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1st International Conference on Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Oman (IEEE)

UVS-Oman 2019

Feb. 5 – 7, 2019

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

http://uvsc.om
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The 1st Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS-Oman 2019) Conference is organized by the College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). This three-day event aims to bring together leading academicians, researchers, engineers, industrials, and regulators to increase awareness, share views, and exchange ideas and field experiences on numerous aspects of Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS). This first event organized by SQU, is expected to provide an opportunity to network researchers, practitioners, students, and hobbyists to enrich interdisciplinary UVS and related platforms and present the most recent innovations, trials, future trends, applications, concerns as well as challenges and solutions developed and applied in the various fields of applications. A number of workshops, students’ projects competition, and an exhibition on UVS are scheduled during the event.

***************** PUBLICATION ***************

Accepted papers that comply to IEEE requirements will be published in IEEEXplore.

***************** MAIN TOPICS ***************

The range of targeted topics is very broad, but priority is given to subjects on real world applications; including: research, industry, business, and education. Based on this, prospective authors are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations, demonstrations, and poster contributions on any engineering topic relevant to UVS. These include but not limited to the following:

· Airspace control and management
· Algorithm & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
· Autonomy
· Anti-drone systems
· Business opportunities
· Certification and Standardization
· Energy Efficient UVS
· GIS and mapping
· Guidance, Navigation and Control
· Innovative UVS applications
· Integration of UVS systems
· Intelligent Materials for UVS
· Networked UVS and Communications (V2V, Satellites, etc.)
· Open Source Software applications
· Operations and maintenance
· Payloads
· Regulations and environmental challenges
· Safety
· Security
· Simulation
· Smart sensing and avoidance
· Training and education
· Transportation in UVS
· UVS Applications (Disaster Relief, Tourism, Telecom, Agriculture, Surveillance & Border Patrol, Cultural Heritage Preservation, Filmmaking, Remote Assessment, etc.)
· UVS Embedded Architectures
· UVS Reliability and performance
· UVS Transportation Management

***************** PARALLEL ACTIVITIES **********

In parallel with the conference event, workshops will be organized on a number of specialized subjects for UVS developers and end-users. In addition, an exhibition of UVS products will be presented as well as a student competition.