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About NAL
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), is India's second
largest aerospace firm after Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL). It was
established by the Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) at Delhi in 1959 and its headquarters was later
moved to Bangalore in 1960. The firm closely operates with
HAL, DRDO and ISRO and has the prime responsibility of
developing civilian aircraft in India.CSIR-NAL mandate is to develop
aerospace technologies with strong science content, design and build
small and medium-sized civil aircraft, and support all national
aerospace programmes.
NAL is a high technology oriented institution concentrating on
advanced topics in the aerospace and related disciplines. Originally
started as National Aeronautical Laboratory, it was renamed National
Aerospace Laboratories to reflect its major involvement in the Indian
space programme, its multidisciplinary activities and global
positioning. It is Indias only civilian aerospace laboratory with a high
level of competence and the expertise of its scientists is globally
acknowledged
Motivation
The motivation behind doing this research intern is applying the
theory learnt in classroom to practical use. During the 4 year course of
electronics we learnt many transformation techniques of signals to
simplify the process. So to find how it really simplifies the complex
processes was fascinating and amazing.
During lectures in classroom I was only able to see limited scope of
signal processing applications. I just knew about those applications
which were taught but I wanted to experience firsthand the practical
applications of signal processing in industrial area. Thats why I
applied in NAL, Bangalore to do a research intern in application of
signal processing and gain better insights of the topic.
Training Experience
I worked in the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a
constituent of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR).
I worked in a project on reflectometry which is a noninvasive
technique that allows the analysis of properties of a medium.
This technique is based on the reflection of waves at the
interface of interest. Waves propagate into a medium (according to
the laws of propagation into the medium) and when it encounters a
discontinuity (impedance break), part of its energy is reflected back to
injection point. The analysis of the reflected signal can infer
information about the system or the medium under consideration.
Many techniques are based on the principle of reflectometry and are
distinguished by the type of waves used and the analysis of the
reflected signal. Among all these techniques, we can classify the main
but not limited to:
1. Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
2. Frequency Domain Reflectometry (FDR)
3. Neutron Reflectometry
4. X-ray Reflectometry
5. Ultrasonic Reflectometry