BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240223T173633Z UID:87397B81-985F-4A5A-8E8D-44189307326A DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240223T100000 DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER: Prof Giovanni Muscato\, University of Catania\, ITALY and\, Member IMEKO TC17\n\nPRESENTATION: Nestled at the confluence of nat ure grandeur and human civilization\, beaches command an influential prese nce that resonates throughout the environment\, society\, and culture. How ever\, climate change and pollution overhang the beach's health and need t o be properly dealt with. Proactive measures involve education\, responsib le waste management\, sustainable infrastructure\, and environmental regul ations\, while reactive ones focus on immediate response and cleanup effor ts. Nevertheless\, continuous monitoring and cleaning are challenging due to various factors such as beach characteristics\, hidden waste\, weather conditions and\, consequently\, high costs. To overcome such challenges\, this paper proposes an autonomous system for beach cleaning adopting an In telligent Hierarchical Cyber-Physical System (IHCPS) approach and Informat ion and Communication Technologies. The proposed beach waste management (B eWastMan) solution integrates an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the beach aer ial surveillance and monitoring\, a ground station for data processing\, a nd an Unmanned Ground Vehicle to collect and sort waste autonomously. The research findings contribute to the development of innovative and fully au tomated approaches in beach waste management and demonstrate the feasibili ty and effectiveness of the BeWastMan IHCPS through a real case study\, de veloped in the frame of the BIOBLU project.\n\nPRESENTER: Giovanni Muscato (Senior Member\, IEEE) received the Electrical Engineering degree from th e University of Catania\, Catania\, Italy\, in 1988. After completing grad uation\, he was with the Centro di Studi sui Sistemi\, Turin\, Italy. In 1 990\, he joined the DIEEI\, University of Catania\, where he is currently a full-time Professor in robotics and automatic control. Since 2018\, he h as been the Director of the Department. His current research interests inc lude service robotics and the cooperation between ground and flying robots . He was the coordinator of the EC project Robovolc and he is the local co ordinator of several national and European projects in robotics. He is the author of more than 300 papers in scientific journals and conference proc eedings and three books in the fields of control and robotics. He is with the Board of Trustees of the Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) Associat ion. For more information visit the link ([https://www.muscato.eu](https:/ /enotice.mmsend.com/link.cfm?r=wc5_M6RKRS7s1enAguiB-g~~&pe=vcCIoaysgfeqs2o zcr9CSu_onMD1JBfEdopMgu8Gt_iGWy51Pj-AJiBcll8xZeYCEw3z98BeWN0l6AyqsrMXXA~~& t=R1rdA8JtAnPHGlv5RNY-hA~~)).\n\nFree Webinar to all\n\nCo-sponsored by: R obert Scolli\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/407709 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/407709 ORGANIZER:ztaqvi@gmail.com SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:Webinar on An Intelligent Hierarchical Cyber-Physical System for Be ach Waste Management: URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/407709 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="yiv7523053361MsoNormal" align="cent er"><strong><span lang="EN-US">SPEAKER</span></strong><strong>:&nbsp\;</st rong><strong>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</strong><span lang="EN-US">Prof Giovanni Musca to</span><span lang="EN-US">\, University of Catania\, ITALY and</span><sp an lang="EN-US">\,&nbsp\;</span><span lang="EN-US">Member IMEKO TC17</span ><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p class="yiv7523053361MsoNormal"><strong>P RESENTATION:&nbsp\; </strong>Nestled at the confluence of nature grandeur and human civilization\, beaches command an influential presence that reso nates throughout the environment\, society\, and culture. However\, climat e change and pollution overhang the beach<span lang="EN-US">'s</span>&nbsp \;health and need to be properly dealt with. Proactive measures involve ed ucation\, responsible waste management\, sustainable infrastructure\, and environmental regulations\, while reactive ones focus on immediate respons e and cleanup efforts. Nevertheless\, continuous monitoring and cleaning a re challenging due to various factors such as beach characteristics\, hidd en waste\, weather conditions and\, consequently\, high costs. To overcome such challenges\, this paper proposes an autonomous system for beach clea ning adopting an Intelligent Hierarchical Cyber-Physical System (IHCPS) ap proach and Information and Communication Technologies. The proposed beach waste management (BeWastMan) solution integrates an Unmanned Aerial Vehicl e for the beach aerial surveillance and monitoring\, a ground station for data processing\, and an Unmanned Ground Vehicle to collect and sort waste autonomously. The research findings contribute to the development of inno vative and fully automated approaches in beach waste management and demons trate the feasibility and effectiveness of the BeWastMan IHCPS&nbsp\;<span lang="EN-US">through</span>&nbsp\;a real case study\, developed in the fr ame of the BIOBLU projec<span lang="EN-US">t</span>.</p>\n<p><strong>PRESE NTER</strong><span lang="EN-US">:&nbsp\;</span>Giovanni Muscato (Senior Me mber\, IEEE) received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Universit y of Catania\, Catania\, Italy\, in 1988. After completing graduation\, he was with the Centro di Studi sui Sistemi\, Turin\, Italy. In 1990\, he jo ined the DIEEI\, University of Catania\, where he is currently a full-time Professor in robotics and automatic control. Since 2018\, he has been the Director of the Department. His current research interests include servic e robotics and the cooperation between ground and flying robots. He was th e coordinator of the EC project Robovolc and he is the local coordinator o f several national and European projects in robotics. He is the author of more than 300 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and three books in the fields of control and robotics. He is with the Board o f Trustees of the Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) Association. For mo re information visit the link (<a href="https://enotice.mmsend.com/link.cf m?r=wc5_M6RKRS7s1enAguiB-g~~&amp\;pe=vcCIoaysgfeqs2ozcr9CSu_onMD1JBfEdopMg u8Gt_iGWy51Pj-AJiBcll8xZeYCEw3z98BeWN0l6AyqsrMXXA~~&amp\;t=R1rdA8JtAnPHGlv 5RNY-hA~~" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www. muscato.eu</a>).</p>\n<p>Free Webinar to all</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR