Major Activities Undertaken in the year 2018-2019

• Actively Participated in Boeing National Level Aero modeling competition in Mumbai and Chennai.
• Participated in SAE India workshop in Chennai.
• Participated in various Aero modeling competitions conducted by regional colleges like Manipal University, Shree Devi Institute etc.
• The few Government Funded projects undergoing development are:

         Unmanned Aerial crop Health Monitoring System (Funded by NAIN).

         Fixed Wing Aerial Mapper with onboard RTK (Funded by NAIN).

         Drone solutions for Agricultural Crop yield System. (Funded by NAIN).

Avionics

Electronic Speed Controller (ESC).

Wireless Battery Charging.

Aeronautics

Fixed UAV configuration for high lift and high payload carry.

Stable airplane design and configuration.

Robotics

Retractable landing gears for mid and low wing configuration and fabrication technique using gravity feed hot wire.

Laser cutting research.

thrust weight rig .

Internet Vision Technology

Arduino based Servo Checker.

Home automation using Bluetooth module.

Bar code sign board.

Controlled scrolling board.

Major Activities during 2012-18

• Within NMAMIT

Organizing Workshops on Basic Aero modeling, Building of Remote Controlled (R. C) Aircrafts, Conducting Aero Exhibitions and Air shows, Conducting Star Gazing programmes, Conducting R. C Aircraft flying competitions (Aeromania), Assisting student projects in the areas of R. C Aircrafts and drones, Presentation of technical papers related to the projects undertaken with the assistance of aero club.

• Outside NMAMIT

Participation in national and local R. C. Aircraft flying completions (such as Boeing IIT national aero modeling competition)

Major sponsors and funding for activities and projects

• NMAMIT, Nitte : Rs 50,000 annually
• ICT Skill Development of Society (ICTSDS) : Rs 3,00,000
• Syndicate Bank, Nitte : Rs 25,000
• Mr. Ramananda Prabhu, Bangalore : Rs 25,000
• Mr. Divin Bharadwaj and Mr. M. M. Bhat : Rs. 10,000 each
• India Hobby center, Kolkata

Net worth (approximate value) of components inventory in aero club : Rs. 1,50,000

Major student projects undertaken

• Design and fabrication of Hexarotor (2013-14)
• Automated Stabilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2015-16) –
• Mini project
• GPS Automated Quadcopter with Facial Recognition Camera (2015-16)
• Unmanned aerial navigator, terrestrial investigator and surveillance (2016-17)
• Solar powered radio controlled plane (2016- 17)

High altitude aeronautical platform station (ICTSDS funded, ongoing)

Major Achievements

Karthik B Rao, Rathan Prabhu, and Prabhat Kumar Pathak of final year Mechanical Engineering, and members of core committee, Aero Club, NMAMIT, Nitte participated in the prestigious Boeing IIT National Aeromodelling Competition held in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur on 25 an 26 March 2017. Mr. Karthik B Rao, secured 2nd position in Remote Control (RC) aircraft Competition and qualified into finals as one among top 12 best pilots in the entire nation. With this Mr. Karthik B Rao and his team has qualified for the finals to be held in IIT Delhi on 20th April 2017.

Most of the teams that have participated in prestigious national aeromodeling competitions held at IIT, Chennai, IIT Mumbai and IIT Kharagpur achieved places within top 30

Gautham D. Naik and his team won 2nd prize for their paper on UMANTIS during IENITTE paper presentation competition in March 2017 at NMAMIT, Nitte.

Shreesha, Harshitha, Keerthi under the captaincy of Karthik B Rao secured 2nd Place And Deeksha, Nikitha, Vivek under captaincy of Prabhat Kumar Pathak secured 3rd place in AIR-PURSUIT ( RC aeromodelling and Flying competition), held at Sri Devi Institute of Technology, Mangalore on 22nd and 23rd of February 2017.

Shreesha and Harshitha won 2nd place in a technical paper presentation organised by Aeronautical department, Sri Devi Institute of Technology,Mangalore on 22nd and 23rd of February 2017.

Mr. Divin Bharadwaj won 2nd place in technical paper presentation organised during Technidarshan 2014, organized at NMAMIT, Nitte.