A monthly house bulletin of Defence Research & Development Organisation
■ Vol. 32 No. 3 ■ March 2012
DRDO’s might in display
in the Republic Day
Parade
Prahaar
Three of its latest products accompanied by a
tableau depicting innovative technologies for handling
of snow and avalanche hazards symbolised DRDO’s
contributions to nation building and self-reliance in critical
defence technologies through science and innovation.
Agni 4, the most potent and technologically advanced
among India’s strategic arsenal, adds a new dimension
to country’s capabilities in terms of strategic deterrence
for peace and security. Capable of being launched from
a self-contained road-mobile launcher from anywhere
in the country, the two-stage surface-to-surface
missile with solid-propulsion can reach targets over
3000 km. A quantum leap in indigenous technology,
Agni 4 incorporates composite rocket motor casing,
highly accurate guidance and navigation systems,
modern and compact avionics, digital control system and
many other contemporary and advanced technologies
making it comparable to the best in the world.
Prahaar missile is another cutting-edge technology
recently developed by DRDO for national security. It is
a tactical high-speed missile based on solid propulsion
and is equipped with high-precision inertial navigation
system giving it capability to hit targets around 150
km with pin-point accuracy. The missile, mounted on a
road-mobile launcher,
established all across
carries
significant
north-west and central
payload and can be
Himalayas, SASE issues
equipped with a variety
accurate
avalanche
of warheads. Each
and weather advisories
high-mobility launcher
based
on
various
carries six missiles and
models developed by
multiple launchers can
it. The Establishment
be interlinked to deliver
also trains soldiers in
a near simultaneous
performing duty in these
multi-axis attack on the
areas on avalanche
target with devastating
safety
and
rescue
effect. With its long
methods. SASE is thus
range, high accuracy
known as ‘Saviours of
and short reaction time,
Cold Regions’.
SASE tableau showcasing snow and avalanche hazards
Prahaar, would be an
and mitigation schemes.
invaluable addition in the arsenal of the Indian Armed
Rustom 1 is a medium-altitude long-endurance
Forces.
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that takes-off and lands
Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE),
a DRDO laboratory at Manali, showcased snow and
avalanche hazards and their mitigation schemes in the
inhospitable snow-bound avalanche-prone mountainous
areas of Indian Himalayas through a beautiful tableau.
Indian soldiers keep constant vigil to ensure no attempt of
intrusion is made by our enemies. To facilitate our troops
perform this task with ease, SASE, ensures safe mobility
and living of our troops by issuing timely avalanche
and weather forecast. SASE also controls avalanches
to safeguard the facilities created in the region. Using
remote sensing data such as satellite imageries and
a network of manual and automatic weather stations
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like a conventional aircraft. External pilot standing
close to the runway exercises the take-off and landing
of the UAV and hands over the control to the internal
pilot operating from the ground control station (GCS)
for carrying out rest of the mission. Payload operator
controls the various payloads from GCS to capture
essential video pictures and data. Rustom 1 can fly for
12-15 h, at a speed up to 250 km/h. It is intended to be
used for surveillance, reconnaissance, target acquisition,
fire correction and battlefield damage assessment.
Services and internal security organisations like state
police forces, BSF, CRPF and Coast Guards are the
prospective users of Rustom 1.
The DRDO continthe first to head the
gent was commanded
Organisation which has
by Lt Col VS Thapa,
been led over the years
a 4th generation officer
by illuminati of the caliber
from
the
Regiment
of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam,
of Artillery. He was
our former President. Dr
commissioned
from
Vijay Kumar Saraswat
the Officers Training
is the current head
Academy on 25 August
of the DRDO. The 52
1990 and is certified
DRDO labs, based on
as external pilot from
their core-competence,
IAI, Malat, Israel. He
are
classified
into
was
awarded
the
nine
clusters,
Commendation
Card
namely,
Aeronautics,
by GOC-in-C Eastern
Unmanned aerial vehicle―Rustom 1.
