Centres of Excellence for Research

Table of Content
Manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing
Renewable energy
Retailing
Biomedical
Communication
Defense Technologies
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Manufacturing
Preventive maintenance using Vibration analysis & Machine Learning
FORECASTING (ML)
GOOD BEARING

FAULTY BEARING

RUBBING CONDITION
Digital Twin in Preventive Maintenance
Digital Twin
Metaverse of Industries
Additive Manufacturing
 Bio-degradable Materials For Automobile

Automobile interior parts:

1. AC air vent
2. Gear knob
3. Cup holders
4. Door handle
5. Door lock controls
6. Mirror fixtures
7. Storage compartment
8. Ventilation controls
and panel
 Synthesis of Raw Material

Sunlight Oven Dry Dried raw

Dry material

Mechanical Size
Nano sized raw Ball Miller Reducer
material

Work Carried out @Centre for Additive Manufacturing, Chennai Institute of

Technology, Chennai.
 Extrusion of Filament and part fabrication

Nozzle
PLA
+
Ball
milled raw
material
Part fabrication

Filament
extrusion

Work Carried out @Centre for Additive Manufacturing, Chennai Institute of

Technology, Chennai.
Orange Peel Reinforced PLA
 Contaminants that pass through plastic air
conditioning vents can cause allergy-like symptoms
such as a cough, sore throat, headache, etc.
 The newly developed material could replace plastics
used in vehicle AC vents.
 The orange peel is rich in limonene which is known
for its anti-cancerous and anti bacterial properties.
 Hence, the orange peel filler material is reinforced
with PLA matrix to make biodegradable material.
 This novel material does not create harmful effect to
Car AC Vent
both health and environment.
Work Carried out @Centre for Additive Manufacturing, Chennai Institute of
Technology, Chennai.
Gear
Wood Reinforced PLA
 Broken wooden furniture's, wooden bark from fallen trees can be
powdered and used as bio fillers to develop bio degradable parts.
 Wood reinforced PLA has the following properties

1.very low tendency to warp or shrink.

2.biodegradable and recyclable.

3.High stiffness

4.High rigidity Car gear

5.Low flexibility knob
 Automotive interiors including hand rest, gear knob can be
fabricated

Work Carried out @Centre for Additive Manufacturing,

Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Egg Shell Reinforced PLA, Snail shell reinforced
PLA, Sea shell reinforced PLA
 Parts like rear mirror holder, trim strip, glove box and
door panels are highly involved dynamic load
conditions which leads to damage and reducing the
lifespan.
 Newly developed reinforcement materials could be
used to fabricate the such automobile parts.
 These automobile parts are in need of high strength
and light weight for load bearing conditions.
 This is supported by the crystalline property present in
the newly developed material.
Pure PLA
 It is a recyclable, natural thermoplastic polyester
that is derived from renewable resources such as
corn starch or sugar cane.
 The filament is biodegradable under certain
conditions with high heat capacity and high
mechanical strength.
 Raw PLA could be used fabricate the following
automotive parts
1.Under the hood components
2.Carpeting
3.Floor mats
4.Upholstery
5.Protective wrappings
Carbon fiber reinforced PLA
 The strength of carbon fiber allows it not only
to be used to make car body parts, such as the
1.Bumpers
2.Spoilers
3.Dashboard panel
4.Floor panel
5.Interior components
6.Rear door panel
 These filaments are ideal for applications that
require superior stiffness, ease of printing,
improved dimensional stability, UV-resistance,
lighter weight parts when compared to standard
structural materials.
Ceramic Reinforced PLA
 Advanced ceramics materials are incorporated into automotive
designs when demanding conditions require a material that is
robust and reliable
 The thermal and electrical properties of ceramic materials
allow them to be used in a variety of components such as,
1.Sensors,
2.Mechanical Seals, Ceramic pressure sensors

3.Ceramic Bearings, and Valves.

 Ceramics are more cost-efficient than metal and more durable
than plastic, and can be found throughout the automotive
industry, as advances in car manufacturing require higher
complexity in automotive components
 Some other product development at
Centre for Additive Manufacturing, Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai.

