Author: Arvind Maram
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Conflict Management – Kautilya’s four Upayas!
A good friend reminded me of the terms Sama, dana, bheda , danda during a recent conversation. According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra these are four methods or Upayas of dealing with conflicts or in general people related problems. He says that these Upayas can be used individually or as a combination. They mean, Sama – conciliation…
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Assuring Quality
I am quoting the following statement from Madhav S. Phadke’s book Quality Engineering using Robust Design “The ideal quality a customer can receive is that every product delivers the target performance each time the product is used, under all intendent operating conditions, and throughout the product’s intended life, with no harmful side effects.” Though one…
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Experiences with Gen AI for Embedded Software Development
Here are my observations with Gen AI for embedded software development 1. This might be good when starting a new project. It’s a pain to integrate with an already existing code, particularly when there are multiple external interactions and if one is using vendor provided IDEs, BSPs and libraries. 2. The free version of ChatGPT…
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Reducing TTM while tracking ROI, NPV throughout the lifecycle
This is a chart that I prepared by combining the SE lifecycle model and the Return Map diagram. The reason I did this is because Systems Engineering focus on costs, schedules and quality aspects of the lifecycle but doesn’t emphasis enough on the time value which helps in the decision-making process. Return Maps on the…
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System Identification and PID Control experiments
This is another experiment I did to try auto tuning of the PID controller. I used Matlab System Identification toolbox to estimate the transfer function of the System of Interest (SoI). If you notice, right now for the system structure I assembled and the gains I initialized, the actual state never reaches the desired level,…
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The “Atom-Jr” project
This is a hobby project my kids and me started around Apr’2023. The trigger was to help their mom move an LPG cylinder from point A to point B with ease. The immediate solution was to use a wheeled cylinder stand, which pretty much their mom solved by herself, but curiosity creeped in, and ideas…
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Pattern Recognition in Time Series Data
From the same home energy monitoring experiment data, attempting to identify patterns. This too is completely by Gen-AI. By the way now the data is being injected into a PostgreSQL database directly instead of a CSV file. I did this for better managing the volume of data. All this is on my laptop so not…
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MBSE (Arcadia Method) driven System Architecting
During the month of May’24 I had the opportunity to attend the INCOSE’s MBSE & AI Summit in Hyderabad. It was a very humbling experience for me to listen to some of the distinguished speakers like Dr. Ramki Raman and Mr. Dave Snowden. Amongst many, one key take away was about the MBSE tool Capella…