Armaments,
Combat
Command for outstanding achievements during
Vehicles
and
Engineering,
Electronics
and
Computer
operation Hifazat in 2008 and 2010. He also received
Unit Citation from GOC-in-C Eastern Command in Sciences, Materials, Missiles and Strategic Systems,
2010 during his command of UAV troop. Lt Col Thapa Micro Electronics and Devices, Naval Research and
is presently posted as external test pilot to ADE, Development, and Life Sciences. Devoted to innovation
Bengaluru, a premier DRDO laboratory. He was awarded and excellence, DRDO remains committed to make India
the Commendation Certificate by the Director, ADE in strong and self-reliant. It has designed, developed and
January 2011 for conventionally flying first successful productionised world-class weapon systems, equipment,
maiden flight of Rustom 1 on 16 October 2010.
and complex technologies, which include strategic and
DRDO is the R&D wing of the Ministry of Defence, tactical missiles, combat aircrafts and aeronautical
with a vision to empower India with cutting-edge defence systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, combat vehicles,
technologies by achieving self-reliance in critical defence armaments and ammunition, radars, electro-optic and
technologies and systems and by indigenisation and acoustic sensors, electronic warfare systems, lifeinnovation, while equipping the Services with state- support systems and materials. The production value of
of-the-art weapon systems and equipment. Prof. DS major DRDO systems inducted into the Services during
Kothari, the eminent scientist and educationist was the last decade stands at over Rs 1,20,000 crores.
Agni 4
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Lakshya 2 proves its full capabilities
Flying at sea skimming height of about
15 m at DRDO’s test range at Balasore,
Lakshya 2, the advanced version of DRDO’s
pilotless target aircraft, demonstrated its full
capabilities on 25 January 2012. In a flight
lasting over 30 min, it dived from an altitude
of around 800 m to 12 m and maintained the
required altitude for the specified time before
demonstrating auto climb. The entire flight was
pre-programmed and demonstrated various
technologies and sub-systems including
software correction, auto rudder scheme to
prevent loss of mission, and engaging and
flying in way-point navigation mode while
carrying two tow targets. One of the tow targets
was released during the flight and the other was
deployed while way-point navigation was on. This was
the first time in its 10th flight that the capabilities of the
Lakshya 2 were demonstrated achieving all the user’s
objectives. Lakshya 2 has been designed and developed
by the Bengaluru-based Aeronautical Development
Establishment, a premier DRDO lab specialising in
UAVs and flight control systems.
DRDO – DU sign MoU for enhanced Academic
Interaction and R&D Collaboration
“Students get a
glow on their faces
whenever there is
a talk of getting an
opportunity to work
in DRDO”, said
Prof. Dinesh Singh,
Vice
Chancellor,
University of Delhi.
Prof. Singh was
addressing a galaxy of DU academicians and top DRDO
scientists during a brief ceremony held on 23 January
2012 to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
between DRDO and University of Delhi to enhance
academic interaction and R&D collaboration. Prof. Singh
described it as a red letter day in the history of University
of Delhi as DRDO is a place where country’s best minds
work to develop technologies to defend the country. “It
is imperative for a university to serve the country and
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this MoU is a step
in this direction”,
said Prof. Singh.
Mentioning about
the
University’s
Cluster Innovation
Centre, he said that
this will change the
way students learn.
Dr VK Saraswat, SA to RM, Secretary, Department of
Defence R&D and DG, DRDO, in his address highlighted
the long standing relationship of mutual collaboration
between DU and DRDO right from the days of Prof.
DS Kothari, the first SA to RM and an eminent physicist
from the DU. Congratulating the gathering, he described
the MoU as a step in formalising the collaborative efforts
between the two great institutions and making them
more focused. He said, “we made an informal beginning
about a year ago leading to this MoU. I am sure the
champions on both the sides will take leadership role
to fructify the collaboration”. Emphasising the role
of academic institutions in development of newer
technologies, especially in areas where the maturity
level of technologies was low (0-3 on a 10 point scale),
he briefly discussed the ladder approach evolved and
followed in DRDO in developing new products. He set the
roadmap by identifying certain key areas such as laser
physics, cyber security, cryptography, nanotechnology,
MEMS, and sensors for specific applications for
collaboration between the two institutions.
Earlier, welcoming the gathering, Dr V Bhujanga
Rao, DS and CC R&D (HR), DRDO HQ, said that
coming together of these two great organisations will
provide synergy. Shri RK Sinha, Registrar, University of
Delhi; Prof. Madan Mohan Chaturvedi, Head, Cluster
Innovation Centre; Dr AK Singh, Director, Human
Resources Development, DRDO HQ, Directors of Delhibased labs of DRDO and several senior professors of
DU were present during the ceremony.
Monograph Released
Defence Scientific Information
and Documentation Centre
(DESIDOC), in one of its roles,
functions as the publication wing
of the DRDO and brings out a
large number of publications
covering current development
pertaining to defence research
and development. One of
the
publications
brought
out by DESIDOC is DRDO
Monograph, a serial publication,
which aims at disseminating in-depth subject-specific
information. DESIDOC has so far published a number
of monographs covering multi-disciplinary areas of
science and technology. DESIDOC has now brought
out a new monograph, Dosimetry of Internal Emitters
in Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Protection (Rs 450,
293 p.) under the monograph series. The monograph
has been written by Dr AR Reddy, former Director
Defence Laboratory (DL), Jodhpur, and Dr SC Jain,
Sc F (retd), Centre for Fire, Explosives and Environment
Safety (CFEES), Delhi.
Monograph on Dosimetry of Internal Emitters in
Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Protection provides
different aspects of the subject that would be useful
to students, teachers, and researchers in nuclear
medicine and radiological safety. The book starts with a
crisp overview of the subject for the first pass reading.
It covers basics such as dose concepts, radio-nuclide
decay schemes, interaction of radiation with matter,
essential physical as well as biological inputs for dose
estimates, and ICRP recommendations. Advanced
topics like dosimetric formalisms, dosimetric phantoms,
Monte Carlo computational techniques for dose
estimation, dosimetric aspects of targeted radionuclide
therapies, embryo/fetus dosimetry, level of dosimetry
of internal emitters relevant for different situations, and
uncertainties in dose estimations are dealt in detail.
The monograph also includes formulation of Reference
Indian Adult and its mathematical description as well as
dose estimations in different diagnostic nuclear medicine
investigations applicable to Indian Reference Adults.
Dose reconstruction, retrospective dose estimation,
and decontamination and decorporation of internal
contaminations in cases of radiation emergencies have
been presented briefly.
The monograph was released by Shri SS Bajaj,
Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, and Dr A
Muruganathan, in the inaugural function of 43rd Annual
Conference of Society of Nuclear Medicine.
The monograph can be ordered to:
OIC Marketing
DESIDOC, DRDO
Ministry of Defence
Metcalfe House, Delhi -110 054
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SA inaugurates three Centres of Excellence at CVRDE
Dr VK Saraswat, SA to
will be dominated by these
RM, Secretary, Department
systems. Dr Saraswat said
of Defence R&D and
that DRDO is planning to
DG, DRDO, inaugurated
build robotic soldiers as
three landmark centres,
part of unmanned fighting
namely, Combat Vetronics
systems for the future. He
Technology
Centre
urged CVRDE to design
(COVETEC),
Suspension
and develop aircraft landing
Test Facility (STF) and
gear systems for combat,
CVRDE-BEML Technology
commercial aircraft and
Centre at Combat Vehicles
unmanned aerial vehicles.
Dr Saraswat inaugurating the Combat Vetronics
Research and Development
Dr Saraswat exhorted
Technology Centre.
