Biography
Professor Dr. Goh Cher Hiang is wearing several hats. He is a consultant to A*Star assisting Chief Executive of National Robotics Programme (NRP). He is also an NUS Adjunct Professor with EDIC (Engineering Design Innovation Centre) of Faculty of Engineering, mentoring engineering students on projects innovation. He is also a Principal Investigator on a NUS Research Project on “Advanced and Robust Spacecraft Attitude Control”. In addition, he provides technical consultancy, advice and review experience to commercial companies. He was until Sep 2018, a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of DSO National Laboratories.
He obtained his engineering educations in Germany and received Dipl.-Ing.(equivalent to M.Sc).& Dr.-Ing.(equivalent to Ph.D.) under Public Service Commission (Overseas Merit) Scholarship and MINDEF-Defence Technology Training Award (PhD) respectively.
He is the Project Director of the 1st Singapore Micro-satellite project (X-Sat). He had led a combined team consisting of total about 50 research staff (from DSO and NTU) to design, develop, integrate, test, launch and operate the experimental X-Sat micro-satellite. The satellite was successfully launched on 20 April 2011 and it is still operating today, surpassing its design life of 3 years. He led his team to win the 2011 Defence Technology Prize (Team).
From July 2013 till December 2016, he was the director of the NUS Kent Ridge 1 Micro-satellite program and also the advisor to the NUS 1st Nano-satellite (Galassia). This student-centric project (Galassia) had won the 2016 IES (Institution of Engineers Singapore) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award and 2016 ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award from AFEO (ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations). Before this, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor to Naval Postgraduate School in USA from July 2012 to July 2013.
His primary expertise is in the area of Guidance & Control, Unmanned Systems & Complex Systems’ Developments. He has work experience in stabilized platform design (as project engineer and project leader) and on pre-trial hardware-in-the-loop tests on guided system (as integration and test engineer). As Project Lead, he supervised a team of engineers to design and develop a robotics system targeted for defence. As Programme Manager, he led a combined team of total 25 engineers (from DSO, PSA & CET/ST Engineering) to successfully design, develop and deliver a Navigation System for PSA Automated Ground Vehicle. As Research Head in Guidance & Control as well as Head of Unmanned Systems Programme, he was a technical leader in formulating R&D focus in the development of capabilities in these fields.
In the latter 20 years of his career, he led many successful space missions design and developments. In particular, he formulated the 1st Singapore Experimental Micro-satellite (X-Sat) project with near real-time imaging application. Because of his pioneering effort, many colleagues called him “Father of Singapore Micro-satellite”. The success of X-Sat project had led to the formulation of ST Satellite Systems Pte. Ltd, a subsidiary of ST Electronics to further commercialize the Design Knowhow or Intellectual Property (IP) generated in the X-Sat project. Currently, this company designs and develops commercial space systems.
For his works in DSO, he had received various awards such as DSO Kinetic Award 2011, DSO Group Performance Award 2002, DSO Excellence Award (Individual Award),1995. He was also a member of the team for the inaugural Defence Technology Prize (Team Award) 1989.
He chaired the 1st Singapore Space Symposium in 2014 and was the General Co-chair of IEEE Asia Pacific Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference 2015. He is a Committee Member of IEEE AES-GRSS (Singapore Chapter). He is a Member of Institute of Navigation; Senior Member of IEEE and AIAA.
Personal Interests
- Jogging
- Walking
- Race-Walking
- Hiking
- Chinese Chess
- Reading
Recent Publications
- Q. Shen, C. H. Goh, and C. Yue, “Velocity-free attitude reorientation of a flexible spacecraft with attitude constraints”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1293-1299, May 2017.
- Q. Shen, C. Yue, C. H. Goh, B. Wu, and D. Wang, “Rigid-body attitude stabilization with attitude and angular rate constraints”, IFAC Automatica, 2017, in print.
- Shuzhi Sam Ge, Xiaomei Liu, Cher-Hiang Goh, and Liguang Xu. “Formation Tracking of Multi-Agents in Constrained Space.” IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology 24(3): 992 – 1003 (2016).
- Xiaomei Liu, Shuzhi Sam Ge, and Cher-Hiang Goh. “Vision-based Leader-Follower Formation Control of Multi-Agents with Visibility Constraints.” IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology (accepted).
- Ee Wei Han Eugene, Ajie Nayaka Nikicio, Feng Dan, Harsh Kumar, Hassan Ali Askari, Luo Sha, Zhang Runqi, Goh Cher Hiang, and Liaw Hwee Choo, “Design, AIT, Launch & Early-Operations of Galassia Nano-Satellite”, 30th AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, USA, 8-13 Aug 2016.
- Luo Sha, Mouthaan Koenraad, Soh Wee Seng, Goh Cher Hiang, and Alexander Ling Euk Jin, “Galassia System and Mission”, 28th AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, USA, 2-7 Aug 2014
- Cher-Hiang Goh, “Development of an Experimental Microsatellite”, 32nd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2011, 3 – 7 October 2011, Taipei.
- Cher-Hiang, Goh, “Launch and In Flight Experience of Singapore XSAT Microsatellite”, The 4S (Small Satellites Services And Services) Symposium, 4 – 8 June 2012, Slovenia.