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NITK Surathkal Layouts USV and names it Later Overdue prof

MANGALURU: Just as a fitting tribute to a college member, that died because of Covid-19 per month past, NITK Surathkal has committed an indigenously developed unmanned surface vehicle (USV) later Prof Paresh Chandra Deka.
Deka worked at the water sources and ocean technologies (WR and also OE) division and has been a distinguished researcher in the area of bathymetry, he carried out using traditional techniques through recent years.
Congratulations!You have cast your voteLogin to see resultUSV- Paresh was created from both the WR and OE division, together with the Centre for System Design (CSD), NITK Surathkal, lately.
A similar USV prices around Rs 4 crore, however, the magician utilizing open source tools, has created it to get Rs 15 lakh.
The group which worked on the job comprised Pruthviraj U, assistant professor, K V Gangadharan, manager, CSD, Rakshith Kotian, Steevan Loyd and Rajath C Kotekar, junior research fellow, CSD.
Pruthviraj U, assistant professor, WR and OE, stated Deka was a distinguished researcher in the area of bathymetry, also utilized traditional methods.
Prof Deka served globally with his best tenure being NITK, in which before his premature death, he taught postgraduate students, directed numerous research scholars and has recently authored several textbooks, even while focusing on cutting-edge study within his area of hydrology, GIS mappingand machine learning software and many others.
“The study work base set by Prof Deka is going to be continued by utilizing USV Paresh.
Therefore we’ve committed this USV following him,” explained Pruthviraj.
Prof Deka also helped the coastal regions of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in sand block allocation functions.
How it works
The USV constructed to a kayak is tracked and controlled through an in-house designed floor channel program, which processes information and creates results immediately in the website.
USV Paresh’s aim is to decrease the demand for an individual operator.
Pruthviraj stated it may be utilized to maneuver in waterbodies.
The USV has some single-beam echo-sounder for quantifying thickness in shallow water.
The present method measures distances around 75m, also may be substituted using multi-beam sonar for increased thickness.
It’s powered with a strong 400W electric engine using a battery backup of half an hour.
Outriggers are mounted on each side, which stabilises the boat in rough seas.
The USV includes a variety of 40km in total control, and may be controlled or driven .
Paresh comes with interchangeable payloads such as state-of- the-art String GPS to get centimetre-level place precision, LiDAR components to incorporate bathymetry together with topography, water quality tracking method,bathymetric soil auger and sample selection.

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