Establishment
(CVRDE),
CVRDE to have a dream of developing a ‘lightest main
Chennai. Others present during the occasion were
battle tank’. He lauded CVRDE for entering into much
Shri S Sundaresh, DS and CC R&D (ACE&SI), Shri
awaited area of Vetronics which will take a significant
VRS Natarajan, Chairman and Managing Director,
position in automobiles like avionics in aerospace
BEML; Shri R Shankar, Director of Combat Vehicles and
systems. Establishing the STF, the only facility of its
Engineering, DRDO HQ, and Dr P Sivakumar, Director,
class in the country, will surely add value in the combat
CVRDE.
vehicle development, he said.
During his inaugural address, Dr Saraswat
Shri VRS Natarajan during his address proudly
mentioned that harmonious association of PSUs
mentioned that BEML has formally joined its hands
like BEML, ordnance factories and DRDO is essential
with CVRDE through the CVRDE-BEML Technology
for the production of defence products and off-sets. He
Centre. India is one of the nine countries in the world
expressed that the gap in the transformation of technology
with capability to develop their own main battle tanks.
to product will be greatly reduced by establishing such
He added that BEML will maintain its close association
technology centres and suggested that similar centres
with CVRDE and can strengthen CVRDE in the areas
can be established in other DRDO laboratories. He
of transmission, suspension, hydraulics, etc. He
also added that similar to National Programme on
also indicated setting similar centres in other DRDO
Engine Development, CVRDE should initiate a national
programme on transmission. He highlighted the laboratories.
importance of robotics and unmanned combat vehicles
Shri Sundaresh in his address to the gathering
incorporating artificial intelligence as the future warfare mentioned that CVRDE-BEML Technology Centre, a
Dr Saraswat inaugurating the CVRDE-BEML
Technology Centre.
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Dr Saraswat showing keen interest in Sprung Mass
Suspension Test Rig.
new initiative, should focus on engine, transmission,
suspension for all combat vehicles, which will spur and
motivate young scientists and will open new opportunities
to become a world leader in battle tank technologies.
appreciated Shri Ponraj for the effort in bringing out the
book which is essential for dissemination of information
to the people of our country on DRDO’s contribution.
Dr P Sivakumar in his address stated that STF is
a unique facility and the COVETEC would steer stateof-the-art technology in armoured fighting vehicles.
Besides, it would cater to developing vehicle electronic
gun control system, fire control system and navigation
system for the battle tanks to be developed by CVRDE.
He mentioned that trials of Arjun MBT Mark II, designed
and developed by CVRDE, will start from June 2012
onwards. He said that Indian Army has ordered 124
units of Arjun MBT Mark II and more are expected.
On the occasion, Dr Saraswat also released a book,
titled “Athi Naveena Arjun Muthnmai Por Urthi”, on Arjun
MBT in Tamil by Shri S Ponraj, Technical Officer B. He
Dr Saraswat releasing the book on MBT Arjun
authored by Shri S Ponraj.
Golden Jubilee/Raising Day Celebrations
NMRL, Ambernath
Naval
Materials
Research
Laboratory
(NMRL),
Ambernath
celebrated Lab Raising
Day on 5 January 2012.
The
programme
was
inaugurated by Shri RS
Hastak, Director, NMRL.
On this occasion various
lab-level
awards
like
Scientist of the Year
Award, Technology Group Award, Admin and Allied
Category Award, DRTC Award and Director’s Cash
Award were distributed to the employees for meritorious
performance. The employees who completed 25 years
of service in DRDO were also felicitated. Retired NMRL
employees were also invited for this function. Various
Group Heads and Head of the Departments presented
the technical and scientific achievements in 2011 and
the goals ahead for the year 2012. At the end Shri
Hastak addressed the gathering and highlighted the
achievements of the NMRL in 2010 and stressed upon
the goals set for the year ahead.
TBRL, Chandigarh
Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL),
Chandigarh, celebrated the conclusion of the yearlong Golden Jubilee Celebrations on 15 January 2012.
