Biography

Vatsanai Jaiton (Oh) was born in Yasothon, Thailand, in 1989. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Bio-inspired Robotics and Neural Engineering laboratory (BRAIN Lab), School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand.
He received his B.Eng. degree in instrumentation engineering with second-class honors from the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand in 2015.

Research Interests

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Autonomous Robots, Service and Inspection Robots, Neural Control for Navigation and Exploration, Neural Control for Aerial Robotics, Embodied AI and neurorobotics, Neural Dynamics, Learning and Plasticity, and Machine Learning for Robotics.

Academic Background

2018 – now Ph.D. student at the Bio-inspired Robotics and Neural Engineering Laboratory (BRAIN Lab), School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand

2011 – 2015 B.Eng. degree in instrumentation engineering with second-class honors from the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

2002 – 2008 High School at Mahachanachai Wittayakom School, Yasothon, Thailand

Publications

T. Phetpoon, V. Jaiton, K. Rothomphiwat, M. Manawakul, P. Chirathanyanon, P. Ritmetee, P. Manoonpong Multimodal Obstacle Detection and Adaptive Neural Control for Autonomous Drones, The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), accepted

Jaiton, V., Jadhav, P. D., Rothomphiwat, K., Phetpoon, T., Tarapongniwat, K., Manoonpong, P. (2025) An Integrated Adaptive System for On-Pipe Landing and Adherence of Autonomous Inspection Drones, IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) 2025, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10871060.

Jaiton, V., Manoonpong, P. (2025). Neural Chaotic Dynamics for Adaptive Exploration Control of an Autonomous Flying Robot. In: From Animals to Animats 17. SAB 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71533-4_19. (pdf)

Jaiton, V., Rothomphiwat, K., Phetpoon, T., Manawakul, M., Manoonpong, P. (2024) An Integrated Adaptive Control System for Obstacle Detection and Online Speed Adaptation of Autonomous Drones, IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) 2024, Ha Long, Vietnam, 2024, pp. 1355-1356, doi: 10.1109/SII58957.2024.10417272. (pdf)

Mingchinda, N., Jaiton, V., Leung, B., Manoonpong, P. (2023) Leg-body coordination strategies for obstacle avoidance and narrow space navigation of multi-segmented, legged robots, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2023.1214248 (link) (JIF= 3.1, SCI, Q2) (videos)

Jaitona, V., Manoonpong, P. (2023) Neuro-Lorenz Oscillator with Bias Adaptation for Adaptive Searching and Exploring Behaviors of Flying Systems. Proceedings of The 11th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2023). 2023, p. 113-114, DOI: https://doi.org/10.18910/92293 (pdf)

Mingchinda, N.; Jaiton, V.; Leung, B.; and Manoonpong, P. (2022) Neural Body Bending Control with Temporal Delays for Millipede-Like Turning Behaviour of a Multi-Segmented, Legged Robot, From Animals to Animats 16. SAB 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 52-63 (EI), DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-16770-6_5 (pdf)

Jaiton, V., Rothomphiwat, K., Ebeid, E.S. and Manoonpong, P. (2022) Neural Control and Online Learning for Speed Adaptation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Frontiers in Neural Circuits, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2022.839361 (JIF = 3.492, SJR = 1.91, SCIE, Q1) (video)(video summary)

Jaiton, V., Manoonpong, P. (2021) Chaotic Neural Oscillator for Navigation and Exploration of Autonomous Drones, Proceedings of The 9.5th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.18910/84868

Social Activities

2022 – now Project Leader of a rural community development project, Developing Community-Based Joint Production and Network Marketing, supported by Equitable Education Fund (EEF), in Yasothon, Thailand

2019 – now Consultant & coordinator of Ban Kutphankhiao Youth Development Club to empower and support youth to a bright future, in Yasothon, Thailand

2020 – 2021 Team Leader of food and drink transportation management for homecare/home isolation COVID-19 patients of Ramathibodi (Chakri) Hospital, Samutprakarn, Thailand

Experiences

Research Assistant at VISTEC (July– August 2018)

• Designed and made an exoskeleton suit mockup for the greeting with Her Royal Highness, Princess Sirindhorn

Maintenance Engineer (Instrument and Control) at SCG Chemicals, (August 2015 - June 2018)

• Maintained and improved machine/process performance in the field of instrumentation and control systems in petrochemical plant

TFT Campus Leader (KMITL) at Teach for Thailand, (2014 - 2015)

• Coordinated and conducted activities between Teach for Thailand and KMITL

Instrument Student Leader at KMITL, (2012 - 2015)

• created and led student activities
• cooperated activities with alumni and department/engineering faculty

Student Intern at DOW Chemicals, (June - July 2014)

• Practiced process instrumentation maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting in a maintenance system

Student Intern at Chevron (Thailand), (March-May 2014)

• Worked on the project entitled “Control Objective Analysis” regarding objective and operating performance on each element in the closed-loop control
  
  

Honours & Awards

• Best Senior Project Award (2014)
• Chevron Internship Scholarship: on the appraisal of working performance (2014)
• DOW Chemicals Internship Scholarship (2013 - 2014)
• Excellent Scholarship: KMITL (2013)
• Chumbhot - Pantip Foundation Scholarship (2012 - 2014)
• KMITL Scholarship (2011 -2014)
• Toshiba Foundation Scholarship (2011 - 2014)