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Greetings to you
and welcome to the new tidings in the year 2005. It is "Carpe diem",
a Roman poet did say. It’s a clarion call to “Seize the
day”. Old hurts, lost causes, -throw them, away, New hopes, fresh
dreams – bring into play MadrasChapter,Dr.G.V.Rao,Chairperson,IEEE-PES
Madras Chapter, Mr.K.Ramanathan,Secretary IEEE Madras Section. The year
2004 has really been a very significant year, for all of us in IEEE
Madras Section. Since we had carried out 18 technical, educational and
societal meetings, including two visits by the Distinguished Lecturers,
besides one International conference, one Internet conferencing with
egion 10 Director, Dr. Jung Seo and 3 Gold affinity group meetings,
10 workshops in colleges, 16 inaugurations and reactivation of student
Branches, 12 IEEE-PES meetings / seminars etc. 6 Joint meetings with
sister institutions Our Golden handshake with SAE,India, Southern Region
and addition of 16 new student Branches etc. all these activities, done
with your co-operation and support, I can say, with a sense of satisfaction,
the highest sofar, in our section. FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK The student branch of Madras section has been very active and once again we are very proud to showcase their activities in our newsletter. National Conferences and Seminars were conducted at various colleges on behalf of the student branch. A technical lecture on “History of Electricity –Development of Electric Motors” was given on 19th March by Dr. M. Ramamoorthy at Chennai. You can find an abstract of his lecture in this issue. There is an interesting article on an Expert Systembased Screener and an Intelligent Gaming System forAutism from Sri Sai Ram Engineering College. It showshow much technology could be used to overcome the barriers faced by Autistic community. There is another article on Automatic Military Tank from Siva Subramaniya Nadar College of Engineering. I am sure that you would find these articles very interesting and useful. In addition, we have all the usual features on the Section activities of the past month and the wonderful photographs. Do let us know your feedback and keep sending your contributions to IEEE_news@yahoo.com |
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IEEE MADRAS SECTION – STUDENT BRANCH ACTIVITIES: INAUGURATION VIS & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF VES On invitation, Mr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, Section Chair, attened the inaugural function of the Vellamal International School, at Panchetti, near Chennai, on 16th March’05 and conveyed greetings & felicitations, on behalf of IEEE, personally to its founder chairman, Shri M.V.Muthuramalingam. The school is spread over 70 acres of the project cost is over 70 crores, with Amphitheater, Yoga Meditation / Arts centre, AC classrooms, swimming pool, sports Gallery, Gym, shooting range, Golf, Horseriding, Dance Music, Public speaking activities, Vellamal Engg. College, located at Ambattur – Redhills Road, has a Student branch, which is very active, under the able leadership of its Branch counselor, Prof. Sheila haran & guidance & support by the management. This college is one among he top five in ranking among the 225 Engineering Colleges in T.N., affiliated to Anna University. IEEE Madras Section has been requested to be Co-sponsors for their Wireless Network or Mobile computing, to be held during December’05. This shall have the widest reach, spreading awareness and enhancing the image of IEEE, in our student community and local public.
AKCE Section Chair inaugurated “VSAG-2005” National Seminar on Power Quality, and delivered the keynote address, on “Challenges in meeting the demand for quality in power supply” on 18th March 05” at Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering at Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil (near Virudhunagar). The salient features of IEEE and its membership advantages were also discussed, which was enthusiastically received by the students. Dr. Chennakesava, former Director – General incharge, CPRI, Bangalore, Dr. Sundara Srinivasan, former CE/TNEB, Dr. D. Devaraja HOD, EEE Dept. participated. The paper presentations on Harmonic Analysis, integrated approach to online systemwide power quality monitoring, voltage and reactive power control etc were interesting and useful.
The National conference on Bio-Signal, communicationand Net-working, held at the SSN College of Engineering,\On 19th and 20th March'05, was a grand event, with eminent Padmashri Prof. A Jhun Jhunwala, from IIT Madras, delivering the Keynote address on the inaugural day. Section Chair was the Chief Guest at the Valedictory function on 20th March, in which IEEE membership advantages were in focus and the students & faculty showed a lot of interest, Dr. S. Salivahanam, Principal and former IEEE Madras Section Student Activities chairperson, promised to take concerted efforts to increase the membership, in the coming months. |
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The technical lecture on “History of Electricity – Development of Electric Motors” was held at Hotel Palmgrove, on 19th March 05 and the guest speaker, Dr. M. Ramamoorthy, Director, Electrical Research and Development Association, Vadodara, Gujarat State, Fellow of IEEE, spoke eloquently. It was delightful and interesting. The photographs of Michael Farady, Thomas Alva Edison, Coulomb and other inventors, and the data, exhibited, are of enduring nature. The Indraprastha Hall was jam-packed with more than 85 attendees. IEEE Power Engineering
Society, IA & EM Society and IIT Madras joined hands with IEEE Madras
Section to hear Deepak Divan,Professor, Fellow of IEEE & Director,
Intelligent Power Infrastructure consortium Georgia Institute of Technology-Atlanta,
who was the visiting PES distinguished Lecturer on “Opportunities
for improving the quality and Reliability of Electric Power”.
