Centre for Aerospace Systems Design

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Centre for Aerospace Systems Design Engineering
(CASDE), IIT Bombay

• Technical Presentations to the Scientific
  Programmes Committee (SPC) Meeting of CASDE, July
  05 2003

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Programme Details

• Confirmation of Minutes of meeting of June 10th
  2002 1005 Hrs.
• Technical Presentations and Laboratory
  Visits 1010 Hrs.
• Academic Programme by Prof. Joshi 1010 Hrs.
• IMSL / Infrastructure by Prof. Joshi 1020 Hrs.
• MAV Programme by Prof. Arya 1030 Hrs.
• Framework Development by Prof. Sudhakar 1045
  Hrs.
• WingOpt Studies by Prof. Mujumdar 1100 Hrs.
• 3-D Duct Design by Prof. Sudhakar
  1115 Hrs.
• Propulsion Module by Prof. Sudhakar 1125 Hrs.
• Visit to Laboratories/Facilities 1130 Hrs.

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CASDE Objectives for 2002-2003

• Revision of Syllabus for Systems Engineering
• Consolidation of Design, Build Fly Activity
• Upgradation of Laboratory Infrastructure
• Preliminary Studies on Autonomous Navigation
• MDO Framework Development to Version 2.0
• MDO Studies with NASTRAN STAR CD
• Targeted Studies for OILS/AILS for MAV

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Revised Specialization in SDE
• Programme of 24 months (18 Months) Duration
• Core-5 (7) Electives-4(2) Labs.-3(2),
  Seminars-2(1)
• New Courses on Applied Mechatronics MDO
• Newly Introduced Institute Elective
• Main Project of 14 (10-12) Months Duration
• Augmented List of Electives
• Eligibility Expanded to Include Fresh Non-Aero.
• Course Contents of a Few Courses also Revised

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Contents of Applied Mechatronics Course
• Review of basic electronic devices.
• Digital electronic components and their
  application.
• Data acquisition.
• Introduction to micro-controllers Adapt 11 Board
  (68HC11).
• Sensors (Conventional/ MEMS).
• Actuators.
• Hands on experience with above referred
  devices/components.
• Group project on mechatronics system integration.

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Activities During 2002-2003

• An Example of Mechatronics Project

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Contents of MDO Course
• Introduction to Multidisciplinary Design
  Optimization (MDO).
• Coupled systems.
• Classification of MDO problem formulations.
• MDO architectures based on these concepts.
• Concurrent subspace optimization, collaborative
  optimization and
• BLISS.
• Sensitivity analysis in MDO.
• Approximation concepts and surrogate modelling.
• Software and IT issues in MDO.
• MDO frameworks.

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Publications
• 3 Papers in International Conferences
• 5 Papers in National Conferences
• 1 Paper in National Journal
• 2 Ph. D. Seminars
• 4 M. Tech. Dissertations
• 1 B. Tech. Project

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Workshops, Courses, Meetings etc.
• 2 Workshops 1 Each on MAV MDO
• 5 Meetings JPC/SPC, ARDB, SIG-MDO,
  Co- Chairman Reviews
• 1 CEP Applied Mechatronics at ARDE
• Others Session in Int. Conf., Telecon. With
  PW, RAP Data Measurements
• 5 Invited Lectures by CASDE Faculty at NIAS,
  DRDL, Aero. India, Round Table on SE, ADE
• 5 Distinguished Visitors to CASDE for Various
  Activities e.g. Seminar, Modelling/MDO Related
  etc.

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Activities During 2002-2003

• IMSL Infrastructure
• IMSL is a repository of Software Hardware tools
  for carrying out component/system level
  modelling, simulation integration studies.
• Sensors, actuators, micro-controllers are
  regularly procured for supporting on-going
  student projects.
• A number of in-house and external activities are
  taken up in the broad area of system simulation.

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Hardware-in-Loop Simulator for CASDE MAV

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Activities During 2002-2003

• RAP Trajectory Data Logging for ADRDE

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Activities During 2002-2003

• Faculty Staff of CASDE
• Investigators A.Joshi, P.M. Mujumdar, K.
  Sudhakar
• Assoc.Faculty S.K. Sane, A.G. Marathe, K.K.
  Issac, S.P. Bhat, P.S. Gandhi, H. Arya
• Project Staff Amitay Issacs, Abhinay Masurekar,
  Sapna Babu, Vipin Verghese, Santosh
  Abhyankar, Amy
• Office Staff Ajita Jadhav, Josephine Pamela,
  Sanjay Mohite, Supriya Khatu

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