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  • Dare To Dream 01
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  • Dare To Dream 05

The Identified challenges area of the Dare To Dream 1.0 contest are as follow:

Challenge Area
  1. Swarm of Micro UAVs
  2. Joints in Composite Structure
  3. Wearable Communication Technologies for Special Operations Soldiers
  4. Multi Legged Mobility
  5. Haemostatic Agents
  6. Miniaturization of unfolding mechanism for rocket lifting surfaces
  7. Open Category

The Identified challenges area of the Dare To Dream 2.0 contest are as follow:

Challenge Area
  1. Detection & Classification of Low Probability of Intercept Radar Signals For Electronic Support Systems.
  2. Materials & Technologies for Fire Suppression/Protection
  3. Eco-friendly Explosive Waste Management.
  4. Artificial Intelligence based detection of a person based on physiological parameters.
  5. Development of robotic arm for scooping / mechining of cured solid propellant (Shore ‘A’ hardness >= 70)
  6. Development of Neuromorphic Vision Sensors (Design, Fabrication of Sensors and Image Reconstruction Algorithms)
  7. Underwater MEMS Acoustic Vector Sensor
  8. Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor Interrogator
  9. Data Driven Health Monitoring And Early Warning Diagnostic Tools for Aero Gas Turbine Engines.
  10. Low Powered Tethered UAV
  11. Open Category: Exploring the Unthinkable and Unimaginable

The Identified challenges area of the Dare To Dream 3.0 contest are as follow:

Challenge Area
  1. Remote Detection & Protection from CBRNE Agents
  2. Underwater Communication System
  3. Smart Batteries and Self-Healing Batteries for Military Applications
  4. Defence on Cloud (Block Chain Technology, IOT, ML, AI)
  5. Cognitive Technologies for Sensing and Adaptation
  6. Shockwave Applications for Defence
  7. Innovative Ideas for Anti Drone
  8. Ideas for Soldiers as a System
  9. Non-Line of Sight Optical Imaging
  10. Open Category: Exploring the Unthinkable and Unimaginable

The Identified challenges area of the Dare To Dream 4.0 contest are as follow:

Challenge Area
  1. Digital Twining of Human Organs
  2. Plasmonic Applications for Defence
  3. Collaborative Dual Arm Manipulation for Robots
  4. Target Seeking and Proximity Sensing Technologies
  5. Quantum Algorithms for Image Processing and Machine Learning Applications
  6. Countermeasures for Drone and Swarm of Drones
  7. Directed Energy Technologies
  8. Cognitive Listening Device
  9. Bonding Technologies between Composite and Metals for High Temperature Applications
  10. Open Category: Exploring the Unthinkable and Unimaginable

The Identified challenges area of the Dare To Dream 5.0 contest are as follow:

Challenge Area
  1. Development of ML/AI module for rocket motor design
  2. Measures/solutions of Internet intervention in emergency/disater /civil unrest/critical situation
  3. Innovative applications of blockchain
  4. Brain computer interface for deciphering intention
  5. Anomaly and point of interest detection in streming data (No prior data distribution)
  6. Space debry removal
  7. Large metallic object proximity detection using permanent magnet array
  8. Non-Destructive Evaluations technique(s) for ceramics matrix composites
  9. Compact Solid State Based non-lethal Active Denial System (ADS)
  10. Open Category: Exploring the Unthinkable and Unimaginable
Challenge Area for Startup / Micro & Small Enterprises category :
  1. Firefighting Helper Robots
  2. Ensuring Data Privacy using Searchable Symmetric Encryption
  3. Use of Virtual Machines in Cyber Security
  4. Pilot safety for helicopter related emergency situation
  5. Metamaterials base cloak for evading detection/recognition
  6. Quantum sensing and its application for Magnetic, Mass and Radar
  7. Energy autonomy for autonomous surface platform
  8. Contact less power transfer using resonant coils in underwater
  9. Optical Beam Forming Network for Active phased Array Applications
  10. Open Category: Exploring the Unthinkable and Unimaginable
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