The meeting was held at IC & SR Auditorium, IIT Madras on 22nd March’05.
Dr. G.V. Rao, PES Chair Dr. Srinivasan, HOD, EE Dept, IIT Madras, Dr.
Krishna Vasudevan, Dr. Shanthi Swarup and faculty and student members
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ITS FIRST EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF 2005 ON 29th March 2005 at Traders Hotel, Singapore, IEEE Madras Section Chair, presented brief details of the INDICON 2005, to be organized by the Section, Jointly with IEEE India Council, from Dec. 11 to 13, 2005, at IIT Madras. |
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This is an Annual convention and conference of the India Council, held every year at different locations, in India and the INDICON – 2004 was held at IIT Kharagpur. The conference organized in co-ordination with Anna University & IIT Madras will provide a forum for scientists, educators and practicing engineers to meet and exchange ideas and explore new avenues of research and co-operation. Apart from presentation of contributed papers, peer reviewed by an international panel of reviewers, tutorials, exhibitions and invited talks by pioneers in the field are scheduled. The conference will focus on “Emerging trends in Electrical, electronics and information Technologies”. We welcome original contributions besides sponsorships for exhibition and related activities. We solicit your whole-hearted co-operation, good will support, to make INDICON 2005, a world class technical conference. |
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Section Chair Meeting at Singapore on 30th and 31st March '05, on the invitation of Prof. Seichi Takeuchi, Region10 Director. The focus on volunteerism, membership development and advancement, student activities electronic communications, publication services and products, budget, TENCON 2005. hosted by Victorian Section, 2006. Hong Kong Section, 2007 Taipei / Taivan Section, 2008 – Hyderabad Section and 2009 Singapore Section and presentation of Awards and Anniversary banners. 2005 IEEE President Cleon Anderson recalled his visit to various sections in India and was appreciative of the warmth and affection shown by members including student members of good work being done in the sections. |
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SYSTEM BASED SCREENER AND AN INTELLIGENT GAMING SYSTEM FOR SEMANTIC PRAGMATIC
DISORDER-AUTISM V. SAMPATH KUMAR*&V. MALARVIZHI Sri Sai Ram Engineering College (sampa7k@yahoo.com) * Corresponding author |
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The main idea behind this research work is to contribute our service to the autistic society and helping them with the little knowledge we have The Frame Work The framework of the proposed system shown below mainly comprises of 3 components: an expert system based screener, an intelligent gaming model & a report generator system. This model mainly focuses on social developmental disorder The first step involved in the evaluation procedure is to subject the participants to screening process. Later on valuable training is imparted to the patients using the intelligent game- agent model to which a neural net and TDagent are attached. Once the valuable training is imparted, assessment is carried on . If the results of the assessment are not satisfactory then the whole procedure is repeated until a high level of improvement is attained. The screener developed which is based on the principle of Expert system is found to be a simple and effective method of analyzing the development of a child and help the parents in identification of any developmental or medical disorder at the earliest, where by appropriate medical treatment can be instituted to improve the prognosis of the child’s condition. The screener system developed helps in identification of nervous problem, social developmental disorder and syndrome. This screener can also be used to allay the fears of parents and also can reduce the burden of the Medical team caring for such Special Children. It can also improve Parent participation in planning therapies and implementation of the same. The Intelligent Gaming System for People with Autism Many people have noted the value of computers, both therapeutically and educationally, to train the people with autistic spectrum disorders. In our intelligent gaming system, we have an idea to bring the faces of the autistic child’s family members and peer groups, so the autistic child can make an attempt to improve the eye contact & communication with at least known peoples, in a more frequent manner The intelligent gaming
agent, draws on the concepts of Neural networks, back propagation and
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Dr.Ramamoorty, dir@erda.org Invention of Electric motor is a milestone in the history of electricity and its practical applications. The first experiment demonstrating the principle of DC machine was made by Michel Faraday in the year 1821 before the Royal Society at London. It took 50 years to commercialize this idea and the first DC generating station at Pearl Street, New York was commissioned by Thomas Alwa Edison in 1882. Around that time parallel developments took place in the field of AC distribution with the invention of induction motor by Nikola Tesla in the year 1888. The first large-scale commercial AC distribution system was commissioned at Niagara Falls in 1896. Since that time the developments in power generation, transmission and distribution were phenomenal. Industrial utilization of electricity enormously increased. Induction motor became the workhouse of the industry. Many new control techniques were developed to improve the steady state and dynamic performance of motors. Solid State device became an integral part of motor controls. New type of motors e.g. Reluctance motor, Linear motor and PM motors were introduced. Variable speed AC motor drives have more or less replaced the conventional DC drives. Active research is going on in this field.
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