Van Duong Nguyen

Singapore University of Technology and Design

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Van Duong Nguyen is a robotics researcher specializing in miniature climbing robots and spherical rolling robots for autonomous surveillance and reconnaissance. His most impactful work, "ORION-II: A Miniature Climbing Robot with Bilayer Compliant Tape for Autonomous Intelligent Surveillance and Reconnaissance" (2018, 15 citations), introduces a compact climbing robot equipped with bilayer compliant tape and full electronic integration for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions. This design enables autonomous vertical locomotion, marking a significant step in miniaturized field robotics. Nguyen also advances control theory with "De-coupled dynamics control of a spherical rolling robot for waypoint navigation" (2017, 7 citations), where he derives decoupled control laws for a non-holonomic spherical robot using an internal two-wheeled differential drive cart fused with IMU and odometry sensors. His work on "Localization of a Miniature Spherical Rolling Robot Using IMU, Odometry and UWB" (2018, 4 citations) addresses the critical challenge of GPS-denied localization for spherical robots, enhancing their recovery and navigation capabilities. Collectively, Nguyen’s contributions push the boundaries of autonomous mobile robotics, offering practical solutions for surveillance in constrained environments.