S.No.

 

Title

PIs list (with

 PI being first)

Sponsor

Amount

Duration

Significant

Outcome

(if any)

37

Public Engagement on Health Through Assistive Technologies for Women (Sub Project under RP03458)

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

22.70 Lakhs

Mar 2018 – Aug 2019

Study of Mobility and other Assistive Devices by Women and Children

36

Collaboration with Indiana University in Tactile Graphics

 

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

Indiana University, USA

11.00 Lakhs

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019

Comparative study between NAB and IAB, Indianapolis

35

Study and Analysis of Available Sign Languages App

M Balakrishnan

Prem Kalra

 

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment

1.92 Lakhs

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

 

34

On Board Phase 2: Design, Implementation and Testing of Improved Version Based on Feedback from the Pilot Trial

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

Department of Science & Technology

46.12 Lakhs

Jan 2017 – Oct 2018

Pilot testing in Mumbai and Delhi and Technology Transfer

33

Developing a Solution for Providing Assistance for Creation of Accessible Public Documents for Visually Impaired

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment

11.50 Lakhs

May 2016 – Apr 2017

Resulted in a major IMPRINT as well as SPARC project

32

ICT Centre of Excellence on Tactile Graphics

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

MEITY, Govt of India

221.00 Lakhs

Dec 2014 – Aug 2018

Know-how transferred and non-profit Raised Lines Foundation Incubated in Aug 2018

31

Affordable Refreshable Braille Displays Based on Shape Memory Actuation

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

WELLCOME TRUST, UK

718.15 Lakhs

Apr 2014 – May 2019

DotBook – 20 Cell and 40 Cell Devices launched

30

Smart Cane- Development Course for National and International dissemination

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

WELLCOME TRUST, UK

75.00 Lakhs

Apr 2014 – Oct 2017

Successfully disseminated in India and abroad

29

Development of Open source screen reading software NVDA and enhancement with Indian Languages

M Balakrishnan

Centre of Internet & Society

30.40 Lakhs

Feb 2013 – Mar 2017

Many contributions to NVDA including a paper in CSUN 2018

28

INALSI: Indoor Navigarion with Access to Location Specific Information

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

 

Samsung, India

25.00 Lakhs

Nov 2013 – June 2015

Tested on Bharti 3rd and 4th Floor

27

Development of a Low-cost Electronic Braille Display for the Visually Impaired

PVM Rao

M Balakrishnan

 

DST - TIDE, Govt of India

38.00 Lakhs

Sep 2013 – Mar. 2016

Background for the Translational Research project from Wellcome Trust Project

26

OnBoard: Assistive Device for Public Bus Access for the Visually Impaired

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

 

DST - TIDE, Govt of India

35.00 Lakhs

Sep. 2013 – June 2015

Trials on 25 buses with BEST, Mumbai

Technology Transfer

25

ePSD: Electronic Personal Safety Device

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

 

DEITY, Govt. of India

48.00 Lakhs

Nov. 2013 –

Mar 2015

 

24

Development of Smart Cane - An Affordable knee-above obstacle detection and warning system for the visually impaired

M Balakrishnan

PVM Rao

Kolin Paul

(Dipendra Manocha – Saksham

Sashi Kumar –

Phoenix Medical)

WELLCOME TRUST, UK

137  Lakhs

(approx.)

(Total 291 Lakhs)

Dec. 2010 –

Apr. 2014

 Partners:

Phoenix Medical Systems +

Saksham Trust

 

Affordable SmartCane released (31st March 2014)

23

Characterization of Multi-core Processors for Power-Estimation at System-Level (CoMPESys).

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

Smruti Sarangi

 

DST-DFG

15.5 Lakhs

Oct 2010 – Oct 2013

Partner:

Prf. Wolfgang Nebel,

Oldenburg Univ.

