Papers
10
Total Citations
265
H-Index
8
About
Hai-Nguyen Nguyen is a robotics researcher whose work is reshaping how aerial robots interact with the physical world. His primary research areas span aerial manipulation, perching mechanisms, and autonomous sensor placement, with a focus on extending the operational capabilities of flying robots. Nguyen's most impactful contribution is the development of a novel spherically connected multiquadrotor (SmQ) platform, which uses quadrotors as distributed rotating thrust generators for aerial manipulation—a paper that has garnered 118 citations. He has also pioneered a passively adaptive microspine grapple for robust perching (58 citations), enabling drones to conserve power by attaching to surfaces, and has explored learning-based tethered perching to further extend flight endurance. Beyond hardware, Nguyen has contributed to public engagement with robotics, co-authoring work on societal perceptions of autonomous systems. His integrated framework for autonomous sensor placement with aerial robots (16 citations) demonstrates a systems-level approach to real-world deployment. With a portfolio that includes underwater robotics and modular manipulators, Nguyen is advancing the frontier of physically interactive flight.
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Top Papers
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- 2A Passively Adaptive Microspine Grapple for Robust, Controllable Perching58 citations · 2019
- 3Learning Tethered Perching for Aerial Robots16 citations · 2023
- 4An Integrated Framework for Autonomous Sensor Placement With Aerial Robots16 citations · 2022
- 5An Aerial Parallel Manipulator With Shared Compliance15 citations · 2022
- 6Robots in the Danger Zone15 citations · 2020
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- 8Hand Tracking: Survey8 citations · 2024
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