Papers
9
Total Citations
128
H-Index
6
About
Chien Van Dang is a roboticist whose work bridges autonomous navigation, cognitive architectures, and ethical human-robot interaction. His primary research areas include path planning for non-holonomic robots, cognitive robotic systems, and humanoid stabilization. Dang’s most influential contribution is his work on hybrid A-star path planning, where he introduced improved analytic expansions that significantly enhance motion continuity for non-holonomic robots in discrete grid maps—a paper that has garnered 43 citations. He has also advanced human-following robots by integrating the Soar cognitive architecture with obstacle avoidance methods, achieving collision-free navigation in dynamic environments (26 citations). Notably, Dang has explored the application of Asimov’s Three Laws and utilitarian ethics to home service robots, creating agents that prioritize human health and safety. His work on sensory reflex control for humanoid walking stabilization (12 citations) further demonstrates his versatility. With a total of over 120 citations across his publications, Dang’s research is shaping the next generation of intelligent, ethically-aware service robots.
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- 4Motion and Walking Stabilization of Humanoids Using Sensory Reflex Control12 citations · 2016
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- 8A Cognitive Robotic System for a Human-Following Robot4 citations · 2020
- 9Development of ROS-based Simulator for a Wheelchair-typed Service Robot2 citations · 2020