25 Jul 2018
Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) initially started as a Project Laboratory - Advanced Systems Integration and Evaluation Organization (ASIEO), which was established in 1986 in Bangalore to pursue the goal of enhancing the operational capabilities of Indian Air Force through modern technologies. Over the last decade, DARE has made rapid progress in the areas of Airborne Electronic Warfare, Airborne Processors and Testing & Evaluation of Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. It has implemented concepts in concurrent engineering in partnership with the Industry in order to achieve shorter design to induction time frames and seamless transfer of technology. DARE has two major wings - the Electronic Warfare (EW) wing and the Mission Avionics Wing (MAW).
To conduct Research and Development in avionics technologies in order to equip Indian Armed Forces with Mission-effective aeronautical systems enhanced by-
(a) Current and Futuristic airborne EW systems
(b) State of art Mission Avionics
The team reachedDARE (DRDO Complex), CV Raman Nagar, Bengaluru around2 PM.After finishing all the security formalities, we met MrAP Regu Kumar, Associate Director, DARE and discussed about the current work carried out in DARE and how it would be helpful for our academics point of view(Internship,Projects, University/industry collaboration).DARE is ready to offer the internship programmes for PG/UG students based on an interview process.
Group Captain R Reji Peter (IAF nodal officer) took the team around to various laboratories and research wing in the Avionics division with an aim to give an insight into the work being carried out in the lab.He also shared his experience from start of this lab and the progress happened over the years till date. Our faculties interacted with him and gained knowledge/awareness. The contribution of DARE to enhance the capabilities of Indian Air Force in terms of avionics and EW capabilities were briefly presented during course of discussion and visit to the various facilities.
Laboratories Visited:
1) Su-30 MKI DP Rig Cock pit-
-8 Core MIPS Processor module,1553B mezzanine card,RTOS (Vxworks),Processors,FPGA
2) Project-AMOGH
Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)-Line Replaceable Units (LRUs)
The EW suites developed in DARE have RWR, internal jammer and podded jammer. ATE is designed to test all line replaceable units (LRUs) and associated PCBs. It consists of GPIB-based test instruments, ISA bus-based PC add-on measurement cards and custom interface units. Desktop computer serves as the ATE controller. The controller communicates with test instruments via GPIB interface bus and with LRUs via RS-232 and RS-422 serial lines.
The test software is windows-based with excellent graphical user interface. The software is enabled, for conducting the functional tests on LRUs and PCBs, through password protection and provides following additional facilities:
Addition of new tests or replacement of obsolete test equipments can be done with minimum changes in the software core. The instrument driver interfaces and functional tests are designed as DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) to provide maximum flexibility in tester maintenance. The ATE is operational at user's site for performance evaluation.
3) Vetrivale Display Processor Integration Rig -
DARIN III-Mission Computer for Jaguar
4) FADEC Lane-A
On behalf of School of ECE we would like to thank Honorable Chancellor Dr.P. Shyama Raju, Vice Chancellor Dr.S.Y. Kulkarni, and Registrar Dr. M. Dhanamjaya for their continuous support for knowledge enhancement programmes for faculty member and students. We also take this opportunity to thank our Director School of ECE Dr. R C Biradar for initiating this project. We also thank Mr. G. Lakshman DGM (Admin) for providing transportation facility.
Faculty members on Visit:
