Prof. Subhas Mukhopadhyay

As per the https://www.drones.gov.au, the drone industry is expected to create thousands of jobs and contribute significantly to the Australian economy. The Australia commercial drone market size was estimated at USD 772 million in 2023 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.3% from 2024 to 2030. Performance of drones are significantly affected due to weather elements of the environment, such as wind and rain. This can limit their capacity to fly, landing and make it challenging to get precise data. Moreover, drones currently have a limited operating range and data collection capacity due to their short battery lives. The advancement of sensing technologies, embedded systems, wireless communication technologies, nano-materials, miniaturization, vision sensing and processing speed makes it possible to enhance the performance of drones. This seminar will present recent research and developmental activities on interfacing different sensors and sensing system along with machine visions embedded in drones at Macquarie University. A few current project activities of MQ Drone Lab will be presented. Time permits, a visit of the MQDrone Lab (50 WR) will be arranged.

Biography:

Subhas holds a B.E.E. (gold medalist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has over 34 years of teaching, industrial and research experience. Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is the Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Mechatronics, robotics and drones etc. He has supervised over 60 postgraduate students and over 180 Honours students. He has examined over 80 postgraduate theses.

He has been co-inventor of 12 patents and published over 450 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, co-authored ten books and sixty two book chapters and edited eighteen conference proceedings. He has also edited forty five books with Springer-Verlag and thirty five journal special issues. He has organized over 25 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 440 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures. As per Scholargoogle, his total citation is 22896 and h-index is 76.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India). He is a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors journal. He is also an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements and IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME). He is EiC of the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems (https://sciendo.com/journal/ijssis ). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2022. He chairs the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society NSW chapter.

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Address:Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Balaclave Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2109