 Metal Casting (Aluminium & Magnesium Casting)

 Frames
 Cross car beam
 Brackets
Ceramic pressure
 Transmission case
sensors
 Engine cradle
 Exhaust pipes
 Fuselage

 Ceramic Sintering
 Turbine Engine Components
 Spark plugs
 Car brakes / Bearings
 Gas burner nozzles, etc.
Experimental Investigation of Nonlinear dynamical behaviour of shape
memory alloy and its application as a Parallel Manipulator

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Renewable Energy
Smart tiles equipped with piezoelectric discs for efficient energy harvesting and vibration data
collection. By strategically embedding Piezo materials, these tiles convert ambient vibrations into electrical energy,
powering sensors for continuous data monitoring. The design and optimization of the tiles consider factors like
material selection and disc arrangement. Experimental results demonstrate the success of this approach in capturing
vibrations and converting them into usable power. This innovation represents a scalable and eco-friendly solution for
autonomous and wireless sensor nodes in applications such as structural health monitoring and industrial automation.
Network of Nonlinear Vibration Energy
Harvesters-A

(a) Equivalent circuit of a base-excited nonlinear energy

(a) Photograph and (b) harvesting system and (b) equivalent circuit for the
schematic of the internal source impedance determination.
experimental setup.
 Network of Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvesters-B

(a) Simple architecture of em-VEH where a moving

(a) Direct piezoelectric effect with 33 and 31 strain-
charge coupling. (b) Polarization process scheme.
(c) Drawing of bimorph piezoelectric cantilever
beam.
magnet (mover) oscillates with respect to a fixed
coil (stator). (b) Moving magnet across coil
arrangement with discrete components. (c)
Microfabricated em-VEH where a small magnet
oscillates towards a planar coil.
Examples of micro vibration energy
harvester: (a) electromagentic and (b)
(Perpetuum), (c) piezoelectric, (d)
electrostatic.

Three tunable vibration-based solutions: (a)

Piezoelectric cantilever with a movable mass, (b)
Piezoelectric cantilever with magnetic tuning , (c)
Piezoelectric beam with a scavenging and a tuning
part .
Network of Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvesters-
Test Bench
Retailing
Biomedical
BCI & Brainverse
Modelling Brain Dynamics – Logic Gates/Neurons
 Modelling Brain Dynamics – Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy one-layer post-synapse
based network with global
coupling and excitatory
connections
Fuzzy one-layer pre-synapse
based network with global
coupling and excitatory
connections
Two fully connected layers are
considered so that one has
excitatory connections (shown by
red) and another one has inhibitory
links (shown by blue)
Modelling Brain Dynamics
How to analyze a complex system as the brain?

Graph theory
Chaos theory

Information theory
Self-organized criticality
Modelling Brain Dynamics

Synchronization likelihood during

retention interval:
increase in 2-6 Hz synchronization
decrease of 6-10 Hz synchronization

Alzheimer’s disease:
a dysconnection syndrome?
Modelling Brain Dynamics – Complex Networks
Modelling Brain Dynamics – Using AI/ML
Brian as a complex network with higher order interactions

Extreme events are having huge attention after the
COVID pandemic. Modelling extreme events in
complex network with higher order interaction would
help us to understand the propagation of events in
complex chain of network.
Communication
Prediction using Neural Networks
System Identification using Neural
Networks
ML using Neural Networks
High speed communication using Neural Networks
High speed communication using Deep learning Neural
Networks
Chennai Institute of Technology
Consultancy Projects
Non-invasive vibration analysis of a CUMMINS
C1000D5
1000 kVA Three Phase Open Diesel Generator using
frequency signatures

Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring

of machines

Augmented reality and Digital twins

Machine vision systems for retail quality
inspections

Unified platform for multibrand robotic

cooperative management

Terragrid indoor navigation systems for warehouse

UGV’s

UAV visual inspection systems

Defence
A Complete Software and Signal Processing based 3KW
Modernized P-18 Radar LNA Booster T/R switch PA Power supply PA

Low-level IF and trigger Isolation transformer

Platform
RF connectionsconnections compute

Before
modernisation

After
modernisation
Tracking WiFi Signals to Passively See Through Walls
Using NI USRP and LabVIEW
Fractional order and time delay based secure communication
and cryptography using nonlinear oscillators

Direction
50 MHz
finders hacked
band hacked

400 MHz
HAM band band hacked
hacked
Complete software based shooting simulator for indoor
ranges

IRD-DU

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Complete software based shooting simulator for outdoor
ranges

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Artificial Intelligence
Team Augment

Counterfeit
Detection
Detecting Counterfeit Medicine by Gen AI

CTS - GEN AI
 Substandard and Falsified medicines is a life
Team Augment threatening, global and complex problem.

