M.

TECH - COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING AND NETWORKING

CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING & NETWORKING

SCOPE:
This course aims at preparing students in the area of computational sciences especially in data driven
modeling and scientific computation. Recent advances in computing-hardware platforms (NVIDIA
CPU-GPUs, and Intel-Altera CPU-FPGA) , Artificial Intelligence software platforms (like Torch,
Theano and Tensor-flow) and sensor technology (camera, lidar, ultrasonic sensors) has resulted rapid
progress in machine -cognition tasks and is expected that machines will soon surpass the humans in
visual and audio perception capabilities. This M.Tech course is tuned to cater to the demands in terms of
skills required of the new scenario.

Note: Curriculum take into account the fact that, Modern AI, data science and Scientific computing
requires strong foundation in Mathematics and statistics. So the strategy used in the choice and schedule
of the subjects is that “give strong foundation in common core and foundational subjects in the first two
semesters and allow the student to master an area of his/her choice through four electives, one minor and
major project. So 50% of the weightage is for building foundation and remaining 50 % for specialization.

CURRICULUM

First Semester
Course
Type Course LTP Credits
Code
FC Computational Linear Algebra and Optimization for 301 4
18MA607
Data Sciences
18CN621 SC Introduction to Machine Learning 201 3
18CN601 FC Algorithms and Structures for Data Science 201 3
18CN622 SC Real Time Operating System for Embedded 201 3
Computing
18CN623 SC Embedding Computing for Data Science 201 3
18RM600 SC Research Methodology 200 2
18HU601 HU Amrita Values Program* P/F
18HU602 HU Career Competency-I* P/F
Credits 18
*Non Credit Course
Second Semester
Course
Type Course LTP Credits
Code
SC Machine Learning for Signal Processing and Pattern 201 3
18CN624
Classification
18CN602 FC Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models 201 3
18CN625 SC Scientific Computing 201 3
18CN626 SC Computer Networks and IoT 201 3
E Elective-I 201 3
E Elective-II 201 3
18HU603 HU Career Competency-II 002 1
Credits 19
 Third Semester
Type Course LTP Credits
18CN627 SC Big Data Framework for Data Science 201 3
E Elective-III 201 3
E Elective-IV 201 3
18CN798 P Dissertation 8
Credits 17

Fourth Semester
Course
Type Course LTP Credits
Code
18CN799 P Dissertation 12
Credits 12
Total Credits: 66
 LIST OF COURSES
Foundation Core
Course
Course LTP Credits
Code
Computational Linear Algebra and Optimization for Data 3 0 1 4
18MA607
Sciences
18CN601 Algorithms and Structures for Data Science 2 0 1 3
18CN602 Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models 2 0 1 3

Subject Core
Course
Course LTP Credits
Code
18CN621 Introduction to Machine Learning 201 3
18CN622 Real Time Operating System for Embedded Computing 201 3
18CN623 Embedding Computing for Data Science 201 3
18CN624 Machine Learning for Signal Processing and Pattern 201 3
Classification
18CN625 Scientific Computing 201 3
18CN626 Computer Networks and IoT 201 3
18CN627 Big Data Framework for Data Science 201 3
18RM600 Research Methodology 200 2

Electives
Students are allowed to choose the electives offered under M.Tech RSW.

AUTOMATION AND CONTROL

Course Course LTP Credits

Code

18CN701 Feedback Control Systems 201 3

18CN702 Digital Control Systems 201 3

18CN703 Multivariable Control Systems 201 3

18CN704 Applied Kalman Filtering 201 3

18CN705 System Identification 201 3

18CN706 Modelling, Simulation and Identification of Battery 201 3

Dynamics

18CN707 Battery Management and Control 201 3

 Electives
VEHICLE POWER ELECTRONICS

All the Electives given under the specialization in “Automation and Control” are also applicable to the
specialization in “Vehicle Power Electronics”

Course Course LTP Credits

Code

18CN708 Modelling and Control of Power Electronics Systems 201 3

18CN709 Model Predictive Control 201 3

HEALTHCARE

Course Course LTP Credits

Code

18CN710 Deep Learning in Genomics and Biomedicine 201 3

18CN711 Deep Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis 201 3

AI and DATASCIENCE

Course Course LTP Credits

Code

18CN712 Introduction to Natural Language Processing 201 3

18CN713 Speech Processing 201 3

18CN714 Social Media Analytics 201 3

18CN715 Deep Learning for NLP 201 3

18CN716 Deep Learning for Visual Recognition 201 3

18CN717 Deep learning for Cybersecurity 201 3

Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace Electives

Course Course LTP Credits

Code

18CN718 Computational Fluid Mechanics 201 3

18CN719 Finite Element Analysis 201 3

 18CN720 Deep Learning Essentials for Self-Driving Car 201 3

18CN721 Introduction to Additive Manufacturing 201 3

18CN722 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Essential Control 201 3

