Product Analytics and Modelling Lab (PAM Lab)
Product Analytic and Modelling Laboratory (PAM Lab) is a design and development oriented facility in the School of Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Kharagpur. Technology based product design and development is central to innovation and engineering entrepreneurship and performance in this function provides competitive edge to any manufacturing business organization. Forward engineering has been the conventionally used in design, but simultaneously reverse engineering in recent time has occupied a prominent position and has drawn the attention of researchers as well as practitioners and entrepreneurs. It is increasingly being realized by the product developers that re-engineering through the process of feature based reverse engineering is a very effective method for product redesign.
This Lab supports product development (PD) efforts by students PD projects, research scholars, the technology business incubatees, entrepreneurs, and start-ups as well as established industries to create 3D models from physical parts and products.
Currently there are five research scholars working in this lab. Using the CAD/CAE and supported with statistical software, work on design optimization of gearbox-product has been undertaken and the methodologies developed have been reported in the reputed journal and conference.
Product prototypes are being developed by the students (Dual Degree M.Tech.) of the School using the facilities in this lab. Smart switch, for energy saving, has been prototyped here, by the student-start up (Alive Home Technologies) and the product-based business plan got selected for the final round presentation for RICE B-Plan Competition 2017, competing globally.
The Experiments in the lab are also video graphed for demonstration in class lecture.
Innovation Lab
This is where innovations are born. The innovation lab at RMSoEE aims to produce entrepreneurially oriented competent individuals. Each student of RMSoEE is attached to an innovation laboratory during their learning journey at IIT.
The Innovation Lab facilities include:
Analytics Lab
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein
The Analytics Lab at RMSoEE provides a unique meeting point for engineers, social scientists, and data scientists. It also provides hands-on training to students, entrepreneurs, and innovators on application of various analytical tools and techniques for business decision-making. The Lab mainly houses necessary hardware platforms and software tools for two domains of research in data analytics:
- Healthcare Data Analytics
- Computer Vision
In the Computer Vision domain, we are looking at applications involving multiple robots to use visual cues for localization & mapping applications. In remote operations, where there is constraint on the use of sophisticated sensors to collect data, visual data plays a major role. For example, in places where GPS is not available and hence global localization is not possible, we try to localize each robot relative to surrounding landmarks & other robot’s perspective. One such very particular application is planetary rovers exploring the planet surface. For this, we are developing algorithms and models based on secondary datasets available from previous rover missions. We are using applications like Gazebo, ROS, Blender etc. for simulation of environment and testing of algorithms
Energy lab
The Energy Lab at the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, is built to focus on creative answers to today’s energy challenges. From fundamental science and energy analysis to validating new products for the commercial market, the lab would help in developing renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and practices, advances related to science and engineering, smart grid and transfer of knowledge and innovations to address the nation’s energy and environmental goals.
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Bio-Lab
Bio-Lab is involved in development of Nutraceutical and Cosmeceuticals products and processing of Non-edible oil seeds for production of bio Diesel, Bio-lubricants and Oleo chemicals. So far pH meter, Microtome, Barometer Hygrometer Thermometer, BOD Incubator, Hot Air Oven, Water bath, Extractor has been procured in this Lab for doing the above research Activities.