Dr. Rajkumar S. Pant

Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering

 


 




 

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R&D Projects


2017- ongoing

Position Held: Principal Investigator

Project Title: Self-contained Re-located Tethered Aerostat System for Agricultural Applications(SeRTASAA)”

Main Sponsoring Agency:  Tata Centre for Technology & Design, IIT Bombay


2010- ongoing 

Position Held: Principal Investigator

Project Title: Upgradation of Lighter-Than-Air System Laboratory”

Main Sponsoring Agency:  Department of  Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, under Fund for Improvement  of S&T Infrastructure in Higher Educational Institutions (FIST)


2012- 2014 

Position Held: Principal Investigator

Project Title: Design and Flight Testing of an autonomous airship“

Main Sponsoring Agency: Systems and Systems Engineering Panel, Aeronautics R&D Board, India


 

2006- 2008 

Position Held: Co-Investigator

Project Title: "Long Distance Wireless Communication for Rural Connectivity, using tethered Aerostat"

Main Sponsoring Agency:  Ek-Dunia Grassroots Innovation Funding for technology (E-GIFT), Initiative of One World South Asia.

 

2004- 2006 

Position Held: Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Dynamic Neural Networks and its hardware implementation for control of an airship"

Main Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Human Resource Development under Thrust Areas in technology Scheme


 

2004- 2006 

Position Held: Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Shape Optimization of Aerostat Envelopes"

Main Sponsoring Agency: Aerial Delivery R&D Establishment, DRDO, Government of India 

 

1999-2004

Position Held: Principal Investigator

Project Title: "A Comparative Analysis of Software for Conceptual & Preliminary Design of Transport Aircraft" 

Project Description: Computational 

Main Sponsoring Agency: Aerodynamics Panel of the Aeronautics R&D Board, Government of India


 

1992-1993  

Position Held: Principal Investigator
Project Title: "Flow Visualization of a Powered Lift Aircraft Model" 

Main Sponsoring Agency: Aerodynamics Panel of the Aeronautics R&D Board, Government of India