2019 1st International Conference on

Unmanned Vehicle Systems-Oman (UVS)

‫المؤتمر الدولي الأول لأنظمة المركبات غير المأهولة‬
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, 5-7 Feb. 2019

Under the Patronage of

His Excellency Sheikh Salem Bin Mustahil Al-Mashani
Advisor at the Diwan of The Royal Court
‫حتت رعاية‬
‫ سامل بن مستهيل بن أمحد املعشين املوقر‬/‫معالي الشيخ‬
‫املستشار بديوان البالط السلطاني‬

Conference Technical Program

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 Workshops
Tuesday, 05th February 2019 (1st Floor, Exhibition Hall, SQU)
9:00 - 10:30 Workshop 1A (Room A)
11:00 – 12:00 Title: Drones: from Theory to Application
Prof. Mohamed Djemai, University of Valenciennes et Hainaut-Cambrésis,
Franc and Dr. Rabie Ben Atitallah, University of Galatasaray, Computer Science
Department, Turkey
9:00 - 10:30 Workshop 2A (Room B)
11:00 – 12:00 Title: Motion Control of Biomimetic Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Prof. Ahmed Chemori, LIRMM-CNRS/University of Montpellier, France
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch and Prayer (Faculty Club Restaurant)
13:30 - 15:00 Workshop 1B (Room A)
15:30 – 16:30 Title: Autonomous Platforms, Wireless Communication Networks and Field-
Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for UVSs
Dr. K.M Goher, Dr. S. Srivastava, Dr. E. Nurellari, University of Lincoln, UK
13:30 - 15:00 Workshop 2B (Room B)
15:30 – 16:30 Title: OpenDroneMap, the Beginner's Guide
Stephen V. Mather, GIS Manager, Cleveland Metroparks, USA
Pixel Shepherd & Direct Interhuman Pixel Transfusion @ OpenDroneMap
16:30 – 18:00 Tutorial 1 (Geomatics Engineering Lab, CoE, Block C, Ground Floor)
Title: A tutorial on ROS, “Robot Operating System”
Prof. Anis Koubaa , Prince Sultan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Thursday, 07th February 2019

14:30 - 17:00 Workshop 1C (ECE Meeting Room)
Title: Internet-of-Drones: From Theory to Deployment
Prof. Anis Koubaa , Prince Sultan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
14:30 – 17:00 Tutorial 2 (Seminar Room 223, CoE, Block C, Second Floor)
Title: A tutorial on use of Drones for Mapping Application
Ms. Khadija Abdulla Ali, UAV pilot and GIS consultant, Zanzibar
 Students’ Competitions

Tuesday, 05th February 2019 (Male Sport Complex, SQU)

9:00 - 10:30 Title: Aerial Vehicles
11:00 – 12:00 Category: University & College (Tertiary Institutions)
9:00 - 10:30 Title: Aerial Vehicles
11:00 – 12:00 Category: High Schools (Pre-University Institutions)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch and Prayer

Tuesday, 05th February 2019 (Exhibition Hall, SQU)

13:30 - 15:00 Title: Hovercraft Vehicles
15:30 – 16:30 Category: University & College (Tertiary Institutions)
13:30 - 15:00 Title: Hovercraft Vehicles
15:30 – 16:30 Category: High Schools (Pre-University Institutions)

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 Conference - Day 1

Wednesday, 6th February 2019 (Conference Hall, SQU)

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:05 Recitation of Holy Quran
09:05 – 09:15 SQU Address: Prof Amer Al Rawas, Deputy Vice Chancellor for AACS
09:15 - 09:25 Welcome Address by Prof Hadj Bourdoucen, the General Chair
09:25 - 09:55 Keynote Address
Title: Unmanned Vehicle Systems – Opportunity and Threat
John Kedar FInstRE, FRGS, CGeog(GIS),
Director International Engagement, Ordnance Survey, UK

09:55 - 10:20 Opening of Exhibition

10:20 - 10:40 Tea/Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:15 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS’s) Deployments in PDO: Current
Applications & Future Replications
Mohammed Al-Sulaimani & Naseer Al-Balushi , PDO
11:15 - 11:50 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: Recent Advances in Control of Underwater Vehicles: From Inspection
to Manipulation,
Prof. Ahmed Chemori, LIRMM-CNRS/University of Montpellier, France
11:50 - 12:25 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: Policy for Obtaining Security Clearance for Aerial Photographs & UAV
within Oman
Lt. Col. Yusuf Al-Nabhani, SO1 Geographic Place Names,
National Survey Authority, Oman

12:30 - 13:45 Lunch and Prayer (Faculty Club Annex)

14:00 - 14:35 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: Future Mobility – Moving Humanity Forward
Gary D West, Head of Future Mobility, Africa & Middle East, General Motors