18CN723 Computational Robotics and Robotic Operating System 201 3

18CN724 Complex Systems in Engineering, Finance & Biology: 201 3

Modelling & Analysis

18CN725 IoT for Disaster Management Systems 201 3

General Electives

Course Course LTP Credits

Code

18CN726 Introduction to Data Analysis 201 3

18CN727 Live-in-Lab 201 3

18MA607 COMPUTATIONAL LINEAR ALGEBRA AND OPTIMIZATION FOR DATA

SCIENCES 3-0-1-4

Matrices and Gaussian Elimination – Introduction, Geometry of Linear Equations, Gaussian Elimination,
Matrix multiplication, Inverses and Transposes, Special matrices and applications. Vector spaces and
Linear equations– Vector spaces and subspaces, linear independence, basis and dimension, the four
fundamental subspaces. Orthogonality - Perpendicular vectors and orthogonal subspaces, inner products
and projections onto lines, projections and least square applications, orthogonal basis, orthogonal spaces,
orthogonal matrices, Gram Schmidt orthogonalization, FFT. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors –
Introduction, diagonal form of a matrix, difference equations and the powers of A^k, Positive Definite
Matrices - Minima, Maxima and saddle points, tests for positive definiteness, semi-definite and indefinite
matrices, Singular Value Decomposition, iterative methods for Ax = b, applications in sparse signal and
image processing.Introduction - mathematical optimization, least-squares and linear programming,
convex and nonlinear optimization. Convex sets, Convex optimization problems - optimization problem
in standard form, convex optimization problems, quasi-convex optimization, linear optimization,
quadratic optimization, generalized inequality constraints, semi definite programming, vector
optimization. Duality, Approximation and fitting, Statistical estimation, Geometric problems,
Unconstrained minimization- gradient descent method, steepest descent method, Newton's method.
Equality constrained minimization - equality constrained minimization, eliminating equality constraints,
Newton's method with equality constraints, infeasible start Newton method, implementation. Interior-
point methods -inequality constrained minimization, logarithmic barrier function and central path, barrier
method, L1 Norm Optimization methods,
Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), Applications in Signal and Image Processing.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Gilbert Strang, “Linear Algebra and its Applications”, Third Edition, Harcourt College
Publishers, 1988.
2. Gene H. Golub and V. Van Loan, “Matrix Computations”, Third Edition, John Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore, 1996.
3. David C. Lay, “Linear Algebra and Its Applications”, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2002.
4. Stephen P. Boyd and LievenVandenberghe d, Convex Optimization, Cambridge University
press, 2004
5. Kalyanmoy Deb, "Optimization for Engineering Design Algorithms and Examples", Prentice Hall
of India, New Delhi, 2004.
6. Edwin K.P. Chong and Stanislaw H. Zak, “An Introduction to Optimization” Second Edition,
Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization, 2004.
7. M. AsgharBhatti, “Practical Optimization Methods: With Mathematica Applications”, Springer
VerlagPublishers, 2000.

18CN621 INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING 2-0-1-3

The need for Machine Learning – Supervised learning – Unsupervised Learning – Linear regression and
Feature selection – Linear Classification – Support Vector Machines – Clustering – Dimensionality
Reduction – Graphical – Artificial Neural Networks – Dimensionality Reduction - Combining classifiers
- regularization, clustering - Spectral clustering, Reinforcement Learning - Markov models - Large
Scale Machine Learning -Applications - Introduction to Deep Learning – Deep Learning Architectures –
LSTM – CNN – RNN – Hyper parameter tuning – Decision Trees – Machine Learning applied to
medical data – ECG – EEG – Deep Learning applications in medical data – EEG – ECG.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Bishop, C. M. Springer (2010).
2. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python. Mueller, A. C. & Guido, S. O’REILLY’ Publishers
(2016).
3. Fundamentals of Deep Learning: Designing Next-Generation Machine Intelligence Algorithms.
Buduma, N. &Locascio, N. O’REILLY’ Publishers (2017).
4. Introduction to Machine Learning, 2nd Edition. Alpaydin, E. MIT Press (2009).
5. Soman, K. P., Loganathan, R., & Ajay, V. (2009). Machine learning with SVM and other kernel
methods. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
6. EthemAlpaydin, ―Introduction to Machine Learning 3e (Adaptive Computation and Machine
Learning Series)‖, Third Edition, MIT Press, 2014
7. Stephen Marsland, ―Machine Learning – An Algorithmic Perspective‖, Second Edition, Chapman and
Hall/CRC Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Series, 2014.
8. Tom M Mitchell, ―Machine Learning‖, First Edition, McGraw Hill Education, 2013.

18CN601 ALGORITHMS AND STRUCTURES FOR DATA SCIENCE 2-0-1-3

Algorithm Analysis - Methodologies for Analyzing Algorithms, Asymptotic Notation, A Quick

Mathematical Review, Case Studies in Algorithm Analysis, Amortization, Experimentation .Basic Data
Structures - Stacks and Queues, Vectors, Lists, and Sequences, Trees, Priority, Queues and Heaps,
Dictionaries and Hash Tables.
Search Trees and Skip Lists - Ordered Dictionaries and Binary Search Trees, AVL Trees. Bounded-
Depth Search Trees, Splay Trees, Skip Lists. Sorting, Sets, and Selection - Merge-Sort, Abstract Data
Type, Quick-Sort, A Lower Bound on Comparison-Based Sorting, Bucket-Sort and Radix-Sort,
Comparison of Sorting Algorithms, Selection. FundamentalTechniques - The Greedy Method, Divide-
and-Conquer, Dynamic Programming.Graphs - Abstract Data Type Data Structures for Graphs, Graph
Traversal. Directed Graphs , Weighted Graphs, Single-Source Shortest Paths, All-Pairs Shortest Paths,
Minimum Spanning Trees, Network Flow and Matching, Flows and Cuts. Additional Topics-
Computational Geometry, Range Trees, Priority Search Trees, Quadtrees and k-D Trees, the Plane Sweep
Technique, Convex Hulls. NP-Completeness - P and NP, NP-Completeness, Important NP-Complete
Problems.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Michael T. Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, “Algorithm Design Foundations, Analysis and
Internet Examples”, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
2. Michael T. Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, “Data Structures and Algorithms in C++”, John
Wiley and Sons, 2003.
3. Michael T. Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, “Data Structures and Algorithms in Java”, Fourth
Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.

18CN622 REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDED COMPUTING 2-0-1-3

Programming languages intended for real time systems, Introduction to Real time operating system
(RTOS), System support: scheduling, resource handling, Design and analysis of real time system
software, Modelling and verification of real time systems, Reliability and fault tolerance, Interrupts, Fault
recovery, Distributed real time systems, Real time communication, Real time systems for multiprocessor
systems

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Liu, Jane W. S., Real-time systemsUpper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, cop. 2000
2. Rajib Mall, "Real-Time Systems: Theory and Practice," Pearson, 2008.
3. Jane W. Liu, "Real-Time Systems" Pearson Education, 2001.
4. Krishna and Shin, "Real-TIme Systems," Tata McGraw Hill. 1999.

18CN623 EMBEDDED COMPUTING FOR DATA SCIENCE 2-0-1-3

Introduction to Embedded systems, hardware/software code sign, Embedded micro controller cores,
embedded memories,Basic electronics using arduino and raspberry pi, Examples of embedded systems,
sensors and interfacing techniques, Real-time concepts, real-time operating systems, Required RTOS
services/capabilities (in contrast with traditional OS). Digital Systems- Design of P, PI, and PID
controllers. State space and filtering systems. Motor Controls. Communication systems- System design
and simulation on simulink. Signal processing systems- Hardware based on DSP Chips and
Microcontrollers, Development environments of microcontrollers and DSP processors. Software
development for data acquisition, fundamentals of wireless networks for embedded system, Interfacing
and Integration of microcontroller based systems. Examples of Industrial process automation, software
development using python, introduction to data streams and analytics. Data visualization using python
tools,Machine learning techniques on sensor data streams

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. D. Gajski, F. Vahid, S. Narayan, and J. Gong.“Specification and Design of Embedded Systems”,
PEARSON Education, 1994

2. Syaunstrup and W. Wolf. “Hardware Software Co-design: Principles and Practice”, Kluwer,
Academic Publishers, 1997
3. Python Programming with Raspberry Pi Paperback – Import, 28 Apr 2017
by Sai Yamanoor and Srihari Yamanoor

18CN624 MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING AND PATTERN

CLASSIFICATION 2-0-1-3
Introduction to real world signals - speech, image. Feature extraction and front-end signal processing -
information rich representations, robustness to noise and artifacts, signal enhancement, bio inspired
feature extraction. Basics of pattern recognition, Discriminative modeling - support vector machines,
neural networks and back propagation. Introduction to deep learning - convolutional and recurrent
networks, pre-training and practical considerations in deep learning, understanding deep
networks.Clustering methods and decision trees.Applications in computer vision and speech recognition.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”, C.M. Bishop, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2011.
2. “Deep Learning”, I. Goodfellow, Y, Bengio, A. Courville, MIT Press, 2016.
3. “Digital Image Processing”, R. C. Gonzalez, R. E. Woods, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008. d.
“Fundamentals of speech recognition”, L. Rabiner and H. Juang, Prentice Hall, 1993.
4. “Deep Learning: Methods and Applications”, Li Deng, Microsoft Technical Report.
5. “Automatic Speech Recognition - Deep learning approach" - D. Yu, L. Deng, Springer, 2014.
“Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications”, R. Szeliski, Springer, 2010

18CN602 DEEP LEARNING AND PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS 2-0-1-3

Samples, Events, Event space, Probability Space , Random Variables, Independence and Conditional
Independence, Conditional Probability, Joint Probability, Bayes' theorem Joint and Marginal Probability,
Estimation Theory - Maximum Likelihood Estimators. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Direct and
undirected model, Inference from Direct and undirected graphical model, Structured and Unstructured
graphical models, Partition Function, D-Separation, Energy based models, Factor Graphs, Sampling from
Graphical Models. Montecarlo Methods: Markov Chain and Montecarlo methods, Gibbs Sampling,
Approximate Inference – Expectation Maximization, MAP Inference. Special cases: HMM, CRF,
Kalman Filter, Deep Learning and graphical Models. .

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Koller, Daphne, and Nir Friedman. Probabilistic graphical models: principles and techniques.
MIT press, 2009.
2. Ian Goodfellow, YoshuaBengio and Aaron Courville, Deep Learning, MIT press 2016

18CN625 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 2-0-1-3

Root finding: Functions and polynomials, zeros of a function, roots of a nonlinear equation, bracketing,
bisection, secant, and Newton-Raphson methods. Interpolation, splines, polynomial fits, Chebyshev
approximation. Numerical Integration and Differentiation: Evaluation of integrals, elementary analytical
methods, trapezoidal and Simpson’s rules, Romberg integration, Gaussian quadrature and orthogonal
polynomials, multidimensional integrals, summation of series, Euler-Maclaurin summation formula,
numerical differentiation and estimation of errors. Ordinary differential equations: Lipschitz condition,
solutions in closed form, power series method. Numerical methods: error analysis, stability and
convergence, Euler and Runge-Kutta methods, multistep methods, Adams-Bashforth and Adams-
Moulton methods, Gear’s open and closed methods, predictor-corrector methods.
Numerical solution of PDEs: relaxation methods for elliptic PDEs, Crank-Nicholson method for
parabolic PDEs, Lax-Wendroff method for hyperbolic PDEs. Calculus of variations and variational
techniques for PDEs, integral equations. Finite element method and finite difference time domain
method, method of weighted residuals, weak and Galerkin forms, ordinary and weighted/general least
squares. Fitting models to data, parameter estimation using PDEs.Iterative methods for Solution of linear
matrix equations.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Kutz, J. Nathan, Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex
Systems & Big Data, Oxford University press,
2. Arfken, G.B., and Weber, H.J., Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Sixth Edition, Academic
Press, 2005.

18CN626 COMPUTER NETWORKS AND IOT 2-0-1-3

This course starts with the basics of computer networks and basic requirements to setup a network .The
course take through discussion of current problems faced in networking and how to resolve it. The
remaining portion covers the OSI Layers, Protocols, Web technologies, IOT Architectures, Introducing
IOT frameworks and cloud platforms for IOT. The practical aspects of the subject will be covered
through a specially made embedded board called ESP32 development board for IOT along with open
source cloud platforms for data management and visualization
Introduction to computer Networks, Building a Network, Network Architecture, Implementing Network
Software, Introduction to web technologies for IOT, Introduction to cloud services and platforms for
IOT, Building IOT Application using ESP32 development board, Web programming and Database
management, IOT application development using Arduino, Raspbery-PI and ESP32

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. CISCO Semester 1 and 2,“Networking Course” Reference Material.
2. Computer networks a Systems Approach By Larry .L.Peterson and Bruce.S.Davie
3. Raspberry PI Networking Cookbook
 4. An Introduction to Computer Networks By Peter L Dordal
5. Fiction Programming the Raspberry Pi- Getting Started with Python - Simon Monk
6. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Computer Networks”, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.
7. Designing the Internet of Things (Paperback)by Adrian McEwen,HakimCassimally

8. Stan Openshaw and Ian Turton, “High-Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel
Programming”, O’Rielly Press, 2000.

