LABORATORIES & SERVICES                 - Modelling & Simulation Lab •- Control Systems Design Lab •- Embedded Systems Lab •- Hardware in Loop Simulation Lab •- Data Acquisition Lab •- Sensor Calibration & testing Lab •- Actuator Calibration & testing Lab •- Digital Signal Processing Lab •- Computer Vision Lab     Modelling & Simulation Lab •Modelling and simulation form the cornerstone of any analysis or design exercise for any dynamic system. A team of physicists and control engineers at the centre is involved in modelling and simulating a vide variety of dynamic systems including non linear, discrete time, continuous time and hybrid systems. State of the art software tools are used to produce efficient simulations. •Extensive experience exists in modeling the dynamics of aircraft, unmanned vehicles and industrial processes. Of particular interest in aircraft dynamics is modelling of body bending (flexibility) effects, effects of gusts, disturbances and asymmetries on the 3-dimensional motion of the vehicle.  A lot of work has been done in the development of gravity and atmospheric models with high spatial and temporal resolution for accurate flight path prediction. • Control Systems Lab The lab is involved in developing controllers for dynamic systems. The emphasis is on the design of control systems that are robust to modelling errors, un-modeled dynamics or parameters that can vary with time. • •Both classical and modern control design techniques are used for design purposes. The lab has special expertise in H-infinity optimal control design. Time and frequency response analysis, nonlinear simulations and simulations with varying parameters are performed to ascertain the performance and robustness of the feedback systems. Embedded Systems Lab          This lab specializes in the area of embedded system software design, implementation and testing. By working closely with the hardware designers, we provide optimized solutions. Our implementation expertise spans development platforms based on microprocessors, microcontrollers and DSPs.   Our development environment includes facilities for testing and debugging the software by using specialized debugging/testing tools such as simulators, emulators, remote testing GUIs and real time simulation platforms. • Our capabilities include: Real time software development –Software Analysis, Design and Implementation Software Adaptation System Integration Test Environments and Tools – – Hardware-in-Loop Simulation Lab   With hardware in loop simulation, all components are integrated together with real time simulation models replacing the plant. HIL simulation makes possible the validation of  control systems by simulating the plant dynamics in real time, with as much hardware in the loop as possible. State of the art facilities exist at CCI for HIL simulation with online data logging and display. A 3-axis simulation table provides fast and accurate 3-degree of freedom rotational motion for UAV HIL simulation. Facilities exist to simulate realistic actuator loading during simulation.                   Data Acquisition Lab High accuracy measurements during key experiments play an important role in any research and development endeavor. With a team of trained engineers, this lab provides services for signal conditioning, data acquisition, storage and analysis with state of the art equipment, having the capability of acquiring signals up to a rate of 5M samples per second. Latest software tools are available for data processing. The range of our services includes the measurement of pressure, force, strain, acceleration, displacement and temperature. – – Sensor Testing and Calibration Lab Testing and calibration facilities exist for –Attitude and heading reference sensors –Rate gyros and accelerometers –Pressure sensors, force sensors and torque sensors, displacement sensors. Actuator Design and Development Lab This lab is involved in design and development of high quality actuators for UAV applications Computer Vision Lab Latest image registration and recognition techniques are being developed at the lab. The emphasis is on real time implementation of image recognition algorithms.  The  lab works on camera modelling and filtering including calibration, noise detection, edge detection and blur removal. Image segmentation is also covered on the basis of color, intensity and motion field. Research and experimentation is also carried out for pattern recognition,   3-D post determination and correlation. DSP Lab: The Digital Signal Processing (DSP) laboratory comprises of complex DSP systems which offer a verification platform for algorithms used in image processing. The laboratory provides multiple verification and rapid-prototyping platforms which include FPGAs with 6 million gates integrated with DSPs.