Cong Dung Pham
Papers
6
Total Citations
110
H-Index
4
About
Dr. Cong Dung Pham is a robotics researcher whose work spans surgical robotics, agricultural automation, and underwater vehicle control. His most impactful contribution, a 2015 paper on moving remote center of motion control for minimally invasive surgery (44 citations), introduced a novel control architecture that allows robotic instruments to pivot naturally at the incision point while simultaneously managing end-effector motion—a critical advance for safer, more intuitive robotic surgery. Dr. Pham also led the design of the Thorvald platform (37 citations), a low-cost, lightweight agricultural robot engineered to perform the full crop cycle from seeding to harvesting, demonstrating his commitment to practical, versatile field robotics. His research further extends to control allocation for mobile manipulators with onboard cameras (13 citations) and haptic control for underwater robots, addressing the challenge of distributing control forces in complex environments. By developing analytical approaches to operational space control under kinematic constraints, Dr. Pham has provided foundational tools for teleoperation and autonomous systems. His work on performance metrics for haptically controlled systems (3 citations) reflects a rare attention to both objective and subjective evaluation, bridging engineering precision with user experience.
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- 3Control allocation for mobile manipulators with on-board cameras13 citations · 2013
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- 5A control allocation approach to haptic control of underwater robots4 citations · 2015
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