Tan-Sy Nguyen
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6
Total Citations
135
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About
Tan-Sy Nguyen is a leading figure in the design and control of kinematically redundant hybrid parallel robots, with a focus on enabling safe, intuitive physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). His most-cited work, a 2020 paper with 99 citations, introduced a novel backdrivable (6+3)-degree-of-freedom hybrid parallel robot that achieves sensorless, intuitive collaboration by leveraging kinematic redundancy. This foundational contribution has shaped subsequent advances in motion control algorithms, where Nguyen developed dynamic models and computed-torque methods to enhance precision and stability. His research extends to grasping and manipulation, including a gripper driven by redundant degrees of freedom that combines grasping and scooping for handling both large and thin objects, as well as a remotely operated gripper with integrated motion and force control. Nguyen has also pioneered macro-mini robotic systems, demonstrating ultra-low Cartesian inertia and task-space stiffness-damping control for safer pHRI. With a growing portfolio of papers from 2020 to 2025, his work is highly cited for its practical impact on collaborative robotics, offering new paradigms for sensorless interaction, redundant actuation, and versatile manipulation in human-robot environments.
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- 5Physical Human–Robot Interaction Using a Macro–Mini Robotic System4 citations · 2023
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