TBRL was raised in 1961 to design and develop new
generation weapons through basic and applied research
in the field of armaments. One of the major objectives of
the Laboratory is the evolution of critical data essential
for design, development and evaluation of warheads and
advanced weapon systems. TBRL is also engaged in
technology development in the fields of high explosives
processing, detonics and shock dynamics, blast and
damage, immunity, lethality and fragmentation, defeat
of armour and performance evaluation of warheads and
other armament systems. Over the years, the Laboratory
has grown from merely a test and evaluation centre to
an institute with expertise and competence in technology
development, simulation, design and development of
different explosives devices and related systems for
armament applications.
Shri Avinash Chander, DS and CC R&D (MSS),
DRDO HQ, was the Chief Guest and Shri S Sundaresh,
DS and CC R&D (ACE&SI), DRDO HQ, was the Guest
of Honour during the occasion. The celebrations were
attended by serving and retired employees of TBRL,
its former Directors and many senior scientists from
DRDO HQ. Dr Manjit Singh, Director, TBRL, welcomed
the guests and presented the achievements of the
Laboratory over the last 50 years.
Shri Avinash Chander highlighted the role of TBRL
in processing and manufacturing of explosive devices
and its characterisation leading to self-reliance in critical
technologies of national importance. He complimented
the Laboratory for the design, development and limited
series production of precision explosive initiators and
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the efforts of the
Laboratory
in
developing
key
technologies, which
have been adopted
Shri Sundaresh, in
his address, lauded
for realisation of
the efforts of TBRL
systems of strategic
for creating a stateimportance. On the
of-the-art
facility
occasion,
various
for
performance
performance awards
evaluation.
He
for
outstanding
also
congratulated
contributions were
the
officers
and
distributed to the
staff of TBRL for
officers and staff of
conceptualising,
the Laboratory. A
Shri
Avinash
Chander
lighting
the
lamp.
Shri
Sundaresh
(third
from
right)
planning
and
was also present during the occasion.
scintillating cultural
implementing
the
unique test range in the country. He further appreciated programme was organised to end the event.
high voltage pulse
discharge
system
for use in advanced
armament systems.
Personnel News
Appointment
Dr SK Chaudhuri, Sc H, has
been appointed Director, Research
Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad.
He obtained his BEE degree from
Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1971
and MTech from IIT-M, Chennai, in
1978. He was awarded Common
Wealth Scholarship for PhD in
Aerospace Electronics System with
specialisation in Flight Control System from Cranfield
Institute of Technology, UK, in 1985. He is also Project
Director, Missile Launched Precision Guided Munitions
(MLPGM), in RCI.
Dr Chaudhuri has established state-of-the-art
simulation technology, i.e., Hardware-in-Loop Simulation
in India and designed flight proven Guidance and
Control System along with Embedded Systems. He has
configured Advanced Simulation Centre and Remote
HILS facility for missile systems including anti-ballistic,
anti-tank and other tactical missiles, which has resulted
in successful flight trials. He has made significant
contributions in the development and implementation
of Kalman filters for missile guidance applications to
improve the terminal accuracy.
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Dr Chaudhuri has been honored as a Fellow of INAE
in 2009-2010. He has also been conferred upon with
many prestigious awards at national and international
forums including Dr Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in
1994; DRDO Award for Excellence in 1998 and 2010;
DRDO Technology Award in 2002; DRDO Scientist of the
Year Award in 2008 by Prime Minister of India; DRDO
Path Breaking Research Awards in 2007 and 2008 by
Prime Minister of India; Best Paper Award from AIAA,
USA in 2001 and Scientist of Calcutta in 1996.
Dr Chaudhuri has delivered guest lectures in a number
of US, UK and Indian universities. He has Chaired
sessions in national and international conferences and
published papers in national and international journals.
