[Legacy Report] Technical Tour to Research Center Imaarat (RCI) organized by IEEE CAS/EDS chapter

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The IEEE CAS/EDS Chapter organized a tour to RCI labs of DRDO on 8th November 2012. The tour was conceptualized during the inaugural of CAS/EDS Chapter during which the director of RCI, Dr. G. Sateesh Reddy was invited to give a guest lecture. Dr. Sateesh Reddy facilitated the tour for 25 IEEE members to RCI.
A total of 58 members had applied to attend the tour out of which 25 were shortlisted, the team consisted of 4 industry professionals, 7 Faculty members and 14 students. The registration fee was Rs.200 per person. Mr. Mohammed Arifuddin Sohel, Treasurer, CAS/EDS chapter was the tour incharge. The tour started at 8.00AM from campus of MJCET at Banjara Hills, Road no 3, Hyderabad. The bus reached RCI at 9.30 AM and after a through security check the participant had to leave all cell phones and all electronic gadgets at the security gate itself.
The team was received by Dr. A. Thomas Jayaseelan, Sc. ‘E’ and Incharge of Visits and Exposition Hall. We were taken to the Hall of Missile technology at 10.AM. Dr. Thomas gave a one hour presentation about Missile Labs of DRDO of which RCI is one. He briefed about the various missiles developed by RCI and also gave a detailed description of various parts of a missile. He elaborated on missile subsystems like propulsion, payload, navigation, on board computers and control systems. Finally he discussed about the various achievements of RCI and closed his talk by inviting the young students to join RCI as scientist and take part in the nation building exercise.
There was a tea break from 11.00 AM to 11.15 AM. A 10 minute video was played in which the participants were briefed about the testing of missiles and interception of enemy missiles in endo and exo atmospheric levels. The members had an opportunity to see the models of missiles like NAG, Trishul, Akash, Prithvi and Agni and their internal parts.
The members were then taken to two work centers of RCI. The first center was inertial systems lab of the navigational and embedded computers complex. The participants were taken to clean room 10000. They had to go through the air shower before entering the clean room. The equipment for calibration of gyros, with 3 and 5 axes rotation were demonstrated by Dr. G. Vasudevan, incharge of the lab. The next lab where the team visited was the systems integration lab, where various parts of the missile are brought for final assembly. Dr. T. Mallikarjun Rao, Head integration lab gave a detailed description of assembling of missiles and their launching mechanisms. The scientists at RCI were very patient and responded to all queries of the participants. It was a great learning experience and we had a sense of Pride that India is second to none in all areas of technological development.

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