Papers
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Total Citations
568
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About
Xuan Tung Truong is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, autonomous navigation, and social intelligence in mobile service robots. His research is primarily focused on enabling robots to navigate safely and naturally in dynamic, crowded human environments — a critical challenge for deploying service robots in real-world settings. Truong's most significant contribution is the development of socially aware robot navigation frameworks, most notably his Proactive Social Motion Model (2017), which has accumulated nearly 200 citations and remains a landmark reference in the field. This work, alongside his concept of Dynamic Social Zones (2016, 95 citations), fundamentally advanced how robots perceive and respond to human personal space and social norms during navigation. His unified framework for approaching pose prediction (2017, 91 citations) further demonstrated his ability to integrate multiple complex behaviors — human detection, group recognition, and trajectory planning — into cohesive systems. Spanning over a decade of research, Truong has consistently pushed the boundaries of multi-sensor fusion, deep learning-based object tracking, and proactive trajectory planning. His cumulative citation record of over 500 citations reflects sustained influence on a research community striving to make human-robot coexistence safer, more intuitive, and ultimately more accepted in everyday life.
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- 5Socially aware robot navigation system in human interactive environments26 citations · 2017
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- 7Dynamic social zone for human safety in human-robot shared workspaces14 citations · 2014
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