Problem increases as globalized manufacturing and

distribution systems become more complex and cost
competitive.

Problem Over 10% of the medicines in India are counterfiet

Statement This problem has known to cause deaths, heavy

financial loss, increase in resistance to antimicrobial,
anti-parasite, antibiotic treatments.

GEN AI

Problem of substandard/falsification is not limited to

medical industry but is widespread among consumer
goods, food and other industrial needs.
 Team Augment

APPROACH Initial version limited to few medicines but

design extensible to cover all medicinal
products and other products prone to
Evaluate machine learning techniques in substandard/falsification.
Evaluate machine learning techniques in
improving detection of SF medicines.
improving detection of SF medicines.

Initial version will cover detection using

Create amachine
unified patient-centric application limited lab tests.
Evaluate learning techniques in
which willdetection
improving allow patients
of SF to detect and receive
medicines.
alerts regarding SF medicines.
Provide alerts to users upon detection of SF
medicine by regulatory agencies.

Augment existing tools and technologies

and enhance capabilities.
Continuous collaboration with regulatory
agencies and pharmaceutical companies
required for updated regulations.
 Team Augment
USE CASES
Upload Lab Generate
Upload Label Alerts Help
Results Results

Allows the user to Allows the user to Allows users to Allows users to Allows users to

upload images of upload images of generate results view all alerts view frequently

labels and lab results of and check the related to asked questions,

packages of medicine by authenticity of substandard / understand how to

medicine by associating it with medicine using falsified medicines use the application

associating it with appropriate uploaded images. as reported by and known

BACK TO AGEND PAGE
appropriate medicine names. WHO as well as limitations.

medicine names. those detected

Team Augment

WORK FLOW
Team Augment
ARCHITECTURE
Industrial Automation
The Industrial Automation Training centre was established to offer training on robots and

automation systems with its applications in an industrial calibre.

This Centre of Excellence was setup in collaboration with China, during the LU Ban Workshop in

2017, which houses Industrial training setups with PLCs, Mitsubishi Melfa Industrial robot,

Humanoid robots and autonomous robots, where the students are taught to work on Automation

setups.
Training Program

Phase 1 Phase 2
● Basics of sensors, actuators and its ● Work on industry ready systems. The
calibration and interfacing techniques. key element of this laboratory is a one
● Students work on prototype modelling kits of the kind customisable automation
like lego mindstorm, abilix, and c6 creative setup.
bricks. ● Industrial grade articulated robotic arm
● Provides students the confidence and Mitsubishi Melfa RV4FLD ,PLC to
requisite knowledge to work on much automate the process.
complex systems.
LEGO Training Kits

Assembly Blocks with Sensors LEGO Automation Setup

and Actuators
 PLC Training Kits

SIEMENS S7200 PLC KIT DELTA DVP SS SERIES KIT SCHNEIDER M238 PLC KIT
Mitsubishi Melfa Robot Training Setup
5 IR Micromouse and 6 IR Micromouse bots
Smart AC Monitoring System

● Sensors integration
● IOT
● UI
● Algorithm for fault
● AR model
detection
Cockpit Intelligent System

● Alcohol sensors
● Camera for Face detection ● Driver vitals
● Sensors on accelerator, brake and ● IOT
steering wheel ● UI
Level IV Autonomous Car

● Face detection
● Alcohol sensor for engine ● IOT

start ● UI

● Driver vitals ● Control vehicle from remote location

Intelligent Smart Warehousing

● Stock maintenance
● Inventory management
● App development
● AGV for stock movement
Smart Piping for Sustainable System

● Large Farm pipe leakage

detection
● Water quality management
● IOT
Cobot Operation for Automotive Industries

● Vehicle fault detection using

robot and vision system
● Collaborative operation
● 3D printing
● Material handling
● Visual Inspection
Autonomous Guided Vehicle

● LIDAR based AGV

● RFID based inventory
management
● Mechanum wheel movement