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 Parallel Session # 1 Parallel Session # 2
Chair : Dr. Hassan Ouakad Chair: Dr. Riadh Zaier
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1 Floor, Conference Hall Annex, Room A 1 Floor, Conference Hall Annex, Room B
14:40 - 15:00 Automatic Fault Detection of Power Lines Drone Hacking with Raspberry-Pi 3 and WiFi
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) using UAV (Swinburne University of Pineapple: Security and Privacy Threats for the
Technology, Australia) Internet-of-Things (Edinburgh Napier University
United Kingdom)
15:00 - 15:20 Car Detection using Unmanned Aerial An Integrated Web-Based Approach for Near
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) Vehicles: Comparison between Faster R-CNN Real-Time Mission Monitoring (GEOMAR
and YOLOv3 (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research Kiel,
Arabia) Germany)
15:20 – 15:40 GPU-based Concurrent Multi-UAVs Path Flow A Classification Based Method for Target
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) Analysis using K-MST Algorithm (College of Detection (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Applied Sciences, Oman)
15:40 – 16:00 Design and Implementation of an Unmanned Yaw Control of an Unmanned Helicopter with
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) Surface Vehicle for Oil Spill Handling (Sultan Feedback Linearization (Sultan Qaboos
Qaboos University, Oman) University, Oman)

Conference Banquet
18:30 – 18:40 Welcome Remarks
18:40 – 19:00 Honoring Guests & Sponsors
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner

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 Conference - Day 2
Thursday, 7th February 2019 (Conference Hall, SQU)
08:30 – 09:10 Keynote Address
(30 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: FWIW (For what it's worth): The value of open data, open hardware,
and free and open source software to the Unmanned Vehicle
Ecosystem
Stephen V. Mather, GIS Manager, Cleveland Metroparks, USA
Pixel Shepherd & Direct Interhuman Pixel Transfusion @ OpenDroneMap
09:10 - 09:45 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: The Drones from Regulatory Aspects
Mubarak Ahmed Al-Farsi, Flight Safety Department, DGCAR – PACA
09:45 - 10:20 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: Common Operation Picture (COP) for Emergency Response and
Preparedness
Abdullah Al Tuwaiya, Petroleum Development Oman
10:20 - 10:50 Tea/Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:25 Invited Talk
(25 min + 10 min Q&A) Title: ICT Regulatory Aspects of UVS
Aisha Abdullah Al-Kalbani, Senior Specialist, Frequency Planning & Strategy
Department, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) - Oman
11:25 – 11:45 Plenary Session & Concluding Remarks

Parallel Session # 3 Parallel Session # 4

Chair : Dr. Jawhar Ghommam
1st Floor, Exhibition Hall, Room A
Veiled Shared key Generation for Intra-
11:50 – 12:10
Convoy Secret Communication Sessions (The
(15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Ohio State University, USA)
UAV Base Station Location Optimization for
12:10 – 12:30 Next Generation Wireless Networks: Overview
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) and Future Research Directions (University of
Economics and Technology, Turkey)
Compared and Performance Routing Protocol
12:30 – 12:50 in Flying Ad-Hoc Network (FANET) (Umm Al-
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) Qura University, Saudi Arabia)
Chair : Muhammed Al Syabi
1st Floor, Exhibition Hall, Room B
Design, Dynamics Modelling and Control of a H-
Shape Multi-rotor System for Indoor Navigation
(Taylor's University, Malaysia)
Parameter Identification of IPM Motor Reduced
Order Thermal Model for Traction Applications
(Military Technological College, Oman)
Tracking Control of Quadrotor Using Generalized
Dynamic Inversion with Constant-Proportional
Rate Reaching Law (King Abdulaziz University,
Saudi Arabia)

13:00 – 14:25 Lunch and Prayer (Faculty Club Annex)

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 Parallel Session # 5
Chair : Dr. Mostefa Mesbah
st
1 Floor, Exhibition Hall, Room A
14:30 - 14:50 Ethical Design Perspectives of Intelligent
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) UAVs (Gulf College, Oman)
14:50 - 15:10 Incorporating Unmanned Systems Ethics into
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) the Curriculum (University of Bahrian,
Bahrain)
15:10 - 15:30 Development of Magnetostrictive Harvester
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) (Sultan
Qaboos University, Oman)
15:30 - 15:50 Angular Position Control of Twin Rotor MIMO
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) System Using Generalized Dynamic Inversion
with Switching Surface (King Abdulaziz
University, Saudi Arabia)
15:50 - 16:10 Modeling of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
(15 min + 5 min Q&A) with Rotating Thrusters for Offshore Rig
Inspection (International College of
Engineering and Management, Oman)
Parallel Session # 6
Chair : Dr. Khaled Goher
st
1 Floor, Exhibition Hall, Room B
Self-Driving Military Vehicle Using Remote
Control Application (Military Technological
College, Oman)
Biometric Face Recognition Engine Starter
(Military Technological College, Oman)
Development and Optimization of Force-Driven
Harvester for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
(Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
Agribot: The Automatic Planting System (Dhofar
University, Oman)
Vehicle's Entry and Exit for People with Physical
Disabilities (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
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