Universität zu Lübeck - Institut für Robotik - Institut - Mitarbeiter - Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh

Ngoc Thinh NguyenPh.D.

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 85 (EG)

Telefon:	+49 451 31015216
Fax:	+49 451 31015204
Email:	ngocthinh.nguyen(at)uni-luebeck.de

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 Interestes

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.

Publications

[1] Huu Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan. Notes on the Terminal Region Enlargement of a Stabilizing NMPC Design for a Multicopter, accepted as Brief Paper for publication at Automatica, September 2023, coming soon.

[2] Harsh Yadav, Honghu Xue, Yan Rudall, Mohamed Bakr, Benedikt Hein, Elmar Rueckert and Ngoc Thinh Nguyen. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robot, accepted for publication at the 2023 International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), held in Timisoara, Romania, October 2023.

[3] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Pranav Tej Gangavarapu, Floris Ernst. B-spline-to-Bézier conversion and applications on path planning, accepted for publication at the 2023 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), held in Rome, Italy, July 2023.

[4] Daniel Wulff, Timon Dohnke, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Floris Ernst. Towards Realistic 3D Ultrasound Synthesis: Deformable Augmentation using Conditional Variational Autoencoders, in Proc. of the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), pp. 821-826, held in L’Aquila, Italy, June 2023. Best student paper award.

[5] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Pranav Tej Gangavarapu, Arne Sahrhage, Georg Schildbach, Floris Ernst. Navigation with polytopes and B-spline path planner, in Proc. of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5695-5701, held in London, UK, May-June 2023.

[6] 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, issue 7, 2023.

[7] Maryam Nezami, Hossam Seddik Abbas, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Georg Schildbach. Robust tube-based LPV-MPC for autonomous lane-keeping, in Proc. of the 5th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems (Joint SSSC, TDS, LPVS 2022), held in Montreal, Canada, September 2022. IFAC-PapersOnline, vol. 55, issue 35, pp. 103-108, 2022. Best student paper award.

[8] Maryam Nezami, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Georg Männel, Hossam Seddik Abbas, Georg Schildbach. A Safe Control Architecture Based on Robust Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Driving, in Proc. of the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC'22), pp. 914-919, held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2022.

[9] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. Stability guarantees for translational thrust-propelled vehicles dynamics through NMPC designs. IEEE Transactions of Control Systems Technology, vol. 29, issue 1, pp. 207-219, 2021.

[10] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Lars Schilling, Michael Sebastian Angern, Heiko Hamann, Floris Ernst, Georg Schildbach. B-spline path planner for safe navigation of mobile robots, in Proc. of the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'21), held in Prague, Czech Republic, 2021.

[11] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Georg Schildbach. Tightening polytopic constraint in MPC designs for mobile robot navigation, in Proc. of the 25th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), held in Iasi, Romania, 2021. Best paper award.

[12] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan. Stabilizing a multicopter using an NMPC design with a relaxed terminal region, in Proc. of the 7th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC'21), held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021. IFAC-PapersOnline, vol. 54, issue 6, pp. 126-132, 2021.

[13] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Felix Petzke, Stefan Streif, Laurent Lefevre. Hierarchical Control of a Quadcopter under Stuck Actuator Fault, in Proc. of the 21st IFAC World Congress, held in Berlin, Germany, 2020. IFAC-PapersOnline, vol. 53, issue 2, pp. 4258-4263, 2020.

[14] Huu Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Fernando Lobo Pereira. Trajectory Tracking for a Multicopter under a Quaternion Representation, in Proc. of the 21st IFAC World Congress, held in Berlin, Germany, 2020. IFAC-PapersOnline, vol. 53, issue 2, pp. 5731-5736, 2020.

[15] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. Multicopter Attitude Control through NMPC Design with Guaranteed Stability, in Proc. of the 21st IFAC World Congress, held in Berlin, Germany, 2020. IFAC-PapersOnline, vol. 53, issue 2, pp. 6101-6106, 2020.

[16] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. Flat trajectory design and tracking with saturation guarantees: a nano-drone application. International Journal of Control, vol. 93, issue 6, 2020.

[17] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. On the use of a computed-torque control law for the terminal region of an NMPC scheme, in Proc. of the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC'19), pp. 1008-1013, held in Philadelphia, USA, 2019.

[18] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. A stabilizing NMPC design for thrust-propelled vehicles dynamics via feedback linearization, in Proc. of the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC'19), pp. 2909-2914, held in Philadelphia, USA, 2019.

[19] Florin Stoican, Ionela Prodan, Esten Ingar Grøtli, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen. Inspection Trajectory Planning for 3D Structures under a Mixed-Integer Framework, in Proc. of the 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), pp. 1349-1354, held in Edinburgh, UK, 2019.

[20] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. Effective angular constrained trajectory generation for thrust-propelled vehicles, in Proc. of the 2018 European Control Conference (ECC'18), pp. 1833-1838, 2018.

[21] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Florin Stoican, Laurent Lefevre. Reliable nonlinear control for quadcopter trajectory tracking through differential flatness, in Proc. of the 20th IFAC World Congress, held in Toulouse, France, 2017. IFAC-PapersOnline, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 6971.

[22] Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan, Laurent Lefevre. Multi-layer optimization-based control design for quadcopter trajectory tracking, in Proc. of the 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'17), pp. 601-606, 2017.