18CN627 BIGDATA FRAMEWORK FOR DATASCIENCE 2-0-1-3

New generation Big data using Functional Programming in Scala: Basic Syntax- type inference and static
types- function types and value types, closures. Immutability and immutable types-generic type
Parameters-Recursive arbitrary collections-cons list- Iterative arbitrary collections-Arrays-Tail recursion-
factorial example-functional abstractions with examples-square root, fixed point, sequence summations.
Higher order functions- MapReduce Template-Pattern Matching syntax. Similar higher order (Cons) List
operations on arbitrary Collections-filter, fold, partition, span. Basic entity classes and object in Scala.
Apache Spark: - Resilient Distributed Data Sets- Creating RDDs, Lineage and Fault tolerance, DAGs,
Immutability, task division and partitions, transformations and actions, lazy evolutions and optimization -
Formatting and housing data from spark RDDs-Distributed File systemsHDFS and Tachyon-Persistance.
Setting up a standalone Spark cluster-: spark-shell, basic API, ModulesCore-Key/Value pairs and other
RDD features, MLlib-examples for bi-class SVM and logistic regression, Streaming and stream context,
GraphX- streaming work count and page rank example. Data Frames and Datasets. Creating data frames
from RDDs. Using Spark SQL to query data frames. NoSQL aggregate data bases. Graph data bases and
querying them. Some analytics case studies: - Server Log data, Wikipedia dump text, Financial data,
image data (using Cifar and Mnist), Matrix/ Vector multiplication and factorization using MapReduce.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis 1st Edition by Holden Karau , Andy Konwinski,
Patrick Wendell, MateiZaharia
2. Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide Third Edition by Martin Odersky, Lex
Spoon, Bill Venners.
3. High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark 1st Edition, by
Holden Karau, Rachel Warren
4. Scala for the Impatient 2nd Edition, by Cay S. Horstmann
5. Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by Bill
Chambers, MateiZaharia

18RM600 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2-0-0-2

Unit I:
Meaning of Research, Types of Research, Research Process, Problem definition, Objectives of Research,
Research Questions, Research design, Approaches to Research, Quantitative vs. Qualitative Approach,
Understanding Theory, Building and Validating Theoretical Models, Exploratory vs. Confirmatory
Research, Experimental vs Theoretical Research, Importance of reasoning in research.

Unit II:
Problem Formulation, Understanding Modeling & Simulation, Conducting Literature Review,
Referencing, Information Sources, Information Retrieval, Role of libraries in Information Retrieval,
Tools for identifying literatures, Indexing and abstracting services, Citation indexes

Unit III:
Experimental Research: Cause effect relationship, Development of Hypothesis, Measurement Systems
Analysis, Error Propagation, Validity of experiments, Statistical Design of Experiments, Field
Experiments, Data/Variable Types & Classification, Data collection, Numerical and Graphical Data
Analysis: Sampling, Observation, Surveys, Inferential Statistics, and Interpretation of Results

Unit IV:
Preparation of Dissertation and Research Papers, Tables and illustrations, Guidelines for writing the
abstract, introduction, methodology, results and discussion, conclusion sections of a manuscript.
References, Citation and listing system of documents

Unit V:
Intellectual property rights (IPR) - patents-copyrights-Trademarks-Industrial design geographical
indication. Ethics of Research- Scientific Misconduct- Forms of Scientific Misconduct. Plagiarism,
Unscientific practices in thesis work, Ethics in science

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Bordens, K. S. and Abbott, B. B., “Research Design and Methods – A Process Approach”,
8th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2011
2. C. R. Kothari, “Research Methodology – Methods and Techniques”, 2nd Edition, New Age
International Publishers
3. Davis, M., Davis K., and Dunagan M., “Scientific Papers and Presentations”, 3rd Edition,
Elsevier Inc.
4. Michael P. Marder,“ Research Methods for Science”, Cambridge University Press, 2011
5. T. Ramappa, “Intellectual Property Rights Under WTO”, S. Chand, 2008
6. Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, “Intellectual Property in New
Technological Age”. Aspen Law & Business; 6 edition July 2012

ELECTIVES

AUTOMATION AND CONTROL

18CN701 FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS 2-0-1-3

Introduction to feedback control - System modeling in the time domain - Dynamic response- Basic
properties of feedback - Stability analysis - Root-locus analysis - Root-locus controller design -
Frequency-response analysis - Frequency-response design - Digital controller implementation.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Joao P. Hespanha, Linear Systems Theory, Princeton University Press, 2009.
Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE4510/index.html

18CN702 DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS 2-0-1-3

Introduction to digital control - Emulation of analog controllers - Sampling and reconstruction.- Stability
analysis techniques - Digital controller design - Digital filter structures and quantization effects -
Adaptive inverse control.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Joao P. Hespanha, Linear Systems Theory, Princeton University Press, 2009.
2. Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5540/index.html

18CN703 MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS 2-0-1-3

Continuous-time state-space systems - Discrete-time state-space systems – Stability - Observability and
controllability - State-feedback control - Output-feedback control - Linear quadratic regulation.

Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5520/index.html

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Joao P. Hespanha, Linear Systems Theory, Princeton University Press, 2009.

18CN704 APPLIED KALMAN FILTERING 2-0-1-3

Introduction to Kalman filters - State-space dynamic systems - Dynamic systems with noisy inputs - The
linear Kalman filter - Kalman filter generalizations - Nonlinear Kalman filters - Particle filters -
IMM/multitarget tracking - Simultaneous state and parameter estimation - Kalman filter applications.

Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5550/index.html

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Simon, D.,Optimal State Estimation: Kalman,H8 and Nonlinear Approaches ,Wiley Interscience, 2006
18CN705 SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION 2-0-1-3
Introduction to system identification - LTI systems, time-domain nonparametric system ID - Frequency-
domain nonparametric system ID - Transfer function models and parametric system ID - Deterministic
state-space models and system ID - Stochastic state-space models and system ID - Feedback and real-
time system ID.

Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5560/index.html

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Ljung, L., “System Identification: Theory for the User,” 2d, Prentice Hall PTR, 1999.

