IIT Roorkee and DRDO collaborate on research, development for indigenous defence equipment
India Today
In order to develop indigenous defence equipment, IIT Roorkee and DRDO are collaborating to develop joint technology.
A joint R&D activity between the Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL) Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITRoorkee) has resulted in developing indigenous radio frequency power amplifiers to meet the futuristic requirements of Programmable Radios being developed by DEAL, DRDO.
The research group led by Professor Karun Rawat at IIT Roorkee, and a group of Scientists and Engineers led by Pinaki Sen from DEAL, DRDO have designed these amplifiers to be simultaneously able to fulfill the high-efficiency requirements (for thermal management) and good linearity for signal fidelity.
The designs have been simultaneously optimised for size, weight and power (SWaP). These amplifier units have superior performance and beat many similar products from global manufacturers, achieving high efficiency and gain while simultaneously considering good harmonic and intermodulation suppression.
The lack of indigenous components poses a severe challenge to R&D organisations, such as in integrating the entire defense equipment into a given timeline of the armed forces.
The scientific rigor of an academic R&D has a high potential to bring innovative designs to bolster cutting-edge technology development. However, the challenge is to direct such scientific investigations to product-oriented exercises through collaborative efforts with R&D labs.
The improvement in efficiency will result in a significant amount of heat load reduction, which will facilitate easy integration in the Programmable Radio chassis in the required form factor.
The unit will be assembled with the indigenous radio units of DEAL and DRDO, and will be manufactured by private domestic partners for mass production.
