UMPSA leads AEROGROUND research to develop Autonomous Aero-Ground System for national resilience

PEKAN, 6 October 2025 – Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer and Principal Research Fellow at the Advanced Industrial Technology Centre, Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Muhammad Aizzat Zakaria from Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), successfully secured the 2025 Long-Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) worth RM1.4 million to lead a high-impact research project entitled ‘AEROGROUND: Investigation of Autonomous Aero-Ground Robot for Surveillance and Reconnaissance – Artificial Intelligence Driven Navigation with Secure Edge Computing Integration’.

This research focuses on the development of an integrated autonomous land and aerial robotic system for monitoring, tracking, and response purposes towards national security threats.