18CN706 MODELLING, SIMULATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BATTERY DYNAMICS

2-0-1-3
Battery boot camp - Equivalent-circuit cell models - Microscale cell models - Continuum (porous
electrode) cell models - State-space models and the dynamic realization algorithm. - Reduced-order
models of cell dynamics - Thermal models.
Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5710/index.html

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Gregory L. Plett, Battery Management Systems, Volume 1: Battery Modeling, ARTECH House, Boston,
USA

18CN707 BATTERY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL 2-0-1-3

Functions of a battery management system - Battery models and simulation of battery packs - Battery
state estimation - Battery health estimation - Cell balancing - Voltage-based power limit estimation -
Physics-based optimal control
Course web-page: http://mocha-java.uccs.edu/ECE5720/index.html

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Gregory L. Plett, Battery Management Systems, Volume II: Equivalent-Circuit Methods, ARTECH
House, Boston, USA

VEHICLE POWER ELECTRONICS

All the Electives given under the specialization in “Automation and Control” are also applicable to the
specialization in “Vehicle Power Electronics”

18CN708 MODELLING AND CONTROL OF POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS

 2-0-1-3

Averaged switch modeling and simulation - Techniques of design-oriented analysis - Dynamic modeling
and simulation of converters operating in discontinuous conduction mode - Introduction to sampled-data
modeling - Current programmed control - Introduction to digital control of switching converters -
Modern rectifiers

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:

Erickson and Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Springer Science+Business
(2000), ISBN 0-7923-7270-0.

18CN709 MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL 2-0-1-3

Review of mathematical fundamentals - Dynamic systems - Discrete-time systems - Model predictive

control formulation - Discrete-time model predictive control with constraints – Stability - Robust model
predictive control - Case study examples and applications of model predictive control.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Erickson and Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Springer Science+Business
(2000), ISBN 0-7923-7270-0.

HEALTHCARE

18CN710 DEEP LEARNING IN GENOMICS AND BIOMEDICINE 2-0-1-3

Introduction to Machine Learning - Genomics – DenseNets and Convolutional Nets for Genomics -
Recurrent NN –Autoencoders and representation learning - Generative Models –Drug Discovery and
protein structure: MoleculeNet – One shot Learning drug discovery - Case Studies

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
Based on latest research papers

18CN711 DEEP LEARNING FOR BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALSIS 2-0-1-3

Introduction to Deep Learning - Convolutional Neural Networks - Convolutional Neural Networks:
Architectures – Convolution / pooling layers – Understanding and Visualizing Convolutional Neural
Networks . Lenet, Alexnet, Googlenet for visual perception tasks- Point of care disease diagnosis using
CNN – Case Studies based on latest research papers.
TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Simonyan, Karen, Andrea Vedaldi, and Andrew Zisserman. "Deep inside convolutional networks:
Visualising image classification models and saliency maps." arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6034 (2013).
2.Zeiler, Matthew D., and Rob Fergus. "Visualizing and understanding convolutional
networks."Computer vision–ECCV 2014.Springer International Publishing, 2014.818-833.
3.Domingos, Pedro. "A few useful things to know about machine learning." Communications of the ACM
55.10 (2012): 78-87.
AI & DATASCIENCE

18CN712 INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 2-0-1-3

Introduction - Words - Regular Expressions - N-grams - Python for NLP - Part-of-Speech Tagging -
Hidden Markov and Maximum Entropy Models - Morphological analyzer using machine learning-
Syntactic Parsing - Statistical Parsing -Dependency Parsing- Features and Unification - Language and
Complexity. The Representation of Meaning - Computational Semantics - Lexical Semantics - Vector
space models - Question Answering and Summarization - Dialogue and Conversational Agents -
Machine Translation-

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Jurafsky D, Martin JH. Speech and Language Processing. 2nd edn Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 2008.
2. Manning C, Schuetze H. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1999.
3. Sandra Kübler, Ryan McDonaldandJoakimNivre,“Dependency Parsing Synthesis Lectures on
Human Language Technologies”, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2009.

18CN713 SPEECH PROCESSING 2-0-1-3

Overview of Speech Processing, Spectral, TemporalandSpectro-Temporal Analysis of Speech, Source

Filter Theory of Speech Production, Cepstral Analysis of Speech, Linear Prediction Analysis, Speech
Coding. Development of Speech Systems.
Neurons, Combining Neurons, Feed Forward Networks , Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling
in Speech recognition. Context Dependent Deep Neural Nets, Output representation of speech deep
nets, Linear output representation in deep stacking network. Kernal Deep Networks.Recurrent
NN.Comparing the relative performance of Speaker Independent GMM-HMM system and DNN on
TIMIT Database.Glottal activity detection. Glottal Activity detection using Deep belief networks
TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Li Deng, " Deep Learning: Methods and Applications", Foundations and Trends® in Signal
Processing: Vol. 7: No. 3–4, pp 197-387, 2014
2. Dong Yu and Li Deng " Automatic Speech Recognition- A deep learning approach", Springer,
2015
3. Rabiner, Juang and B. Yegnanarayana, “ Fundamentals of Speech Recognition”, Pearson
Ed.,2009
4. Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu, George Dahl, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, NavdeepJaitly,
Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke, Patrick Nguyen, Tara Sainath, and Brian Kingsbury, " Deep
Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech recognition" , IEEE Signal Process.
Magazine, Nov. 2012
5. Li Deng, Douglas O'Shaughnessy, " Speech Processing: A Dynamic and Optimization-Oriented
Approach", CRC Press, 2003
6. Li Deng and Dong Yu, "Deep Convex Net: A Scalable Architecture for Speech Pattern
Classification", in proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2011
7. Li Deng and Dong Yu, "Deep Convex Networks for image and speech classification", in
international conference on machine learning, June 2011
8. Li Deng, Dong Yu and John Platt, "Scalable stacking and learning for building deep
architectures", in proceedings ICASSP 2012
9. Abdel-rahman Mohammad, G. E. Hinton, Gerald Penn, " Understanding how Deep Belief
Networks perform acoustic Modeling", in proc. ICASP 2012
10. Brian Hutchinson, Li Deng and Dong Yu, "Tensor deep stacking Networks", IEEE Trans. on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 35, No. 8, Aug. 2013

18CN714 SOCIAL MEDIA DATA ANALYTICS 2-0-1-3

Introduction to Text Analytics- Text Analytics in Social Media - Python and R- Collecting and
Extracting Social Media Data - Vector Space Models of Semantics - Data Analysis, Visualization, and
Exploration -Sentiment Analysis with Social media data Data - Author profiling in Social media data-
Network Analysis with R . - Code-mixed data analytics -Topic modelling - Influence and Centrality
in Social Networks -Geospatial social data mining - Shingling of Documents -Mining Data Streams,
The Stream Data Model, Sampling Data in Stream, Filtering Streams, Link Analysis, Page Rank, Topic-
Sensitive Page Rank, Link Spam, hubs and Authorities, Frequent Itemsets- Mining Social network
Graphs

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Jure Leskovec, AnandRajaraman, Jeffrey D Ullman, “Mining of Massive Datasets”, 2014.
 2. Charu C. Aggarwal, “Social Networking Analytics”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2011.
3. Charu C. Aggarwal, Cheng Xiang Zhai, “Mining Text Data”, Springer, 2012.
4. Cheng, Zhiyuan, James Caverlee, and Kyumin Lee. "You are where you tweet: a content-based
approach to geo-locating twitter users." Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on
Information and knowledge management.ACM, 2010.

