IEEE AP-S LECTURE BY DR. CHANDRAKANTA KUMAR ORGANIZED BY IEEE AP-S STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER, IIT KANPUR: CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIONS IN ANTENNAS FOR SPACECRAFTS AND RELATED GROUND STATIONS

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The main focus of this talk is to explore spacecraft and ground based antenna systems for the real time application. 


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  • ACES
  • IIT Kanpur
  • Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
  • India 208016
  • Building: Department of Electrical Engineering
  • Room Number: DA-229
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  • Co-sponsored by IEEE MTT-S UP Chapter of the IEEE UP Section

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Dr. Chandrakanta Kumar Dr. Chandrakanta Kumar of Scientist 'SG' U R Rao Satellite Centre, (formerly: ISRO Satellite Centre), Communication Systems Group, APSD, Bangalore

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Challenges and Innovations in Antennas for Spacecrafts and Related Ground Stations

Designing the antenna systems for any practical application is truly satisfying experience for any engineer in this field. Every design poses some challenges in terms of performance, complexity, cost, etc., and the designer is supposed to deal with it. The challenges in the space-borne systems has some additional aspects that are difficult to perceived without having first-hand experience. The space-borne systems are also expected to be efficient in terms of performance and physical parameters. The speaker intends to share his experience in addressing the challenges within the constraints and reaching an optimum, may not be the best, solution through innovations. Some specific examples of antennas with different gain (low, medium and high) are discussed. These include single elements, planer and spherical arrays with equal, unequal and phased excitations, unconventional reflector antennas and feeds. Ground station antennas as also integral part of a space program so some aspects of that also will be touch upon. 

Biography:

Chandrakanta Kumar was born in Shibpur, W.B., India. He received his M. Tech and PhD in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in the year 2001 and 2012 respectively. He has also completed Space Studies Program, from International Space University, Strasbourg, France, in 2013.

            He joined Communication Systems Group of ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India in 2001 as an engineer. He primarily designs and develops the antenna systems for the Indian space programme and related ground stations. He has 114 publications in national and international journals and conferences, including 31 in IEEE journals. He has supervised two Masters thesis and at present supervising three PhD students.

Dr. Kumar is an active volunteer of IEEE and at present serving the Execom of Bangalore Section. He is a recipient of ‘Young Scientist Award-2009’ from ISRO and ‘Hari Ramji Toshniwal Award-2018’ and ‘Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award-2011’ both from IETE, India. He is also a member of the team that received ‘Team Excellence Award-2008’ of ISRO for his design of Chandrayaan-1 antenna systems. He has also received six awards for his publications in the internationals conference held in India. He is a Fellow of IETE, India, Senior Member of IEEE, USA, and life member of Astronautical Society of India. He is also on the board of reviewers of journals like the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation etc.

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Address:U R Rao Satellite Centre, (formerly: ISRO Satellite Centre), Communication Systems Group, APSD, Bangalore, India