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The laboratories/research facilities are established under Department of Avionics Engineering. Various experimental setups are developed in these labs to crater to the need of undergraduate and post graduate programs. In addition, several research facilities are also developed to support the research activities under the Department
This lab deals various experiment related to basic and advanced electronic devices and integrated circuits. Students gets a real flavor of dealing with various circuits and systems they learn in theory courses including BJT,FET,MOSFET etc. and various linear integrated circuits. This should enable the students to acquire practical knowledge of the characteristics of different devices by constructing the various circuits.
E-CAD lab is one of the most fundamental in the department that deals with computed aided design of various analog circuit and digital circuits. Students are familiarized with various state of the art software packages required for basic and advanced circuit design.
This lab focuses exclusively on designing various basic and advanced digital systems and provides students and excellent opportunity to come up with hardware implementation of the digital circuits they learn in theoretical courses.
Department of Avionics took initiative in establishing laboratories and research facilities in the area of VLSI, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Micro/Nano and optoelectronics. These laboratories arebeing established to support the Post Graduate programme VLSI and Microsystems introduced in the year 2013 and research activities in the areas of VLSI, Micro/Nanoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS devicesand technologies. These laboratories would support the R&D activities in these areasat ISRO
VLSI Design Lab
Design and simulation tools for Digital/Analog and Mixed VLSI Design (Cadence, Mentor Graphics etc.)
MEMS & Microelectronics Design Lab
Modelling, design and simulation tools for MEMS devices, Micro/Nanoelectronics devices and systems. (High end workstations, Coventorware and MEMS+ from Coventor,, Silvaco ATLAS and ATHENA TCAD,Sentaures TCAD 3D Process and Device TCAD from Synopsis,COMSOL Multiphysics etc.)
MEMS &NanoFAB (Micro/Nanofabrication Laboratory)
MEMS/Micro/nanofabrication facility is planned to be established in a clean room spanning 140 square meters. The facility is planned for 4” silicon wafer substrates with upgradability for 6” wafers. Phase-1 of MEMS &NanoFAB has been established with the following major facilities.
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Micro/Nanosystems Characterization lab
Micro/Nanosystems characterization lab has characterization equipment for electrical and mechanical characterization of micro/nano-scale devices
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RF and Microwave Lab of the department is equipped with various facilities to perform both classical and modern experiments. Apart from Waveguide test-bench based experiments, facilities like transmission line trainer kit, antenna radiation pattern measurement set up, characterization of microwave network and antennas using spectrum and network analyzer are existing in this lab. The lab is also equipped with various advanced electromagnetic CAD softwares like HFSS, CST, Feko, ADS etc. extremely useful for state of the art research in this domain.
Major facilities of this lab includes:
Department of Avionics has developed this lab for the UG, PG and research graduate students. This lab consist of ten entry level workstation, thermal imaging camera, stereo vision camera, and 4 GigE vision high speed camera for various image processing related activities. This lab uses both open source platform as well as licensed application software such as MATLAB, visual studio profession 2012 for various lab related activities. Students used this facility to do their labs for courses like Digital image processing, Video processing, Pattern recognition, and computer vision. UG and PG students use this facility to do their final year projects in various areas like, image retrieval, speech processing, computer vision, image and video processing , soft computing and machine learning etc.
Major facilities in this lab includes:
Control systems Lab focuses on designing and developing control strategies for linear/nonlinear systems that include magnetic levitation system, process control plant, Rotary double inverted pendulum, coupled tank system, Twin Rotor MIMO system among others. Both UG and PG Students learn SISO and MIMO control design techniques as part of their curriculum aided by the facilities available in this lab.