18CN715 DEEP LEARNING FOR NLP 2-0-1-3

Introduction to NLP and Deep Learning -Simple Word Vector representations: word2vec, GloVe -
Advanced word vector representations: language models, softmax, single layer networks -Neural
Networks and back propagation for named entity recognition- Introduction to Tensorflow -Recurrent
neural networks for language modelling and other tasks - GRUs and LSTMs for machine translation -
Recursive neural networks for parsing - Recursive neural networks for different NLP tasks -
Convolutional neural networks for sentence classification - The future of Deep Learning for NLP:
Dynamic Memory Networks.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Turney, Peter D., and Patrick Pantel. "From frequency to meaning: Vector space models of
semantics." Journal of artificial intelligence research 37 (2010): 141-188.
2. Mikolov, Tomas, et al. "Efficient estimation of word representations in vector space." arXiv
preprint arXiv:1301.3781 (2013).
3. Mikolov, Tomas, et al. "Distributed representations of words and phrases and their
compositionality." Advances in neural information processing systems. 2013.
4. Pennington, J., Socher, R., & Manning, C. (2014). Glove: Global vectors for word representation.
In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing
(EMNLP) (pp. 1532-1543).
5. Collobert, R., Weston, J., Bottou, L., Karlen, M., Kavukcuoglu, K., &Kuksa, P. (2011).Natural
language processing (almost) from scratch.Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12(Aug),
2493-2537.
6. Abadi, Martín, Paul Barham, Jianmin Chen, Zhifeng Chen, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu
Devin et al. "TensorFlow: A System for Large-Scale Machine Learning." In OSDI, vol. 16, pp.
265-283. 2016
7. Kumar, A., Irsoy, O., Ondruska, P., Iyyer, M., Bradbury, J., Gulrajani, I., Zhong, V., Paulus, R.
and Socher, R., 2016, June. Ask me anything: Dynamic memory networks for natural language
processing. In International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 1378-1387).
8. Liu, W., Wang, Z., Liu, X., Zeng, N., Liu, Y., &Alsaadi, F. E. (2017).A survey of deep neural
network architectures and their applications.Neurocomputing, 234, 11-26.
18CN716 DEEP LEARNING FOR VISUAL RECOGNITION 2-0-1-3

Image Classification: Data driven approach – k- Nearest Neighbor - Linear Classification: Support
Vector Machine – softmax – Optimization: Stochastic Gradient Descent – Backpropagation – Neural
Network Architecture: model of a biological neuron – activation functions – neural net architecture –
preprocessing – weight initialization - batch normalization – regularization – loss functions- Learning and
Evaluation – Convolutional Neural Networks: Architectures – Convolution / pooling layers –
Understanding and Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks . Lenet, Alexnet, Googlenet for visual
perception tasks..

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Domingos, Pedro. "A few useful things to know about machine learning." Communications of the
ACM 55.10 (2012): 78-87.
2. Li Fei-Fei (Stanford), Rob Fergus (NYU), Antonio Torralba (MIT), “Recognizing and Learning
Object Categories” (Awarded the Best Short Course Prize at ICCV 2005).
3. Baydin, AtilimGunes, Barak A. Pearlmutter, and Alexey AndreyevichRadul. "Automatic
differentiation in machine learning: a survey." arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05767 (2015).
4. Bengio, Yoshua. "Practical recommendations for gradient-based training of deep architectures."
Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 437-478.
5. LeCun, Yann A., et al. "Efficient backprop." Neural networks: Tricks of the trade. Springer Berlin
Heidelberg, 2012. 9-48.
6. Simonyan, Karen, Andrea Vedaldi, and Andrew Zisserman. "Deep inside convolutional networks:
Visualising image classification models and saliency maps." arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6034
(2013).
7. Zeiler, Matthew D., and Rob Fergus. "Visualizing and understanding convolutional networks."
Computer vision–ECCV 2014. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 818-833.
8. Springenberg, Jost Tobias, et al. "Striving for simplicity: The all convolutional net." arXiv
preprint arXiv:1412.6806 (2014).
9. Russakovsky, Olga, et al. "Imagenet large scale visual recognition challenge." International
Journal of Computer Vision 115.3 (2015): 211-252.
10. Mahendran, Aravindh, and Andrea Vedaldi. "Understanding deep image representations by
inverting them." Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015 IEEE Conference on.
IEEE, 2015.

18CN717 DEEP LEARNING FOR CYBERSECURITY 2-0-1-3

Introduction – Vocabulary- Concepts: History , Crash Course in Number Theory -Properties of Mod-
Calculator algorithms- Simple cryptosystems- Modern stream ciphers- Running time of algorithms- AES-
Public key cryptography- RSA- Signatures-Hash functions- Finite fields- Discrete log cryptosystems -
Diffie Hellman key exchange- ElGamal message exchange- Massey Omura message exchange- ElGamal
signature system- Elliptic curves- Elliptic curve cryptosystems.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Kaufman, C., Perlman, R. and Speciner, M., “Network Security: Private Communication in a Public
World ”, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall 2002.
2. W. Stallings: “Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practices”, 4th edition, Prentice
Hall, 2000.
3. D. R. Stinson: “Cryptography: Theory and Practice”, third ed., CRC Press, 2005.

