Tien-Thanh Nguyen

Engineer, AI and Robotics Researcher

Biography

Tien-Thanh Nguyen is a researcher at the Robotics & Autonomous Systems unit of the Department of Mechanics at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium.1 2 His research focuses on robotic system integration, 3D reconstruction, real-time perception, planning and control in dynamic, uncertain and occluded environments.1

Nguyen received his Master's degree in Mechatronics and Micro-Mechatronics in 2010 from the École nationale supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (France) and Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft (Germany), with a thesis on modeling and identification of the INCA cable-driven robot.1 2

Prior to joining the Royal Military Academy, Nguyen worked as a researcher at KU Leuven in the framework of the EU FP7 project CROPS, where he was responsible for designing and integrating robots for harvesting apples and grapes.1 2 He also spent several years working as a development engineer in the automotive industry at Tenneco.2

Research Projects

Nguyen is currently working on the MarLand research project at the Royal Military Academy, which aims to develop automated take-off and landing methodologies for unmanned aerial vehicles from Belgian Navy vessels.1 2 Some of his recent publications include:

Landing UAV on Moving Surface Vehicle: Visual Tracking and Motion Prediction of Landing Deck (2024)1
Affordable and Customizable Research and Educational Aerial and Surface Vehicles Robot Platforms – first implementation (2023)1
Development of Dual-function Adaptive Landing Gear and Gripper for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2023)1

Education and Certifications

In addition to his Master's degree, Nguyen has also completed several online courses and certifications, including:

Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree from Udacity (2018-2020)2
Machine Learning, Data Science and Deep Learning with Python from Udemy (2020)2
Green Belt Certification from Tenneco (2019)2

He is proficient in English, German, French, Vietnamese, and Dutch.2

Highlights

Sep 28 · ieeexplore.ieee.org

the international symposium on measurement and control in robotics ...

Experience

Researcher at Royal Military Academy, Belgium since September 2020

Design & Development Engineer at Tenneco (2014 - 2020), Project Researcher at KU Leuven (2011 - 2014), Webmaster at PhD Society Leuven (2013 - 2014), Intern at INSA Strasbourg (2010)

Education

PhD Dropout in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2011 - 2014), Engineer's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Udacity (2018 - 2020), MSc from Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft (2008 - 2009) and Ecole nationale supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (2009 - 2010), Engineer's degree from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (2003 - 2008)