He is a Visiting Professor and Visitor’s Nominee for
Professors selection in IIT-B, Mumbai, honoured as
examiner for Doctoral/Masters degree in IITs, IISc and
other leading institutes. He is a senior member of IEEE,
member of Aeronautical Society of India, CSI, SSI and
specialist member for ARDB System Panel, etc. He was
the Chairman for International Conference on Avionics
Systems (ICAS-2008) held at RCI, Hyderabad, and
edited a book titled Recent Trends in Avionics Systems,
containing a collection of papers presented in ICAS2008.
Manpower Development Activities
Conferences/Seminars/Symposia/Training Courses/Meetings
ARDE, Pune
Armament
Research
and
Development
Establishment (ARDE), Pune, organised a two-day
DRDO-Academia Interactive Workshop during 16-17
December 2011. Panel members of Armament Research
Board (ARMREB), task/project holder from academia
and senior officers from DRDO HQ attended the
Workshop. Shri AM Datar, OS and Director, ARDE, and
Shri SN Asthana, Director of Armaments, DRDO HQ, and
Secretary ARMREB gave the inaugural address. Dr SK
Salwan, Chairman, Dr BD Nagchaudhari DRDO Chair,
was the Chairman of the Workshop. Presentations were
made for undertaking new armament-related projects
jointly with academic.
was felt relevant and useful. The speakers included the
scientists of the CAIR working in this area along with
experts from industry and academics. The course was
organised to take the participants through the topics
of voice communication protocols on internet, features
of speech enabling automatic recognition, speech
coding techniques and statistical methods for speech/
speaker recognition. Each session was supplemented
with practical demonstrations of these technologies. An
illustration of web-based application being developed
by IBM was also covered. The speakers also covered
speech-based biometrics and audio steganography.
Dr G Athithan, OS and Sc H, delivered the keynote
address on Evaluation of Speech Technologies from
Telephony to Internet. The external speakers were
from Siemens Corporate Research, Bengaluru; Central
Forensic Science Laboratory, Chandigarh; Voice
and Speech Systems, Bengaluru; Amrita Universirty,
Coimbatore; and IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi.
Twenty scientists participated in the Course.
CVRDE, Chennai
Shri Datar (centre) with other dignitaries during
the inauguration of the Workshop.
CAIR, Bengaluru
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
(CAIR), Bengaluru, organised a Continuing Education
Programme (CEP) on Speech Technology in Internet
during 16-20 January 2012.
Combat Vehicles Research and Development
Establishment (CVRDE), Chennai, organised an
International Training Programme on Unmanned Ground
Vehicles (UGV) during 5-10 December 2011 at IITM
Research Park, Chennai. The Course was conducted by
the Engineering Design Department of Indian Institute
of Technology-Madras (IIT-M).
Dr P Sivakumar, Director, CVRDE, inaugurated the
Course and delivered the inaugural address. During his
The progress in speech technology has made the
design voice-based browsing applications on internet
viable. The voice-based browsing applications use Voice
over IP for voice communication, automatic speech/
speaker recognition, and speech synthesis technologies
for voice interaction. In parallel to visual interaction
through html, voice interaction is possible through
voice xml. CAIR has been developing technologies
in the area of VoIP, automatic speech and speaker
recognition and speech coding. Therefore a CEP,
focused on providing an insight into these technologies,
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inaugural address he mentioned that the unmanned
ground systems have a huge potential for the future and
DRDO should develop the necessary UGVs to meet
the various challenges of the future. He also suggested
that more such training courses should be conducted
to update DRDO scientists about the current and future
technologies in this field. Dr K Ramamurthy, Dean,
Academic Services, IIT-M, presided over the function.
Shri K Krishnamurthy, Associate Director, Smt Jayashree
Varadhan, Shri G Kannan, Additional Directors from
CVRDE also attended the inaugural function besides
the participants and the faculty.
