Keynote Speaker I:
"Title:Compressive Sensing for AeroSpace Applications"
Abstract
Compressive sensing offers an efficient framework for acquiring and reconstructing signals that are sparse or compressible in a suitable domain. This approach is particularly attractive for aerospace applications, where sensing systems must operate under strict constraints related to bandwidth, power consumption, memory, computational resources, and payload weight. This contribution examines the principles and potential of compressive sensing in areas such as radar and synthetic aperture radar imaging, structural health monitoring, remote sensing, satellite communications, and onboard diagnostic systems. By enabling signal reconstruction from a reduced number of measurements, compressive sensing can decrease data-acquisition requirements and transmission loads while preserving essential information. The integration of model-based reconstruction algorithms and artificial intelligence can further improve recovery accuracy, robustness to noise, and real-time performance. The main implementation challenges—including measurement-matrix design, computational complexity, hardware limitations, and validation under operational conditions—are also discussed. The analysis highlights how compressive sensing can support lighter, faster, and more energy-efficient aerospace sensing and instrumentation systems.
Bio-Sketch
PASQUALE DAPONTE was born on March 7, 1957. He obtained his bachelor's degree and master's degree "cum laude" in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from University of Naples, Italy. He is Full Professor of Electronic Measurements at University of Sannio - Benevento. He is Past Chair of the Italian Association on Electrical and Electronic Measurements, and Past President of IMEKO.He is member of: Working Group of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Committee N°10 Subcommittee of the Waveform Measurements and Analysis Committee, IMEKO Technical Committee TC-4 “Measurements of Electrical Quantities”, Editorial Board of Measurement Journal, Acta IMEKO and of Sensors. He is Associate Editor of IET Science Measurement & Technology Journal. He is member of the Board of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Naples Charter. He has organised some national or international meetings in the field of Electronic Measurements and European co-operation.He has published more than 390 scientific papers in journals and at national and international conferences on the following subjects: Measurements and Drones, ADC and DAC Modelling and Testing, Digital Signal Processing, Distributed Measurement Systems.
Pasquale Daponte
Professor of University of Sannio
(IEEE Life Fellow Member, Past President of IMEKO,Past Chair of Italian Association for Electrical and Electronic Measurements)
Keynote Speaker II:
"Title: Navigation Control of Self-Driving Vehicles and Mobile Robots"
Abstract
Navigation control is an important task of any self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. The vehicles/robots must track follow waypoints from the starting point to the destination. These waypoints can be defined by the drivers/users or can be determined automatically from a global path planning based on the desired objective functions. During actual motion, the vehicles/robots require navigation control to steer the vehicles/robots to the next waypoints. The vehicles/robots must be able to make decisions to wait, avoid, overtake or follow the facing/preceding vehicles/robots. The obstacles must be avoided. The traffic rules must be obeyed. The talk will explain the research and algorithms on navigation control of self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. Navigation control of several types of vehicle and mobile robots, including cars, bicycles, forklift, flying robot, underwater robot, spherical robot and others will be highlighted.
Bio-Sketch
Manukid Parnichkun is currently the vice president for academic and research (VPAR) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and a professor at the Mechatronics and Machine Intelligence at the same institute. He received B.Eng. from Mechanical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University in 1991, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Precision Machinery Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1996 respectively. He joined Asian Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1996. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001, and professor in 2016. He supervised and graduated 25 doctoral students, and more than 200 master students. He was the founding committee of the Thai Robotics Society (TRS) and later became editor-in-chief of the society journal. He was elected to be the president of the Thai Robotics Society during 2003-2005. He organized and chaired several conferences including IEEE ICIT, IEEE ROBIO and several robot competitions including Thailand Intelligent Vehicle Challenge, BicyRobo Thailand Championship, ABU Robocon Thailand Championship. His research interests are Mechatronics, Robotics, Control, and Measurement.
Manukid Parnichkun
Professor of Asian Institute of Technology