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National Focus: The Minister inaugurates the TiHAN Testbed for Autonomous Navigation at IIT Hyderabad

The union Minister of State (Independent) Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Payment) Earth Science; MoS PMO, Employees, Public Complaints, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh today unveiled the first of its kind, “Autonomous Navigation” for state-of-the-art aircraft and vacant vehicles at IIT Hyderabad Campus. The Minister also consulted with Startups for the development of vacant ground vehicles such as driver-driven vehicles, slow-moving bicycles, etc., and vacant aerial vehicles including drones of various types and sizes. Dr. Jitendra Singh listened to the youth experience of Startups, who participated in the navigation systems of unmanned vehicles and suggested that they should be linked to industry to continue their livelihood and growth.

The Minister also thanked IIT Hyderabad for launching the new MTech Post-Graduation courses on “Smart Mobility”, the first of its kind in India. He said it was gratifying to know that the Department of Science and Technology was involved in promoting this visionary program for the future in India, which will be of benefit to the world in the years to come. The Minister said, the vision of TiHAN-IITH, is to become a global player in the next generation of smart motion technology and the Department of Science and Technology has come forward to support this initiative, which will be a trendsetter for others.

Dr. Jitendra Singh informed that limited testing facilities or reasons for the evidence are available worldwide to investigate the operation of unmanned vehicles connected to a controlled environment by mimicking the various possible scenarios in real-time traffic, from the most common to the worst. A few examples include Millbrook Proving Grounds in the UK, M-City in the USA, CETRAN in Singapore, K-City in South Korea, JARI in Japan, etc. In India, there is currently no such test site to test the performance of private vehicles. , and that is why the need for this TiHANTestbed, the Minister added.

Dr. Jitendra Singh said, India’s transportation industry is one of the largest markets in the world and TiHAN – IITH will be the source of the future technology production of private cars. He added that the TiHAN-IITH testbed on Autonomous Navigations (Aerial & Terrestrial) will allow us to test the next-generation automatic navigation technology accurately and allow rapid technological development and global market access.

DrJitendra Singh emphasized that the nation has made great strides in technology under the leadership of our visionary Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has embarked on a number of initiatives to make India a future leader and technology destination. One of these initiatives is the establishment of 25 technology development centers by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) nationwide under the National Computer Science Software System (NM-ICPS).The minister said, in particular, TiHAN is developing and implementing a real-time CPS system that uses private UAVs and sub-vehicles in a wide range of nationally important applications over the next decade. That said, the test bed incorporates simulation platforms that allow for non-destructive testing of algorithms and prototypes.

Also, a few real-world scenarios can be modeled on the test bed. In global systems, a few examples of these scenarios are Smart Cities, Signalized Intersections, Autonomous Vehicle Interactions with cyclists and pedestrians, Wireless network between cars and sidewalk units, etc. The autonomous test bed also provides sign boards, pedestrians, transit areas, and cyclists to explore all real world situations.

Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar has announced that the test site includes an airport, soft landing area, drones hangar, Ground control station (GCS), Performance Testing Station. Payloads performance tests such as LiDAR, radar, camera, etc., are tested. Control the transition between manual and independent operation, as well as non-motor vehicle acceptance courses. The standard operating procedures for unmanned vehicles, will greatly assist in the formulation of the rules and operating policies of the various applications in the Indian state.

Under this national policy, IIT Hyderabad was awarded the Technology Innovation Hub in the technical area of ​​‘Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition Systems (UAVs, ROVs. Etc.)’. The NMICPS Technology Innovation Hub at the Autonomous Navigation Foundation (TiHAN) is a multidisciplinary program, including researchers from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Design, Liberal Arts and Entrepreneurship at IIT Hyderabad. TiHAN is known as the Organization for Scientific and Industrial Research (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

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