annual Radio Convection Organised by the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club in association with Muffakham Jah College of Engineeing and Technology, Hyderabad, 20th January 2019.
- Acted as a resource persons for CFD Anna University Sponsored Faculty Development Program " Software Architecture", Department of Information Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, 26th December 2018.
- Invited as a National level jury for 3rd Aero Design Challenge conducted by SAE INDIA and Anna university at Chennai, 11 -13 th July 2018.
- Acted as a resource persons for 1st Lamakaan Annual Radio Convection held on 26 and 27th January, 2018 organised by the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club in association with Muffakham Jah College of Engineeing and Technology, Hyderabad.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Design and development of antennas and RF measurements" at AVC College of Engineering, Mayiladuthurai, 21st November 2017.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Importance of Electronics in modern Technology" at AVC College of Engineering, Mayiladuthurai, 22nd November 2017.
- Invited as a National level jury for 2nd Aero Design Challenge conducted by SAE INDIA and Anna university at Chennai, 8th -10 th June 2017.
- Delivered a Invited talk on "Aerospace in Future & Application" at Sivagiri Radio, Erode, 16th November, 2016.
- Acted as a Resource person for "One day workshop on Arduino" at Sasurie college of Engineering, Tirupur, 22nd October 2016.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Unmanned Ground Vehicle" at Top Engineers, Chennai.
- Delivered a Invited talk on " HAM Radio and its Application" at Sairam Institute of Technology, Chennai, 24th August, 2016.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Application of HAM Radio to Society" at Sathyabama University, Chennai.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Application of Basic Science in Avionics Engineering" at AVC college of Engineering, Manampandal, Mayiladuthurai.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Application of Basic Science in Aerospace Application" at Sasurie college of Engineering, Tirupur.
- Acted as a Resource person for "Hands on Experience Workshop on Arduino for Beginners " at Nandha Engineering College Erode.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Introduction to HAM Radio" at Sri Sairam Engineering college, Chennai.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Design and Development of Quadifilar Helical antenna for satellite application at SIARS, Chennai.
- Delivered a Guest Lecture on "Application of Simulator for Aerospace Engineering" at Indian Home-brewers meet at Yelagiri.
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Experiments/LAB Setup Developed
Developed Software-In-Loop-Test (SILS) facility for both Fixed wing and Rotary wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Developed Hardware-In-Loop-Test (HILS) facility for both Fixed wing and Rotary wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Developed Flapping wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Ornithopter)
Developed a Quadrifilar antenna for 2 meter Band
Developed a Turnstile Antenna for 40cm Band
- Developed J-Pole antenna for 136-146Mhz Communication.
- Developed 6 Element Yadi-Uda Antenna for Emergency Repeater Access.
- Developed 40meter Dipole antenna for HF communication.
- Developed 1.7Ghz QHF Antenna for Satellite Application.
- Developed S Band Antenna for Telemetry Reception.
- Developed Automatic Band Pass Filter for HF Communication.
- Developed ADS-B Radar System for Civil Aircraft monitoring.
- Developed Bias Tee for active antennas.
- Developed Differential GPS Receiver hardware setup for accurate navigation.
- Developed 400Watts 20 and 40meter RF Amplifier.
- Developed 50Watts 20 meter RF Amplifier For HF Communication.
- Developed a HF Radio Station for Emergency/Disaster communication.
- Developed a VHF Radio Station for Emergency/Disaster Communication.
- Developed SSTV Transmitting Station for Testing purpose.
- Developed a ECHO Link Station for VHF Relay Communication.
Active Team Member in WebSDR Development
- Developed SSB/CW Ground Control station for Eshail-2 Geo-Stationary Satellite.
- Developed Automatic Antenna tracking control unit for Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) Communication.
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On going Research Work
- Formation flying of Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Simulation mode.
- Development of longitudinal autopilot for aircraft landing (Glide slope & Flare path Control).
- Indoor position navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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Contribution to Society
- Promoting "Science and Technology" Hands on free workshop to all rural School Students.
- Promoting importance of science to all visitors @ Brila Planetarium, Chennai.
- Promoting Literacy to the non starters and school dropouts in the age group of 15-45 years.
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Contribution to Department/University
- MIT Variety Team Staff-In charge.
- Association of Aeronautical Engineers (AAE) Staff In-charge during the academic year 2017-2018.
- Faculty Adviser for the PG Student during the academic year 2017-2018.
- Faculty Adviser for the PG Student during the academic year 2015-2017.
- Faculty Adviser for the UG Student during the academic year 2016-2020.
- Flight Training faculty incharge during the academic year 2016-17, 2015-16 & 2013-14.
- MIT Aerospace webpage Coordinator.
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Extra Activities
- Aeromodelling.
- Boomerang Thrower (Valari)
- HAM Radio Operator (VU2UAV)
- Astronomy Observations
- Active Home Brewing.
- Photography
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Power point Presentation
- Aircraft Altitude hold Control System - Click here
- Longitudinal Fighter aircraft Control System - Click here
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Journal Ratings
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Journal Reviewer
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Journal of Aerospace Engineering
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Current Science
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IEEE Access
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Executive Guest Editor for Chinese Computer Science
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