22

Virtual FPGA and Digital Design lab

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

MHRD

39.0 Lakhs

April 2009- March 2014

 

21

A Framework for CoDesign Solutions for High Performance Scientific Applications

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

EDAS

33.0 Lakhs

Sep 2007 –

Aug 2010

 

20

Fast Data Dump for Cache Debug

Preeti Panda

M Balakrishnan

 

INTEL

7.5 Lakhs

Sep. 2005 – Aug. 2008

Anant Vishnoi’s PhD support

19

FPGA based Digital Processor for Shark Hartmann Wavefront Processing

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

IRDE, DRDO

35.0 Lakhs

Sep. 2005 – Mar. 2008

Transferred the FPGA accelerator design to IRDE

18

Smart Cane Project

M Balakrishnan

Kolin Paul

Media Lab Asia

7.0   Lakhs

Oct. 2006 – Dec. 2007

Groundwork for the major project from WELLCOME TRUST

17

Vehicle Underside Scanner and Vehicle Authorization System

Anshul Kumar

M Balakrishnan

Subhashis Banerjee

Prem Kalra

Sudipto Mukherjee

Anup Chawla

DIT, Govt of India

132.0 Lakhs

June 2003 – Mar. 2006

Resulted in technology development and transfer

Know-how generated has indirectly created a company named ‘Kritikal SecureScan

16

Heterogeneous Multiprocessor SoC Design Methodology

Anshul Kumar

M Balakrishnan

Preeti Panda

Kolin Paul

NRB

54.0 Lakhs

Apr 2002 –

Dec. 2006

Core of embedded research group activities –

numerous projects and papers

15

Application Specific DSP Processor Design

M Balakrishnan

 

DST-DAAD

3.0 Lakhs + Visits

May 2000 – April 2003

Visits of Rajeswari and Manoj to Dortmund Uni

Collaboration resulted in the most cited paper from Rajeswari

14

Methodology for Heterogeneous Implementation of real-Time Systems for Vision and Image Processing

M Balakrishnan

Anshul Kumar

Subhashis Banerjee

Sanjiv Kapoor

NRB

24.0 Lakhs

May 1998 – June 2002

Core of embedded research group activities – numerous projects and papers

13

Development of High Performance Architecture based on FPGAs

Anshul Kumar

Shashi Kumar

M Balakrishnan

 

Anurag, DRDO

14.0 Lakhs

Aug. 1996 – Jan 1999

 

12

Development of CAD Tools for Synthesis of Circuits from VHDL

M Balakrishnan

Anshul Kumar

Shashi Kumar

Anurag, DRDO

10.3 Lakhs

Aug. 1996 – Jan 1999

 

11

IDEAL Language and Tools

IDEAS – Phase II

Anshul Kumar

Shashi Kumar

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

34.0 Lakhs

1991 - 1995

Joint project with SCL Chandigarh and IIT Bombay

10

Linear Algebraic Systolic Processor on a C-DAC Machine

B B Madan

M. Balakrishnan

C- DAC

1.1 Lakhs + Hardware

1990 - 1993

 

9

IDEAL Language and Tools

IDEAS – Phase I

Anshul Kumar

Shashi Kumar

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

9.02 Lakhs

1987 - 1991

Joint project with SCL Chandigarh and IIT Bombay

8

Development of a Real-time High Speed Convolver Correlator

R C Agrawal

B B Madan

M Balakrishnan

Min of defence

11.2 Lakhs

1982-1986

 

7

Training & Research in Under Water Electronics - Phase II

 S. Prasad

B. Bhat

A.L. Vyas

R. Bahl

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

47.36 Lakhs

1982 - 1990

 

6

High Resolution Sector Scanning Sonar

B.B. Madan

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

10.58 Lakhs

1982-1986

 

5

Design & Development of a Digital Omni-Directional Receiver

R. Bahl

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

6.99 Lakhs

1979 - 1985

 

4

Universal Sonar Signal Processor

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

1.90 Lakhs

1979 - 1981

 

3

Training & Research in Under Water Electronics - Phase I

P.V. Indiresan

S. Prasad

B. Bhat

A.L. Vyas

R. Bahl

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

36.8 Lakhs

1977 - 1982

 

2

Design & Development of an Own Doppler Tracking Low Noise Receiver

P.V. Indiresan

S. Prasad

 A.L. Vyas

R. Bahl

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

2.5   Lakhs

1977 - 1980

 

1

Development pf Fast Fourier Transform Processor

P.V. Indiresan

S Prasad

B B Madan

R Bahl

A L Vyas

M. Balakrishnan

DoE

128.0 Lakhs

1971 - 1979