MECHANICAL/CIVIL/AEROSPACE ELECTIVES

18CN718 COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS 2-0-1-3

Introduction to CFD and principles of conservation, continuity equation, Navier stokes equation, energy
equation and general structure of conservation equations. Numerical Solution of ODEs, methods for
parabolic equations, methods for elliptic equations, methods for hyperbolic equations, systems of
equations, Aerodynamics-Hydrodynamics with Python, Application in unmanned aerial vehicles,
Autonomous cars.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. T.J Chung, Computational fluid dynamics, Cambridge university press, 2002
2. H.K. Versteeg&W.Malalasekera, An introduction to Computational fluid dynamics, Longman
scientific and Technical, 1995
3. Leona Barbara, CFD Python:12 steps to Navier-Stokes, Online course material
4. Leona Barbara, Aero Python: Aerodynamics-Hydrodynamics with Python, online course
material

18CN719 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS 2-0-1-3

Basic concept of Finite Element Method, Historical background, FEM Applications, General Description
of FEM, Commercial FEM software packages. Spring element-stiffness matrix, boundary conditions,
solving equations.Variational formulation approach- Rayleigh-Ritz method,Principle of minimum
Potential Energy, Weighted residual methods, Bar and Beam elements, local and global coordinate
system, transformation of coordinate systems, element stress. Analysis of truss. Natural coordinate
system, Interpolation polynomial, Isoparametric elements and Numerical integration -Gaussian
quadrature approach-simple problems in 1-D, Review of the basic theory in 2-D elasticity, plane stress,
2-D problems using Constant Strain Triangles (CST), isoparametric representation, element matrices,
stress calculations. Finite element modeling and simulation techniques-symmetry, Nature of FE
solutions, error, convergence, adaptivity, substructures (super elements) in FEA, Review of basic
dynamic equations, Hamilton’s principle, element massmatrices, free vibration (normal mode) analysis,
Eigen values and Eigen vectors. Introduction to transient response analysis, Review of basic equations of
heat transfer, steady state one dimensional heatconduction, governing equations, boundary conditions,
element characteristics-Simple problems in 1-D, 2-D, 3-D problems, introduction to transient heat
transfer, simple problems using ANSYS.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Chandrupatla&Belagundu, “Finite elements in Engineering”, Prentice Hall of India Private Ltd.,
1997.
2. Rao S.S. “Finite Element Method in Engineering”, Pregamon Press, 1989.
3. Krishnamoorthy. C.S., “Finite Element Analysis- Theory and Programming”, Tata McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co., 1987.
4. Reddy, J.N. “An introduction to the Finite Element Method”, McGraw Hill Book Company New
York; 1984.
5. Zienkiewicz. O.C. “The Finite Element Method in Engg. Science”, McGraw-Hill, London, 1977.
6. Cook, Robert Davis et all, “Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis”, Willy, John
& Sons, 1999.

18CN720 DEEP LEARNING ESSENTIALS FOR SELF-DRIVING CAR 2-0-1-3

Introduction to self driving technology, fundamentals of deep learning, introduction and overview of
Python, Machine Learning with Python, Neural Networks with Python, Introduction to tensorflow and
kerasdeeplearning platforms, Fundamentals of building a driverless vehicles from a conventional car,
introduction to embedded platforms for self driving car software development, Integration of various
sensors to self driving cars, Navigation and obstacle avoidance using deep learning
TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:
1. Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead (MIT Press) Hardcover– September 23,
2016 by HodLipson , Melba Kurman
2. Deep Learning An MIT Press book, by Ian Goodfellow and YoshuaBengio and Aaron
Courvill
3. http://cs231n.github.io/
4. Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge
5. http://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/

18CN721 INTRODUCTION TO ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING 2-0-1-3

Historical evolution of rapid prototyping technology in the CAD/ CAM hierarchy, Fundamental steps in
rapid prototype, ASTM F42 standard terminolgy and main varieties of machine technologies used
internationally, Advantages and disadvantages of main RP technologies, Guidelines for safe operation of
RP machines and handling of associated RP materials, Stereolithography apparatus (SLA), Fused
deposition modeling (FDM), Multi-jet modeling (MJM), Selective laser sintering (SLS), Three-
dimensional printing (3DP), Additive Manufacturing data file formats and manipulation, Stereo
lithography (STL) file export and import procedures/ translation to RP machines driven with varied
proprietary software , STL file problems and repair techniques, Clean-up, finishing, surface coatings and
quality assurance methods in RP technologies, Secondary applications ,Metal Casting processes, Silicone
mold making and resin casting process, Rapid tooling for manufacturing, General uses, benefits and
industry specific applications for Additive Manufacturing

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Ian Gibson, David W. Rosen, Brent Stucker , “Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid
Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing”, Springer,2009
2. Ali K. Kamrani, Emad Abouel Nasr , “Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping”, Sringer,
2010
3. Brian Evans, “Practical 3D Printers: The Science and Art of 3D Printing”,Apress,2012
4. Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman, “ Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing”, John Wiley & Sons,
2013

18CN722 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES AND ESSENTIAL CONTROL 2-0-1-3

This course includes UAV components, command and control (C2) communication systems, basics of
flight, regulatory and regulations, safety and societal considerations. Laboratory activities provide
opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience in working with UAVs, Design aspects of drone,
Drone control experiments using MATLAB and parrot drones, PID control for drones, State space
controls for drone

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. ASA Test Prep. Remote Pilot Test Prep — UAS: Study & Prepare. Wellfleet Press, 2016. 978-
1577151326
2. Austin, Unmanned Aircraft Systems: UAVS Design, Development and Deployment. Wiley, 2010.
978-0- 470-05819-0
3. Baichtal, Building Your Own Drones: A Beginners' Guide to Drones, UAVs, and ROVs. Que
Publishing, 2016. 978-0789755988
4. Beard & McLain, Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice. Princeton University Press, 2012.
978- 0691149219
5. Cares &Dickmann, Operations Research for Unmanned Systems. Wiley, 2016. 978-1-118-91894-4
6. UAS110 Syllabus - Page 3 Chao & Chen, Remote Sensing and Actuation Using Unmanned Vehicles.
Wiley, 2012. 978-1-118- 12276-1
7. Cheng, Aerial Photography and Videography Using Drones. Peachpit Press, 2015. 978-0-13-412277-9