The main objective of the course was to introduce
the latest technologies in the design and development
of UGVs and to understand the future directions in this
exciting field. Apart from 23 scientists from CVRDE, 10
scientists from CAIR, LRDE, both in Bengaluru, VRDE,
Ahmednagar, and R&DE (E), Pune, also attended
the training Course. Lectures from eminent faculties
from USA, UK, South Africa, South Korea, Singapore
and India on various aspects of design, simulation,
navigation, guidance and control, and other areas were
conducted as part of this training Course.
HEMRL, Pune
Ninety-one participants including Service Officers
attended the Workshop. There were 17 technical
presentations and five presentation from the traders
during the day. After the presentations from all the
stakeholders, there was a fruitful discussion and
deliberation.
NMRL, Ambernath
The Workshop was inaugurated by the Chief
Guest Lt Gen Vinod Nayanar, AVSM, DG, Artillery,
Naval Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL),
Ambernath, organised a CEP on Testing and
Characterisation of Materials during 12-16 December
2011. The course was designed to revise and upgrade the
knowledge and to get familiarised with the advancement
in the technological challenges in pursuing current and
prospective projects of DRDO’s interests. Since NMRL is
developing materials particularly for naval applications,
the testing and characterisation of materials are of
paramount interest. The Course was hence formulated
with the vision of the NMRL to strengthen the core
competence and to train manpower in this direction.
A moment during the inauguration of the Workshop.
Participants of the Course.
A one-day Workshop on Bi-Modular Charge System
for 155 mm Howitzer was organised by High Energy
Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune, on
19 January 2012. The objective of the Workshop was
to bring various agencies, namely, developers, users,
production and inspection agencies on one platform
to discuss the various issues related to development
and productionisation of Bi-Modular Charge System for
155 mm Howitzer.
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Shri S Sundaresh, DS and CC R&D (ACE&SI). Lt Gen
Gurdeep Singh, AVSM, VSM, Commandant, School of
Artillery and Dr Haridwar Singh, emeritus scientist and
former Director, HEMRL, were the Guest of Honour.
Maj Gen PS Shankar, VSM, GOC, 41 Artillery Division;
Maj Gen Vikas Joshi, ADG (Artillery); Brig GS Talwar,
DDG Artillery (Operations); Col M Ravi Rao, Director
Artillery-5; Shri ER Sheikh, DDG (PX&EP); Shri Bhopal
Singh, Director, ODC, Bhandara; Dr SN Asthana,
Director, Armaments, DRDO HQ; Dr BR Gandhe, former
Director, Armaments, DRDO HQ; Shri RK Syal, former
Director, DL, Jodhpur; Shri RS Gauba, Addl Director,
Dte. of Armaments and Mrs Chandrika Kaushik, Addl
Director, DISB also participated in the Workshop.
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Eminent scientists/academicians across various
DRDO labs, IITs, CSIR, and in-house speakers delivered
lectures during the Course.
The various topics covered during the Course
were: Mechanical testing of materials; microstructureproperties relationship; fatigue and fracture behaviour
of structural materials; fatigue life prediction; scanning
electron microscopy; transmission electron microscopy;
XRD and crystallography; corrosion testing; nondestructive testing; ceramics characterisation; composite
characterisation; thermal & structural characterisation
of polymer; scanning probe microscopy; design of
experiments
and statistical quality control. Visits
to different departments of NMRL and to Ordnance
Factory, Ambernath, were also organised. Twenty-nine
participants, including nine from NMRL attended the
Course.
PXE, Chandipur
Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE),
Chandipur, organised a CEP on Advanced Scientific
Computing using MATLAB during 19-23 December
2011. The Course was designed to develop the uses
of MATLAB in the related working areas. Major thrust
was given to advances in computing techniques,
MATLAB basics; computational statistics for scientist
and engineers; high-speed image processing using
IIT, Kharagpur, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, and
Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur.
Maj Gen P Mathur, Director, PXE, graced the
inaugural function and also distributed certificates to
participants in the valedictory function. Dr HS Panda,
Sc E was the Course Director.
