ECE Newsletter March 2019

IIIT Delhi UAV Team - Aurora led by undergraduate students Akhil Jarodia, Aseem Saini and Mukul Chhabra secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held at the US Navy Air Station in Maryland, USA from 12th-15th June 2019. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition. In addition to this, the team has been awarded prize money of $2250. The team used a hexacopter UAV platform which cleared all milestones and deliverables including fully autonomous mission, stationary & moving obstacles avoidance, autonomous air-delivery of a water bottle and object detection & classification.

SPARC project [Ministry of HRD, Govt of India] titled "Post-Silicon Debug Platform for Secured Systems" with Dr. Sujay Deb (Indian-PI), Prof. Prabhat Mishra (International PI), Dr. Saket Anand (Indian Co-PI), and Dr. Kanad Basu (International Co-PI) got approved with a budget sanction for 48 lakhs. This project is a collaboration work between IIIT Delhi, University of Florida and New York University.

• Sambhav Malhotra(B.Tech Student, IIITD), Vivek Bohara(Faculty, IIITD) and M.S Hashmi(Faculty, IIITD) "Dual Band Wireless Power Transfer System using Semi-H Defected Ground Structure for Biomedical Applications" in Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 2019.

• Sambhav Malhotra(B.Tech Student, IIITD) and M.S Hashmi(Faculty, IIITD) " Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer using Defected Ground Structures for UHF RFID Applications" in IEEE RFID-TA 2019.

• Sidhartha Sankar Rout (PhD student, IIITD), Vaibhav Ishwarlal Chaudhari (M.Tech student, IIITD), Suyog Bhimrao Patil (M.Tech student, IIITD), and Sujay Deb (Faculty, IIITD) "RCAS: Critical Load Based Ranking for Efficient Channel Allocation in Wireless NoC", in 32nd IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC 2019)