BHIMAVARAM: A young student pursuing his final year engineering in the SRKR Engineering College here has developed a device which is useful for people suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) like Stephen Hawking and claimed to have got patent from the U.S.
Rajasekhar Mutukuri has done many projects and the first and foremost is the Brain Computer Interface (BCI). According to studies, nearly 15% people in India are suffering from ALS and there is no cure for it. The budding scientist has developed a gadget which is similar to a helmet. When a person wears it, he can make what he thinks happen without actually executing the task. For example, if he wishes to switch on a light, it turns on automatically.
“I made further research and this gadget lets us know about what is actually happening in our mind when we are sleeping. Through this, we can know our dreams and depict the time duration in the form of graphical representation,” said Mr. Rajasekhar.
For this project, he received patents on ALDC algorithm which converts the graphical representation of dreams in the form of text. This algorithm serves in easy analysis of dreams which are obtained in the forms of graphs.
The second project on which he worked was Remote Patient Monitoring System. In remote areas, people suffering from diseases are unable to receive good treatment due to lack of hospitals, money and other reasons. He designed a user-friendly device which acts as a bridge between the patients and the doctors. It works even in the areas where there is no net accessibility because it works via orbital space satellite. It conducts 24 tests like blood, ECG, EMG, eye and others through blood sample and will churn out 35 reports. This tells us how accurately the device works in recognising the diseases. The obtained information can be directly viewed by doctors wherever the patient may be.
The third one is Smart Glasses. This is widely used for people who do not know many languages. This device looks like spectacles in which a mini computer is incorporated at the corner. This devise has language conversion tool like Telugu to English, Spanish to English and so on with the support of a command. Mr. Rajasekhar claimed that it could convert 97 languages with voice command.
Mr. Rajasekhar, who hails from Valaparla village of Martur mandal in Prakasam district, has shown interest in science from his childhood. His parents Venugopal and Prabhavathi are school teachers.
According to Mr. Rajasekhar, a seven-member core team of the research and development wing was selected by HP Company through instructables.com online test about three years ago and given the task to develop different devices.
On achieving patents as well as developing two more devices, senior IAS officer Udayalakshmi, Principal of the College Parthasarathi Varma and Management felicitated Rajasekhar.
