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Design, Control and Experimental Validation of a Robust Adaptive Feedback Linearization Controller for a Quadcopter Manipulator System
A quadcopter manipulator system (QMS) is an aerial robot comprising a quadcopter with a three degree of freedom manipulator mounted at the bottom of the vehicle. An aerial robot can reach otherwise inaccessible ... -
Design, Development And Flight Control Of Sapthami - A Fixed Wing Micro Air Vehicle
(2010-09-21)Two micro air vehicles, namely Sapthami and Sapthami-flyer, are developed in this thesis. Their total weight is less than 200grams each. They fit inside a 30cm and 32cm sphere respectively and carry the commercially available ... -
Design, development, and clinical validation of KaraMetrics: A sensor-based hand function assessment tool for stroke rehabilitation
Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability worldwide, with persistent hand dysfunction severely limiting independence and quality of life for survivors. Existing clinical assessments of hand function such as the Fugl-Meyer ... -
Design, Fabrication and Application of In situ Total Internal Reflection (TIR) Raman Tribometer For the Chemical Analysis of Tribological Systems
In conventional tribological experiments that study friction and wear behavior of materials, the contact interface is hidden by the contacting bodies. The physical or chemical phenomena taking place at the interface must ... -
Design, Optimization and Field Validation of Low Head Hydro Powered Turbine Pumps and Piston Pumps for driving stream flows in the range 40-120 l/s and 5-20 l/s respectively
This thesis focuses on developing optimized self-operating pumps using flows and head of perennial streams or rivers for decentralized irrigation and drinking water supply needs of local communities living by the river ... -
Design, Simulation, Microfabrication and Characterization of a 16 MHz 1D-pMUT-Array
Ultrasound transducers are being used in a variety of biomedical applications. Conventional ultrasound transducers used currently for medical imaging are quite bulky, these transducers also consume considerable amounts of ... -
Destabilisation and Failure of Cylindrical Nanopores : A Phase Field Study
(2017-11-28)Phase field models have played an important role in shaping our understanding of a variety of micro structural phenomena in materials. Their attractive features include (a) their ability to capture instabilities in ... -
Detection of Trends in Rainfall of Homogeneous Regions and Hydro-Climatic Variables of Tapi Basin with their Attribution
(2018-07-14)In the present work, methodology of statistical analysis of change evolved by Kundzewicz and Robson (204) is revised to obtain a robust methodology named as “Comprehensive Aproach” which addresses research gaps of earlier ... -
Determination Of Isopectral Rotating And Non-Rotating Beams
(2016-04-27)In this work, rotating beams which are isospectral to non-rotating beams are studied. A rotating beam is isospectral to a non-rotating beam if both the beams have the same spectral properties i.e; both the beams have the ... -
Developement Of Aluminium Foam : An Experimental And Numerical Study
(2010-07-06)Metal foams are lightweight structures and have large use in many components acting as impact energy absorbers. They have exceptional mechanical, thermal and acoustic properties. The design or selection of foam for packaging ... -
Developing A Dialogue Based Knowledge Acquisition Method For Automatically Acquiring Expert Knowledge To Diagnose Mechanical Assemblies
(2013-06-20)Mechanical assembly is an important step during product realization, which is an integrative process that brings together the parts of the assembly, the people performing the assembly and the various technologies that are ... -
Developing Decision Support for Electric Vehicle (EV) Adoption & Charging Infrastructure Planning
Majorly reliant on petroleum products, the transportation sector accounts for 25% of the global energy demand and 23% of carbon dioxide emissions. Among all the modes of transportation, road vehicles are the primary sources ... -
Developing Frameworks for Evaluating Sustainable Transportation Measures in terms of Quality of Life
The transportation system is one of the main pillars impacting Quality of Life (QOL) as it fulfills people's basic needs by providing access to daily activities. Rapid urbanization, with more people migrating to urban areas ... -
Developing SCR Plate Catalysts for Sustainable NOx Reduction in High Dust Thermal Power Plants
The primary aim of this research is to address NOx emission reductions from high ash/dust environments of coal-driven thermal power plants prevalent in India and other regions using low-grade coal with significant fly ash ... -
Development and application of a new method for detection of structural equivalence in graphs
This thesis mainly concerns the isomorphism problem encountered in computerized structural synthesis of kinematic chains. The contributions of the thesis to the study of structural aspects of linkages are the following. 1. ... -
Development and Application of Kinetic Meshless Methods for Euler Equations
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-10-17)Meshless methods are a relatively new class of schemes for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Their special characteristic is that they do not require a mesh but only need a distribution of points ... -
Development and Characterization of Ordered Magnetic Nanocomposite
Magnetic nano-particles dispersed in a non-magnetic matrix is promising for storage technology. Additionally, such magnetic nano composite (MNC) materials have potential applications in the field of telecommunication, ... -
Development And Control Of Urban Water Network Models
(2013-10-17)Water distribution systems convey drinking water from treatment plant and make available to consumers’ taps. It consists of essential components like pipes, valves, pumps, tanks and reservoirs etc. The main concern in the ... -
Development and critical assessment of a new flic method for base flows
The motivation for the present work stems from two complex base flow problems of relevance to satellite launch vehicles, namely the flow about the base of a rocket body containing an exhaust jet and the aerodynamics of ...