Ph.D. Ngoc Thinh Nguyen

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Email: ngocthinh.nguyen(at)uni-luebeck.de
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Short Biography

Ngoc Thinh Nguyen received his Engineering degree in Mechatronics from Hochiminh-city University of Technology, Vietnam in 2016 and his PhD in Control Engineering at the Laboratory of Conception and Integration of Systems (LCIS) of Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering and Management, France in 2019.
In 2016, he obtained the ERASMUS scholarship in 2016 for conducting his engineering graduation project and the MERNT grant (from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation) for pursuing his PhD, both within the laboratory LCIS, France. In 2019, he received the PhD grant InProTUC from Technische Universität Chemnitz within a PhD exchange program.
From February 2020, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen joined the Institute for Robotics and Cognitive Systems as a post-doc researcher within the KI-Lab project from 2020 to the end of 2021 and then, within the KRIBL project from 2022.

Research Interests

His research interests include modeling and control for nonlinear dynamical systems (especially for mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), Model Predictive Control designs with stability and feasibility analysis as well as optimal trajectory generation using B-spline parametrization.

2024

Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Niklas Fin Kompe, and Floris Ernst,
Autonomous mapping of Rumex with a mobile robot, in Proceedings of 17. Wissenschaftstagung Okologischer Landbau , 2024. pp. 484-485.
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Pranav Tej Gangavarapu, Nicolas Mandel, Ralf Bruder, and Floris Ernst,
Motion planning for 4WS vehicle with autonomous selection of steering modes via an MIQP-MPC controller, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2024. pp. 9765-9771.
DOI:10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610461

2023

Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Pranav Tej Gangavarapu, Niklas Fin Kompe, Georg Schildbach, and Floris Ernst,
Navigation with Polytopes: A Toolbox for Optimal Path Planning with Polytope Maps and B-spline Curves, Sensors , vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 3532, 2023.
DOI:10.3390/s23073532
File: s23073532
Daniel Wulff, Timon Dohnke, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, and Floris Ernst,
Towards Realistic 3D Ultrasound Synthesis: Deformable Augmentation using Conditional Variational Autoencoders, IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) , pp. 821-826, 2023.
DOI:10.1109/CBMS58004.2023.00326
File: CBMS58004.2023.00326

2021

Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, and Laurent Lefévre,
Stability Guarantees for Translational Thrust-Propelled Vehicles Dynamics Through NMPC Designs, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology , vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 207-219, 2021.
DOI:10.1109/tcst.2020.2974146
File: tcst.2020.2974146
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, and Ionela Prodan,
Stabilizing a multicopter using an NMPC design with a relaxed terminal region, IFAC-PapersOnLine , vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 126-132, 2021.
File: S2405896321013094
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, and Georg Schildbach,
Tightening polytopic constraint in MPC designs for mobile robot navigation, 2021. pp. 407-412.
DOI:10.1109/icstcc52150.2021.9607209
File: icstcc52150.2021.9607209

2020

Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, and Laurent Lefévre,
Flat trajectory design and tracking with saturation guarantees: a nano-drone application, International Journal of Control , vol. 93, no. 6, pp. 1266-1279, 2020. Taylor & Francis.
DOI:10.1080/00207179.2018.1502474
File: 00207179.2018.1502474
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Felix Petzke, Stefan Streif, and Laurent Lefévre,
Hierarchical Control of a Quadcopter under Stuck Actuator Fault, IFAC-PapersOnLine , vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 4258-4263, 2020.
File: S2405896320331852
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, and Laurent Lefévre,
Multicopter Attitude Control through NMPC Design with Guaranteed Stability, IFAC-PapersOnLine , vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 6101-6106, 2020.
File: S2405896320322886
Huu Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, and Fernando Lobo Pereira,
Trajectory Tracking for a Multicopter under a Quaternion Representation, IFAC-PapersOnLine , vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 5731-5736, 2020.
File: S2405896320321984

2019

Florin Stoican, Ionela Prodan, Esten Ingar Grøtli, and Ngoc Thinh Nguyen,
Inspection Trajectory Planning for 3D Structures under a Mixed-Integer Framework, 2019. pp. 1349-1354.
DOI:10.1109/icca.2019.8899514
File: icca.2019.8899514
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen,
Reliable hierarchical control for multicopter systems, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2019.
File: tel-02526853

2017

Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, and Laurent Lefévre,
Multi-layer optimization-based control design for quadcopter trajectory tracking, 2017. pp. 601-606.
DOI:10.1109/med.2017.7984183
File: med.2017.7984183
Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Florin Stoican, and Laurent Lefévre,
Reliable nonlinear control for quadcopter trajectory tracking through differential flatness, IFAC-PapersOnLine , vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 6971-6976, 2017.
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