Major equipments in this lab includes:
Power Electronics laboratory of Avionics department is well-equipped for performing basic as well as advanced experiments in Power Electronics and Drives. Equipment and devices required for conducting experiments pertaining to open-loop and closed loop control of AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC and AC-AC converters are available in this laboratory. In addition, facilities are available for performing advanced experiments on DC Drives, 3-phase AC drives, multiphase AC drives (Split phase and 5 phase), photo-voltaic systems etc. The control schemes are implemented in custom built digital platforms such as FPGAs, Digital Signal Controllers and Micro controllers
Some of the equipments are:
Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory is well-equipped for research and education in the field of sensors and associated measurement schemes, analog signal processing and virtual, bio and digital instrumentation. It houses extensive experimental and simulation facilities (important facilities are given below) for instrumentation-related laboratory courses of undergraduate (avionics and engineering physics) students of IIST. Research projects related to design and implementation and analysis of magnetic sensors and interface electronics, direct-digitizers, advanced measurement circuits, biomedical electronics and embedded systems are also carried out in this laboratory
Some of the instruments present in the lab are listed below:
The students of the department have conceived a 3-axis stabilized Nano-satellite of mass less than 2 kilograms. The conceptual design of the satellite has been completed and the payload and components have been identified, based on the functional requirements and availability. The Nano-satellite is proposed to be launched in a polar sun synchronous orbit of about 670 km altitude as a piggyback payload in the PSLV rocket.
Digital Signal Processing Lab is developed for UG, PG and Research Students to carry out experiments in the area of 1D/2D signal processing. The Lab is equipped with the following facilities to perform both simulation and real time signal processing task
Computing Facility
Desktop PC with Windows Operating System
Software Facility
The software facilities include the following:
Hardware Facility
The facility is equipped with following equipment
Computer Networks Lab (ComNets Lab) is a core instructional lab in Avionics Department. It is part of B.Tech Avionics curriculum. This lab focuses on training students on a range of computer networking concepts starting from the basics of networking, protocol design, protocol development, and delay analysis to more advanced concepts such as software defined networking and network security. Further the lab focuses on a curriculum based on the Internet as it aimed at developing next generation of networking engineers and scientists
The Communication Systems Lab in the Department of Avionics has been developed with a vision to cater to the teaching of Analog and Digital Communication concepts to B.Tech and M.Tech students of the department. The lab is well equipped to support courses such as Analog communication, Digital communication, Communication systems I and II. The communication systems lab also provides necessary support to the research activities of the communication and networks group in the department. The following are the major equipments available in the lab.
Systems and Networks Lab (SysNet Lab) is a research laboratory in the department of Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, focuses on the research activities in the broader area of networked systems as well as next generation computer netwworks. Major research areas include wireless multihop communication networks (e.g., Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), Software Defined Networks (SDNs), Internet of Things (IoT), complex networks, and graph signal processing.
As part of the research, a WMN testbed “IIST MeshNet,” which spans D2 and D4, is set up to analyze the behavioral characteristics of wireless multihop networks. Presently, SDN capability is also integrated with the mesh routers in order to analyze the finer level of network control
The lab is equipped with the following hardware and software tools to carry out experiments to analyze performance of various network protocols and parameters
This lab was setup to provide hands-on training in the field of navigation Systems and sensors. Various experiments like calibration of inertial sensors such as servo accelerometers, MEMS accelerometers, Dynamically Tuned Gyroscopes, MEMS gyroscopes are performed in the lab. Navigation system level tests such as rate test, multi-position test, all attitude test, Hardware in loop tests are planned to be carried out in this lab. In addition, provision for carrying out the simulation of inertial navigation system are provided to impart training on different navigation algorithms in different navigation frames. Major equipments such as servo accelerometer check-out system, DTG check-out system, 2-axis Angular Motion Simulation set up, 3-axis dividing head setup are available in the lab. Further, Navigation System packages which are used in the PSLV, GSLV mark-3 are available for demonstration in the lab. Significantly, the lab has one of the first few deployed IRNSS receivers across the country, and two portable IRNSS receivers and ISRO-SAC in-house developed IRNSS simulator. This gives focuss on satellite navigation receiver design for GPS, IRNSS(NAVIC) etc.