RCI, Hyderabad
Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad, organised
a special course on Advanced Antenna Design
and Wave Propagation during 9-13 January 2012.
Dr SK Chaudhuri, OS and Director, RCI, inaugurated the
Course and released the Course material. The Course
was designed for scientists/officers.
Twenty-five participants including 20 from other
DRDO laboratories/establishments attended the
Course. The faculty comprised experts from National
Institute of Technology, Warangal; G Pullaiah College
of Engineering, Kurnool; Defence Electronics Research
Laboratory, Hyderabad; Electronics and Radar
Development Establishment, Bengaluru, and RCI,
Hyderabad.
Dr Chaudhuri (fourth from right) along with
the participants of the Course.
Maj Gen P Mathur lighting the lamp in the inauguration function.
MATLAB; latest trends in optimisation techniques;
numerical solution of differential equation using FDM;
computational techniques for electrodynamics; spectral
method; fast image registration algorithm using
MATLAB; numerical approximation of integral of analytic
function and ODF using SIMULINK. The topics were
dealt in details by expert faculty from PXE, Chandipur;
The topics covered during the course include
basics of antenna; conventional antennas; basics of
wave propagation; numerical techniques; Tera Hertz
technology; simulation and 3-D EM simulators; Fractals
meta material antennas, etc., analysis and synthesis
of arrays; adaptive and smart antennas; microstrip
antennas; radomes technology; digital beam forming
and phase array antennas; missile antennas; evaluation
of antenna systems; advances in EW antennas; and
advances in radar antennas. Visits to CAR, tower top
and ARSEEK facilities were also organised.
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Dr CG Balaji, OS and Sc H, distributed
prizes to the winners and certificates to
the participants in the valedictory function.
Shri M Sankar Kishore, Sc G was the Course
Director.
SFC, Jagdalpur
SFC, Jagdalpur, organised a CEP on
Introduction to Gambit Ansys Fluent during
9-13 January 2012. Shri PN Tengli, GM,
SFC, presided over the function. Lectures
during the CEP included introduction and
application to CFD; introduction to meshing;
creating and meshing simple geometric;
turbulence modelling and heat transfer
modelling; CFD simulations strategies;
unsteady flow simulation; etc. Many case
studies like generation of aerodata, kinetic
heating of aerospace vehicles and particle
impingement inside rocket motors were
also discussed. Shri MVL Ramesh, Sc E,
presided over the valedictory function and
distributed certificates to the participants.
Shri SK Panigrahi, Sc E, was the Course
Director and Shri Tejasvi K, Sc D, was the
Course Coordinator.
Visits to DRDO Labs/Estts
ARDE, Pune
ISSA, Delhi
� Brig AK Gupta, Cdr, Weapons and Trials
Rear Admiral Deepak Bali, Flag Officer,
Doctrine and Concept, on 18 January 2012.
Wing, Infantry School, Mhow, accompanied
by Col Rajeev Kapoor, SM, on 18 January
2012.
� Lt Gen Gurdeep Singh, AVSM, VSM,
Commandant School of Artillery, Devlali, and
Shri S Sundaresh, DS and CC R&D (ACE&SI)
on 19 January 2012. They also visited static
display of ARDE developed stores.
Rear Admiral Deepak Bali taking keen interest
in the project activities of navy.
LRDE, Bengaluru
Lt Gen Gurdeep Singh being presented memento
by Dr SV Gade, Assoc. Director, ARDE.
CAIR, Bengaluru
Maj Gen H Gopalan, ADG Army AD, on
25 January 2012. He later visited BFSR-SR,
Bharani, Active Array Facility, Rohini and
Aslesha Radars.
Lt Gen Narendra Singh, SM, VSM,
DCOAS (P&S), on 17 January 2012.
Lt Gen Narender Singh at the Robotics
Laboratory of CAIR.
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Maj Gen H Gopalan being briefed
about the LSTAR radar.