Lavanya Ananda Kumar

4G LTE Physical Layer Firmware Development 1) 4G LTE Physical Layer concepts 2) Hardware assisted tools (Lauterbach (Trace32)) 3) Cell Search Algorithm

"Modelling a Phase Locked Loop for Wireless Frequency Synchronization": 1) Designing and implementing an OFDM transmitter and receiver 2) Achieving high accuracy in carrier frequency reconstruction at receiver with the help of phase locked loop 3) Testing the system in the presence of multipath propagation, path attenuation and phase noise 4) Designing a Kalman Filter for precise phase estimation results

Various projects based on "Robot Operating Systems (ROS)": 1) “Bumper Control Robot” based on collision detection 2) “Gesture Control Robot” project with the use of camera and Robot Operating System (exhibited in Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Oct,2015) 3) Integration of RTKLIB (precise positioning with GNSS (global navigation satellite system) with ROS 4) “Wi-Fi fingerprinting” using the robot named “Turtlebot”

Simulation of a Proportional Fair Scheduler for wireless communication: 1) Simulation of a base station and mobile users environment 2) Optimization of the performance by considering the effects of multipath propagation and path loss 3) Resource Allocation based on Proportional fair scheduling and analyzing the performance

Worked with Body Chassis and Driver Assistance team: 1) Gained experience in using ADTF tool 2) Configuration of the Gateway used in Power-Train 3) Obtained operational experience in AUTOSAR (AUtomotive Open System ARchitecture- a consortium for Standardization of basic software) 4) Worked with communication types/formats such as CAN (Controller Area Network) and FLEXRAY

Digital Communications, Mobile Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Processing, Channel coding