NCBL

university of alberta

Sarthak Antal

 

About Me

I am a senior undergraduate student at the Electronics and Communication Department of Netaji Subhas University of Technology (formerly NSIT, under Delhi University). Currently, I am working as a summer intern at the Neuromuscular Control and Biomechanics Lab at the University of Alberta under the prestigious MITACS internship program.

Supervisor

Dr. Hossein Rouhani

Research Interests

  • Brain-Computer Interface 

  • Embedded Systems

  • Control Systems

  • Analog Electronics

  • VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits)

  • Neurosciences

  • Medical Electronics

Projects

University of Alberta

  • Developing a prototype of the Brain-Computer Interface System enabling individuals suering from degenerative muscle disorders to perform their daily tasks and activities eciently.

Texas Instruments, Centre for Embedded Product Design, NSUT

  • Direction Sensitive LED Spinning Top

    The prototype model developed established a proof of concept that Earth’s Magnetic Field can be used to create a clean and sustainable source of energy. The device could produce pulses of voltage when the top spins and these pulses were used as an indicator to detect the direction of motion.

  • Persistence of Vision

    An embedded system was designed to examine and demonstrate the concepts, limitations, and advantages of the persistence of vision of the human eye. The device has since been also used to illustrate the concepts of multiplexing, Charlieplexing, and persistence of vision to students and faculty across the state.

  • Electronic Birthday Blowout Candles

    The device is an electronically re-configurable birthday blowout candle set. The age can be electronically set and then accordingly a set of candles glow. The LEDs installed as candles turn o when the user blows them o in a similar way as the birthday candles are blown out. The device was tested and then handed over to the ocials of a startup for mass manufacturing.

  • Levitating Doll

    The prototype developed illustrated the concepts and principles of levitation of a small-sized object (doll) using the concept of PID controller. The force that opposes gravity is the magnetic field produced by an appropriately winded inductor which enables the doll to levitate and stabilise itself at a desired distance from the inductor.

  • Current Measurement using the Magnetic Hanger

    A prototype circuit developed which measures the current of a circuit. Unlike the conventional multimeters in which the main circuit is broken and then the current is measured across the fragmented ends, the device measures current without breaking the main circuit.

Awards and Honours

  • Globalink Research Internship Mitacs Awardee

  • Secured a position in the top 0.2% in the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced), India

  • Awarded the National Talent Search Examination Scholarship, India

  • Indian Regional Mathematics Olympiad Scholar