18CN723 COMPUTATIONAL ROBOTICS AND ROBOTIC OPERATING SYSTEM 2-0-1-3

Anintroductory course presenting foundational material in the design of robots. Topics include basic
properties of sensors, motors, gears, drive mechanisms, control schemes, and processors to guide and
control robots. This course provides a general introduction to robotics from a computational perspective
with a focus on mobile robots. This includes the use of popular software for interacting with and
simulating robots, such as the Robot Operation System (ROS). It will provide a view of robots as
autonomous agents with a mechanical embodiment, which must observe and act upon their surroundings
through the iterative execution of a sensing-planning-actuation loop. On the sensing and perception side,
the course will cover state estimation challenges, such as robot localization, simultaneous localization
and mapping (SLAM), as well as Bayesian solutions to these problems, such as Kalman and particle
filters. For planning and decision making purposes, the course will introduce basic planning and re-
planning methods, such as A* and D*-like algorithms, the configuration space abstraction, sampling-
based planners, and a toolbox of algorithms that solve problems by utilizing these principles.
Extensions to multi-robot systems, online planning and handling uncertainty will be touched upon as
well. On the control side, the course will offer an introductory coverage of robot kinematics and
dynamics, as well as foundational algorithms for trajectory following (e.g., PID).The lab activities will be
done using Arduino, Raspberry Pi hardware for building the mobile robots.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms In MATLAB® Second, Completely
Revised, Extended And Updated Edition (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) Paperback – 23
May 2017 by Peter Corke
2. Programming Robots with ROS A Practical Introduction to the Robot Operating System By Brian
Gerkey, William Smart, Morgan Quigley
3. Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming Paperback – Import, 21 Dec 2015
by Lentin Joseph
4. Advances in Automation, Robotics and Measurement Techniques Series: Advances in
Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 743 Szewczyk, Roman, Zieliński, Cezary,
Kaliczyńska, Małgorzata (Eds.)2018

18CN724 COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN ENGINEERING, FINANCE & BIOLOGY: MODELLING

& ANALYSIS 2-0-1-3

Definition of a complex system- Complex systems in engineering- Complex systems in nature & society-
Modelling of complex systems-Introduction to dynamical system theory- standard models in dynamical
systems-transitions in dynamical systems-bifurcations- Maps and flows- Chaos- Routes to chaos.
Analysis of chaotic data from experiments-basics of time series analysis-standard models in time series
analysis-nonlinear time series analysis- phase space reconstruction- precursors to predict transitions in
complex systems- critical slowing down- precursors based on recurrence-precursors based on multifractal
formalism.
Emergence of order in complex systems-transitions as pattern formation-spatial early warning signals-
complex networks-network properties as early warning measures-Networks in natural and engineering
systems-Networks in biology-Networks in finance.
Applications in remote sensing- Applications in cyber security- Applications in physiology- Applications
in finance-future of complex system theory.

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. N. Boccora, Modelling of Complex Systems, 2nd Edition, Springer 2010.
2. S. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry &
Engineering, 2nd Edition, Westview Press 2014.
3. H. D. I. Abarbanel, Analysis of Observed Chaotic Data, Springer 1997.
 4. R. C. Hilborn, Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers,
Oxford University Press 1994.
5. R. H. Shumway and D. S. Stoffer, Time Series Analysis and Its Applications, 3rd Edition, Springer
2011.
6. D. Sornette, Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences, Springer 2000.
7. M. Cross and H. Greenside, Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Non-equilibrium Systems,
Cambridge University Press 2009.
8. R. P. Sattoras, M. Rubi and A. D. Guilera (Eds), Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks,
Springer 2003.

18CN725 IOT FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 2-0-1-3

The explosive growth of the “Internet of Things” is changing our world and the rapid drop in price for
typical IoT components is allowing people to innovate new designs and products at home. In this first
class in the specialization you will learn the importance of IoT in society, the current components of
typical IoT devices and trends for the future. IoT design considerations, constraints and interfacing
between the physical world and your device will also be covered. You will also learn how to make design
trade-offs between hardware and software. We'll also cover key components of networking to ensure that
students understand how to connect their device to the Internet. Please note that this course does not
include discussion forums. The special focus will be on using IOT for disaster management applications,
IOT hardware and software development for disaster management.

. Introduction to IOT and disaster management, State the technological trends which have led to IoT ,
The impact of IoT on society, Define what an embedded system is in terms of its interface, IOT
components of an embedded system, Describe the interactions of embedded systems with the physical
world, The core hardware components most commonly used in IoT devices , Describe the interaction
between software and hardware in an IoT device, Describe the role of an operating system to support
software in an IoT device, Explain the use of networking and basic networking hardware, Describe the
structure of the Internet, Describe the meaning of a network protocol

TEXT BOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Vijay Madisetti, ArshdeepBahga, “Internet of Things: A Hands-On Approach”
2. WaltenegusDargie,ChristianPoellabauer, "Fundamentals of Wireless Sensor Networks:
Theory and Practice"
3. http://www.mait.com/assets/final-iot-report-revised-v4-(29_06_16).pdf
 4. Disaster Management Paperback – 2003 by Harsh K. Gupta

GENERAL ELECTIVES

18CN726 INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS 2-0-1-3

The need for data analysis – variables and data – graphs and distributions – measures of center and spread
– normal distribution – z-scores – correlation – functions –hypothesis testing – confidence interval and
errors – t-test – chi-square test – goodness of fit – test for independence – ANOVA – introduction to
design of experiments - random samples – sample statistics and population statistics – regression analysis
– regression models – method of least squares –data reduction – Time Series Analysis – AR models –
ARMA models – ARIMA models – Basics of nonlinear TSA.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES:
1. Basic skills in Statistics: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals. Cook, A., Netuveli, G. and Sheikh,
A.Class Publishing (London) (2004).
2. Basic Statistics: Understanding conventional methods and modern insights. Wilcox, R. R. Oxford
University Press (2009).
3. Basic Statistics for the behavioural sciences. 6th edition. Heiman, G. W. Wadsworth (2011).
4. Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting (Springer Texts in Statistics) 2nd Edition. Brockwell, P.
J. & Richard, A. D (1991).
5. Introduction to Engineering Statistics and Six Sigma. Allen, T. T. Springer – Verlag (London) (2006).
6. Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments: With Applications to Engineering and Science. 2nd
Edition.Mason, R. L., Gunst, R. F. and Hess, J. L. Wiley-Interscience (2003).
7. Time Series: Theory and Methods (Springer Series in Statistics) 2nd edition. Brockwell, P. J. &
Richard, A. D (1991).