Academic Work

RESEARCH PROJECT

Indoor Wi-Fi Localization: (Nov’21 - Apr'22)

This is a B.Tech. project which I and Sindhu Gunturi did under Prof. Ayon Chakraborty, as a part of Sensing and Networked Systems Engineering (SENSE) Group at IIT Madras.

We have studied, worked and conducted experiments on developing various calibration free techniques for the Indoor localization, especially over the WiFi network.

As a part of this project I've also studied the effects on Channel State Information (CSI) from WiFi mode-node w.r.t to the surroundings. Conducted several experiments on logging the CSI with various configurations in the indoors so that it can be later fed to the ML Algorithms.

PROJECTS / COURSE WORK

PathExplorer Robot:           (Sep’21 - Nov'21)

This is a project which we did as a part of course work (Smart Sensing for IOT), instructed by Prof. Ayon Chakraborty

We implemented a path follower robot, in which a user draws an arbitrary path as a hand drawn input, and the car moves in the path as given by user. The car also checks for obstacles in its path and if it is encounters an obstacle, it stops and then it also notifies the APP in which path it encountered the obstacle. So in this way we can visualize the status of the journey the car had made.

Apart from the above functionality, we can manually takeover the control of the car at any given point of time.

Members of Project:


CFI (IITM) - Project Radiscent:     (Sep’20-Aug'21)

A Robust Solution to improve the efficiency in lifestyle by modernising the electric switch, this is a students project.

Designing a gadget that can be retrofitted over existing switches, which can automate the switching action through voice commands, a mobile app., or a remote.

We are a team of 7 students from various departments, in our Electonic Engineering team, we are 3 members - MySelf (EE, UG-3rd yr), Hari (EE, MS-1st yr), Adithyan CG (EE, UG-2rd yr)

RADAR Demonstration:       (Oct’19)

This is a mini-project which we did for the demonstration for our poster topic.

We (a team of 3) worked on a course project under supervision of Dr. Uday Khankhoje, in which we demonstrated 2-D detection of objects (within the range 4.0cms-30.0cms) in Plan Position Indicator Display (PPI Display). We built a working model of a RADAR (in 2D) by programming Arduino UNO, and by using a Sharp IR Sensor.


We did the project by programming Arduino UNO, and used a sharp IR sensor mounted on top of a servo motor, which periodically scans the surroundings and outputs the results in a Plan Position Indicator style.

LABS:

Solving Travelling Salesmen Problem:             (Oct’21)

This is an assignment done in the course - "Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving" taught by Prof. Deepak Khemani, in the 2021 Fall semester.

This assignment is about solving the optimal tour need to be performed by the travelling salesmen, given the cities in the form of co-ordinates. The instructions and rules about the assignment and the input methods are mentioned in the problem statement below.

In this assignment, I tried different algorithms to solve the travelling salesmen problem. I also wrote a Python program which generates the datasets for this problem, it takes the input from user and the user can place 'n' cities in the window in-order to generate a dataset.

I have explored and implemented the following Algorithms:

Building Search Engine and Evaluation:                 (Feb’21- May'21)

This is a project done in the course - "Natural Language Processing" taught by Prof. Sutanu Chakraborti, in the 2021 Spring semester. We are a team of 2.

We implemented IR System (Information Retrieval) from scratch in Python3. Evaluated the built IR system on the "Cranfield Dataset".

Implemented LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis), and compared it to the naive vector space IR System. Also implemented Query Expansion, which is user tunable, and implemented Spell Check in the IR System.

Lab / Project Activities:

Labs_Nithin Uppalapati [EE18B035]