Huu Thien Nguyen (D117-BD12-20F8)

Curriculum Vitae

Huu Thien Nguyen

Huu Thien Nguyen obtained the Mechatronics Engineering degree from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2019. From February to July 2019, he was doing his master's thesis at the Laboratory of Conception and Integration of Systems (LCIS) of Grenoble INP, University Grenoble Alpes, Valence, France, focusing on the control of multicopters under the quaternion attitude representation. Since 2020, he has been a researcher at the R&D Unit SYSTEC (ISRP/FEUP) and since 2021, part of ARISE-LA, Portugal. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Fernando A. C. C. Fontes, and co-supervised by Assoc. Prof. Ionela Prodan (Grenoble INP UGA, France). His research interests are optimization, optimal control, and Model Predictive Control with applications in UAVs, including hybrid UAVs, fixed-wing UAVs, and multicopters.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Huu Thien Nguyen

Citation names

Huu Thien Nguyen

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D117-BD12-20F8
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2266-9560
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vTxSAPwAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Id: 57223157690

Email addresses

huu-thien.nguyen@outlook.com (Professional)
huu-thien.nguyen@ieee.org (Professional)

Websites

https://huu-thien-nguyen.github.io/homepage/ (Personal)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/huuthiennguyen/ (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Automation and Control Systems
Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)
Vietnamese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020/10 - 2024 Ongoing	Doutoramento em Matemática Aplicada (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2014/08 - 2019/10/25 Concluded	EUR-ACE Master - Engineering master degree in Mechanical Engineering (Integrated master) (Master) Major in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics Engineering) Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam "Motion planning for a quadcopter in a quaternion representation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very good

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/11/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/06/02 - 2020/10/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/01/02 - 2020/06/01	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Portugal
	Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/02 - 2019/07	Intern	Laboratoire de Conception et d'Intégration des Systèmes, France
	Université Grenoble Alpes, France (...)
2017/06 - 2018/12	Undergraduate research assistant	National Key Lab for Digital Control & System Engineering (DCSELAB), Vietnam
	Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/11/01 - Current	Motion Planning and Control for Variable-Geometry UAV Operation in a Cluttered Environment 2020.07959.BD Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/06/02 - Current	SYSTEC FEUP Research fellow SYSTEC project Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Ongoing
2022/04/12 - 2023/12/31	Motion planning and control for Variable-Geometry UAV operation in a cluttered environment 2021.09306.CBM Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Ecole nationale supérieure en Systèmes Avancés et Réseaux, France	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/02 - 2020/06/01	SYSTEC - ISR Research fellow SYSTEC activities Research Fellow Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Portugal	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas e Tecnologias Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28	UPWind-ATOL : An Airborne Wind Energy System with Automatic Takeoff and Landing capabilities 2022.02801.PTDC 10.54499/2022.02801.PTDC Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Huu Thien Nguyen; Sérgio Vinha; Manuel C. R. M. Fernandes; Luís Tiago Paiva; Ionela Prodan; Fernando A.C.C. Fontes. "Emergency Landing using Deep-stall for Airborne Wind Energy System with Fixed-Wing Kites". 2023. 10.5281/ZENODO.8056073
Conference paper	Vinha, Sérgio; Fernandes, Gabriel M.; Huu Thien Nguyen ; Fernandes, Manuel C.R.M.; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. "Automatic Circular Take-off and Landing of Tethered Motorized Aircraft". Paper presented in The 22nd European Control Conference (ECC) 2024, Stockholm, 2024. Accepted Nguyen, Huu Thien; Prodan, Ionela; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Nguyen, Huu Thien. "Trajectory Optimization and NMPC Tracking for a Fixed Wing UAV in Deep Stall with Perch Landing". Paper presented in The 21st European Control Conference (ECC) 2023, Bucharest, 2023. Accepted • 10.23919/ECC57647.2023.10178188
Conference poster	Huu Thien Nguyen ; Vinha, Sérgio; Manuel Côrte-Real de Matos Fernandes; Afaq Ahmed; Luís Tiago Paiva; Ali Arshad Uppal; Fontes, Fernando A. C. C.. Corresponding author: Huu Thien Nguyen. "An Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning Approach with Multi-Fidelity Simulation Models for Motion Control of Four in-Wheel Motor Vehicles". Paper presented in The 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023), 2023.
Journal article	Nguyen, Huu Thien; Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh; Prodan, Ionela. "Notes on the terminal region enlargement of a stabilizing NMPC design for a multicopter". Automatica 159 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111375. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111375 Nguyen, Huu Thien; Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh; Prodan, Ionela; Pereira, Fernando Lobo. "Trajectory Tracking for a Multicopter under a Quaternion Representation". IFAC-PapersOnLine 53 2 (2020): 5731-5736. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1602. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1602

