IIT Hyderabad bags awards at III-Fair

​Hyderabad: Indian Institute of Technology- Hyderabad, (IIT-H), with its expertise in research and innovation, has bagged three awards based on the four projects exhibited by the students of IIT-H at the International Indian Innovation Fair (III-Fair) held in Bangalore.

IIT-H team that consisted of four members Neagin N S, Pavan Mantripragada, Balasubramanyam Appina and Akshay Ramesh Jadhav have displayed four projects at the III-Fair.

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IIT-H has bagged the following awards

• Gold medal - Recognition of Creativity & Innovation – III-Fair 2016 - IIT Hyderabad.
• Gold medal - Contribution to Innovation from Republica Portuguesa – IIT-Hyderabad.
• Gold medal - Best National Invention from International Federation of Inventors' Association (IFIA) – IIT-Hyderabad.

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Sharing details about his project- Snake-like Articulated Robot Platform (SARP)-, Pavan Mantripragada, B Tech final year, IIT-H says, “There are many applications of this robot but the main target of this project is to rescue people where the humans cannot reach. The developments on this project are still going on. Mainly sensors have to be added that will help the SARP in detecting humans.”

“There is a vast scope for this project and it took one year to develop it. Faculty and seniors supported me well and robotics club at our campus was a great help in achieving the project,” he adds.

“We have developed various gait cycles like Linear progression, Side-winding, Lateral-rolling and Helix-rolling mimicking snake movements in nature,” notes Pavan Mantripragada.

Amar Jadhav, a faculty at the IIT-H incubation centre, who has authored a research article on Internet of Things (IoT), says, “We try to bring out the best ideologies that can also inspire many students at the same time.

If there are students who have plans of coming out with their own start-ups, the institution and the faculty are always ready to boost their skills and stand by them for the ideas which are out of the box.”

Interference-Free Communication using Cloud RAN: A 5G prototype programme by Neagin N S, B Tech final year student talks about a 5G prototype, which promises an interference-free communication between base station and user-equipment using Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) architecture.

“Interference cancellation has been achieved using advanced downlink (DL) coordinated multi-point transmission (ACOMP) technology that employs Time division Duplex (TDD) channel calibration and nonlinear precoding techniques.

This architecture provides an increase in network capacity by at least three fold, which in turn increases the revenue of the network operator. This is the first ever demonstration of a 5G communication system using non-linear pre-coding techniques,” she adds.

An Eye for Quality: Multimedia Quality Assessment, presented by Balasubramanyam Appina, B Tech final year student from IIT-H, talks about an automatic visual quality estimator to enhance the visual quality of multimedia content.

“As you may know, Digital multimedia has assumed a vital place in our lives primarily due to the ease of acquiring, storing and sharing audio, image and video content.

However, acquiring content with poor visual quality and not curating this content seems to be a simple problem but given the rate at which content is being generated and shared, the amount of storage and bandwidth that poor quality content can consume cannot be ignored.

This research focuses on an automatic visual quality estimator as a useful tool for addressing the problem of automatically estimating the visual quality of 2D/3D image and video content”, Balasubramanyam Appina adds.

IIT-H team received the awards in the presence of Prof AS Rao, Chairman of the III-Fair.

By: Vaishnavi Girish & Bhagyashree Kottoori