AVINASH SIRAVURU

avinash.siravuru@gmail.com
CURRENT POSITION: Research Intern, Robotics Research Centre, IIIT-Hyderabad (July11 onwards) PAST EXPERIENCE: Graduate Trainee at HONDA Motorcycle and Scooter India. (July10-June11) EDUCATION: Year 2004 2006 2006-10 Course Class X, S.S.C Class XII, B.I.E of A.P. Govt. B.Tech. (or) B.S. Mechanical Engg. Institution St. Pauls High School, Hyderabad FIITJEE Junior College ,Hyderabad VIT University, Vellore Performance 88.33% 91.5% 7.95/10 (Overall) 8.5/10 (8th Semester)

PROJECTS: 1) To improve Dead-Reckoning in 4 Wheeled Active Suspension Rover Using Caster Wheel Sensing.(Ongoing) Guide: Dr. Madhav Krishna, Assc.Professor,Robotics Research Centre , IIIT-Hyderabad 2) Convergence Study in High Order Nonlinear BVPs using Haar Wavelets (Ongoing) Guide: Dr. A.S.V.Ravikanth, Asst.Professor, School of Advanced Studies, VITU 3) Low Cost Traffic Speed Violation Detector: In India 13 people die every hour due to road accidents majorly caused by over speeding (Acc. to a WHO report). Phase 1-Speed Detection (July 08-October08): A Simple Contraption consisting of a Speed gun, Camera and a Microprocessor. An ATMEGA 16 was programmed for to detect over speeding and trigger the camera. Guide: Dr. P. Vivekananda Shanmuganathan, Division Leader-Mechatronics, VITU Cost: Rs.21000/ $460(Approx.) Finished first in Golden Design Challenge an industry defined problem challenge held during SHAASTRA 08 at IIT Chennai. (Media Coverage: Simple Innovations Garner Top Honours) Phase 2(August09-October09): A full fledged Vision system using an industry grade high speed camera and a DSP Board (NI CVS-1454) was developed. It was programmed using Lab View 8.6. Brief Algorithm: Acquisition-> Determining ROI->Image Calibration (Pixel to real world Coordinates- Overcoming perspective distortion) -> Edges Overlay->Relative Displacement of Target along an edge in successive frames->Speed Measurement->Violation Detection>Image Capture-> Speed Value Overlay Guide: Dr. Z.C.Alex, Director, School of Electronics Engineering, VITU

Cost: Rs. 300000/$6600 Finished second at the NI-Yantra 2009 (conducted by National Instruments, India) Phase 3(Jan10-June10): (IIEC 2010) A Fully functional embedded system was developed using Intel Atom Based Board, 10 Touch Module (for I/O), High Speed Camera. The same Algorithm was retained and an executable was created and installed on a Windows Embedded XP OS. Guides: Dr. Z.C.Alex , Director, School of Electronics Engineering ,VITU Mr. Laxmi Narasimhan R., Senior Application Developer, Intel Technology India Ltd Cost: Rs.75000/$1650 Finished first at the INTEL INDIA EMBEDDED CHALLENGE 2010 4) Digital Kite Anemometry ( December 09-March10) : To study the Convective Boundary layer Profile along the coastline in Pondicherry, India an economic low cost digital anemometer was developed using an AVR Butterfly Datalogger. Using an on board temperature sensor, It was programmed to note temperature values across different height in its flight. The Data was imported into Mathematica and interpolated using cubic splines to obtain the most accurate profile for further analysis. Guide: Dr.Satyajit Ghosh, Senior Professor, VITU Cost: Rs.1200/$ 26 5) A Multipurpose Solar Thermal Unit for Power Generation and Water Heating (Nov 08-Feb09): A 10kW solar thermal power plant was developed from scratch using organic rankine cycle (the working fluid being R123), screw expander and a scroll compressor.Solar heat was obtained through a series of flat plate collector of net area 54m 2.The waste heat was recovered to heat water. A plate heat exchanger was designed to facilitate the same. This was designed to serve as a backup generator cum hot water geyser for an apartment housing 10 families of 4 members each. Cost: Rs.600,000/$13300(estimated) Payback Period: 6 years (estimated) Finished second in Industry Defined Problem competition conducted by IIT-Khraghpur and GE.

SKILLS: Packages DBMS Web Design Programming OS

Solidworks2009, Mathematica 5, Lab View 8.6 , MSC.ADAMS 2005, MATLAB 7.1 SQL HTML C,C++ Windows 95/98/2000/XP/ VISTA

ACHIEVEMENTS: |Finished first at the INTEL INDIA EMBEDDED CHALLENGE 2010 for the Speed Detector Project. |Finished second at the NI-Yantra 2009 (being conducted by National Instruments, India) for making a Speed Detector Phase-II | Finished first in Golden Design Challenge, an Industry Defined Problem event held during SHAASTRA 08 at IIT Chennai for the Speed Detector Prototype (Phase I). | Finished second in Solar Strategies, a solar power plant design event sponsored by GE which was held during KSHITIJ 09 at IIT Kharagpur for the novel Solar Power Plant Design. | Finished second in Flipped Logic, an event wherein efficient and economical mechanical systems which operate on certain Boolean Expressions were to be designed and fabricated. It was conducted during Pragyan-08 at NIT, Trichy. PUBLICATIONS: A Novel and Economical Kite Anemometric Analysis for Velocity Measurements in a Convective Boundary Layer along a Reinforced coastline in Pondicherry, A.Siravuru, S.Ghosh et al, Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology Bangkok, Thailand, 23-25 April, 2010 Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Quadruped Robot, Dr.V.Shanmuganathan,A.Siravuru,et al, Proceedings of 2009 National Conference on Robotics and Innovative Manufacturing Processes,BHEL R&D, Hyderabad,2009. RELEVENT COURSES COVERED: | Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations, Differential and Difference Equations,, Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Methods, Probability and Statistics, Fundamentals of Electrical Engg., Electronics and Microcontrollers ,Computer Programming(C/C++,SQL and HTML),CAD and Machine Drawing(SolidWorks2008),Computer Aided Engineering Analysis(ANSYS),Computer Aided Manufacturing (SolidCAM 2006) | Elective Courses: Instrumentation and Control, Embedded Systems, Programmable Logic Controllers, Finite Element Analysis LEADERSHIP SKILLS: |Conducted a Hands on Robotics Workshop for School Children using LEGO Mindstorms in association with two exchange students from University of Applied Sciences, Dramstadt (April 08July 08) | Served as a Team Leader (2007-08) and Event Coordinator (2008-09) for Students for Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)-VITU Chapter. The chapter won the best student chapter award during both these years (2008-2009). Initiated and Supervised the VITSAT (Cube Sat Project), Student Sounding Rocket Project (Indias first), etc. | Conducted the Lunar Trek, a National Level moon rover competition. It was sponsored by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and The Moon Society, USA and was conducted during SEDS India National Conference SINC-09. | Cofounded Moon Society, India in the year 2010

PERSONAL INFORMATION: | Nationality: Indian | Languages: English, Hindi, Telugu | Hobbies: Quizzing, Star Gazing, Trekking, etc. | Extracurricular Achievements: I have a distinction of being the first Indian to be interviewed on a popular radio show,The Space Show, hosted by Dr.David Livingston (http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=1136) 3rd in Business Quiz at IIT Kharagpur during Kshitj-08