On-Campus Workshop
Signal Processing for High-Precision Navigation and Surveillance
Eligibility
B.Tech (Graduated students preferred, but 3rd and 4th year students are also eligible to apply, seats subject to availability)
Prerequisites
NIL.
However, interest in applied math and some prior exposure to navigation and surveillance will help.
Dr. RADHAKANT PADHI, FNAE
Professor, Higher Academic Grade (HAG)
Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru, India, 560 012
E-mail: padhi@iisc.ac.in
Mode: Offline (IISc Campus)
Date : 6 to 11 July 2026
Accommodation availability on first come first serve payment basis.
Objectives
- Provide in-depth knowledge of signal processing for navigation, including Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS/GNSS). It will also include their error characteristics and mitigation strategies. Applications will include Missiles, UAVs, and Robots.
- Understanding of radar fundamentals and radar signal processing, both conventional and AI-based techniques.
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology and associated signal processing for weather-insensitive high-resolution surveillance and environmental imaging. This will include emerging drone-borne SAR platforms.
- An exclusive lecture on the detection of Low-Altitude, Slow-Speed, Small (LSS) targets using radars, which is a niche technology.
- Introduce state-estimation theory and practice using Kalman filtering and its variants, focusing on INS-GNSS integration, nonlinear estimation, and reliable operation in uncertain environments, as well as present methodologies for multi-target tracking and multi-sensor data fusion to enable robust surveillance, situational awareness, and coordinated sensing.
- Demonstrate the role of artificial intelligence in aerial perception and estimation, including recurrent learning approaches and modern SLAM techniques such as 3D Gaussian Splatting for autonomous navigation.
- Highlight real-world aerospace and defense applications through case studies discussion, including UAV navigation, drone-based sensing, and tracking systems.
- Community Building: Foster collaboration among researchers and industry professionals.
- Professional Development: Equip participants with cutting-edge theory, simulation and case studies in relevant applications, aiding workforce development.
Speakers
Prof. Suresh Sundaram, Professor AE and Chair, Cyber-Physical System, IISc, Bangalore. His research interests are in Intelligent flight control system, Autonomous Systems, Applied Game Theory, Computer Vision and Robotics, Machine learning and AI.
Prof. Vijay Kumar, Honorary Professor, ECE Dept., IISc, Bangalore, has expertise in algebraic coding theory and related areas, with application to wireless communication, data storage and satellite navigation systems.
Dr. Tapan Mishra, Sisir Radar, Kolkata, was the former Director of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Space Applications Centre (SAC) and Physical Research Laboratory (PRL). He is a global expert in Imaging Radar SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). His research involves SAR design, signal processing, motion compensation of airborne SARs, NF antenna measurement, MW measurements, data compression and single pixel classification of hyperspectral imager.
Dr. Megha Maheswari, URSC, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bengaluru. She is an expert in Navic broadcast parameter generation and ionosphere modelling.
Dr. A. Vengadarajan (Retd.), LRDE, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has an excellent hold on Radar Systems in general.
Mr. Senthil Rangarajan, LRDE, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has an expertise in conventional radar signal processing.
Dr. R. S. Narasimhan, LRDE, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has an expert in AI Based radar signal processing.
Dr. R. Rajesh, CABS, DRDO, Bengaluru, is an expert in Information theory, Radar, Energy harvesting, Multiple access channels joint source channel coding.
Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra works as a Senior Fellow at the US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, USA. He is an established expert on Low-Altitude, Slow-Speed and Small (LSS) Targets using Radars. He is also a renowned author of several publications and a book in this domain.
Dr. P. K. Menon, Optimal Synthesis Inc., USA is a renowned expert in optimal control and state estimation techniques and has solved numerous practical problems for guidance and control of aerospace vehicles as well as target estimation.
| Course fee per participant | Professional | Students | ||
| Industry* / R&D labs | Institutes /Universities | PhD. | MTech/BTech /Project Staff | |
| Until 25 Jun 2026 | 30,000 INR | 24,000 INR | 18,000 INR | 12,000 INR |
| After 25 Jun 2026 | 35,000 INR | 30,000 INR | 22,000 INR | 15,000 INR |
| Note: (1) 18% GST will be additional. |
| (2) *Professionals from DPIIT registered start-ups will get 30% discount |