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CASE students to represent Pakistan n Robocup 2015: Dr Khaliq

IslamabadStudents of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) will represent Pakistan in the Robocup 2015 contest this year to be held in China, said CASE President Dr. Abdul Khaliq.In an exclusive interview, he said that the robotics contest will be organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). “After

By Obaid Abrar Khan
May 16, 2015
Islamabad
Students of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) will represent Pakistan in the Robocup 2015 contest this year to be held in China, said CASE President Dr. Abdul Khaliq.
In an exclusive interview, he said that the robotics contest will be organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). “After going through the nationwide competition, our team of undergraduate electrical engineering students represented Pakistan in the ‘ABU ROBOCON 2010’ (Cairo, Egypt), 2011 (Bangkok, Thailand), 2012 (Hong Kong) and 2013 (Vietnam). We are currently getting ready for the event to be held in Indonesia,” he said.
He said that the CASE also represented Pakistan in the Robocup in 2014 in Brazil — an international robotics event which is held every year and teams from around the world participate in it. Robot teams play soccer against other teams in this event. The robot team winner of Robocup in 2050 will play against the world soccer champion. “Our students have qualified for the Robocup 2015 this year to be held in China,” he said and added that the CASE has the honour of representing Pakistan in the ABU ROBOCON for many years.
The CASE president said that Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering was established in 2001 by Engineering Education Trust. He said over time “we have developed a unique ‘Industry-Academia Model’ that tends to bring in new application-based research into the classroom that attracts people from the industry who wish to refresh their skills at the postgraduate level. Also at the undergraduate level, we have applied the same model and the outstanding result has been our consistent performance in various university-based engineering competitions.”
Dr. Abdul Khaliq said that the electrical engineering students have been winners of PASHA ICT R&D Award for ‘Best Student Project’ and several university level competitions like National Design, Build and Fly Competition’ (GIK Institute), EMCOT, COMPPEC, Mobilink Super Engineer, SENTEC, National Engineering Robotics Competitions and Robo Sprint.
He said that our Business School students have done equally well in various university level competitions. Our BBA students have been winners of CASE SPARK, and NASCON. Also, students of CASE Business School have the honour of winning INVENT, the biggest Entrepreneurial Challenge Competition of Pakistan organized by IBA, Karachi where the prize money was Rs1,425,000. Additionally, our Business School students have finished among top five teams of Prime Minister’s Entrepreneurship Challenge organised by NUST.
Dr Abdul Khaliq said that typical fingerprint recognition systems are very slow in giving results when dealing with large data basis. Our faculty members have developed a state of the art fingerprint matching algorithm along with a novel scalable fingerprint matching processor that can perform Multimillion Matches per Second. Such a system has tremendous applications in personal identification and is currently available for use. Such a system can be used for example by NADRA for voter identification and banks for customer identifications.
The CASE president said that most ECG machines presently installed do not have capabilities like high resolution signal acquisition, remote monitoring, real-time data storage and patient database management. Patients at remote locations can have normal and high resolution digital ECG with the cardiologist sitting in another city. Different algorithms have been built into the machine for self-diagnosing a patient for different arrhythmic abnormalities as well as early detection of risks associated with fatal arrhythmias which can lead to sudden cardiac death. Such a system has tremendous potential for country like Pakistan where specialized health care is not available in remote areas. The team is now working on Intra-cardiac Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Display (ISAAD) System.
“CASE faculty members have developed a positioning system for satellite antennas that are mounted on top of mobile vans,” he said.
He said that CARE has also developed Pakistan first Net Centric System that helps safeguard the airspace of Pakistan. This system digitizes sensors of different origins and integrates them in a network. CARE proprietary devices connect all the nodes in the network using multiple communication technologies. The system is aided with decision aiding tools and is currently deployed in Pakistan.
Dr Abdul Khaliq said that realizing the importance of Industry Academia relationship, Centre for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) was established in 2003 by the same team that established CASE. CASE and CARE now coexist in the same building displaying a unique model of industry academia partnership and collaboration.
He said that CASE has applied for the Degree Awarding Institution (DAI) status in partnership with Sir Syed Memorial Society (SSMS) by the name of “Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology”. Our case is currently with the federal cabinet and we hope to transition into Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology in the very near future.