Artistic / Performance

Video recording	Huu Thien Nguyen. 2020. Trajectory Tracking for a Multicopter under a Quaternion Representation.
Visual artwork	Huu Thien Nguyen. Trajectory Optimization and NMPC Tracking for a Fixed-Wing UAV in Deep Stall with Perch Landing.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/12/05	Trajectory Optimization and NMPC Tracking for a Fixed-Wing UAV in Deep Stall with Perch Landing	Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)'s Mathematical Engineering Laboratory (Porto, Portugal)
2023/12/05	An Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning Approach with Multi-Fidelity Simulation Models for Motion Control of Four In-Wheel Motor Vehicles	SYSTEC TALKS SYSTEC-ARISE (Porto, Portugal)
2023/11/16	Terminal region enlargement of a stabilizing NMPC design for a multicopter	Scientific Day on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control LCIS, Valence, France. (Valence, France)
2023/05/31	Trajectory Optimization and NMPC Tracking for a Fixed-Wing UAV in Deep Stall with Perch Landing	SYSTEC TALKS SYSTEC-ARISE (Porto, Portugal)
2023/05/26	Emergency Landing using Deep-stall for Airborne Wind Energy System with Fixed-Wing Kites	Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 The University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2021/10/22	Challenges in Hierarchical Control for Hybrid UAVs	Speech Pizza LCIS (Valence, France)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/06/26 - 2023/06/30	The summer school on learning-based Predictive Control, hosted by the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI) and the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich. The course was taught by Prof. Melanie Zeilinger (ETH), Prof. Lorenzo Fagiano (Politecnico di Milano), Dr Lukas Hewing (Sener Aerospace, Spain). Other	EECI International Graduate School on Control 2023 - Learning-based predictive control Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2021/09/06 - 2021/09/10	A virtual (online) 30-hour autumn school training course on "Data and Learning for Control", hosted by Gipsa-lab, Grenoble, France. Other	The 42nd International Summer School of Automatic Control of Grenoble, France Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique, France

Distinctions

Award

2019	Bourse de Couverture Sociale (BCS) Ambassade de France au Vietnam, Vietnam
2018	AmCham Scholarship The American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City Chapter, Vietnam
2018	Sunflower Mission Engineering and Technology Scholarship Sunflower Mission, United States eSilicon Corporation, United States
2017	First Prize in the Multiple Choice test, in the 20th Olympic Contest of Physics for University Students Nationwide Vietnam Association of Physics, Vietnam
2017	Consolation Prize in Theoretical Mechanics, in the 2017 Nationwide Olympic of Mechanics Vietnam Association of Mechanics, Vietnam
2016	Kanden-SS scholarship Kanden system solutions Co.,Inc, Japan Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam
2016	First Prize in the Multiple Choice test, in the 19th Olympic Contest of Physics for University Students Nationwide Vietnam Association of Physics, Vietnam
2016	Consolation Prize in Theoretical Mechanics, in the 2016 Nationwide Olympic of Mechanics Vietnam Association of Mechanics, Vietnam
2016	Certificate of Excellence from Dean of Mechanical Engineering for ranking first in Class of 2014 Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam