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Personal profile
Research Focus
- Dr. Van is a Senior Lecturer (a.k.a Associate Professor) in Robotics and Control Engineering. He has authored and co-authored for over 54 journal and 8 conference papers (first author >40 journal papers). Many papers are published in prestigious journals, including TFS (IF: 9.518), TMECH (IF: 5.673), TCYN (IF: 11.079), TII (IF: 9.112), T-SMC (IF: 9.309), MSSP (IF: 6.471), etc. His publication received >2200 citations and h-index=27.
- Dr. Van has participated in several major projects in Robotics and Control Engineering.
- Lead PI-'Development of multiple underwater vehicles for ocean monitoring' in a collaboration with National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), funded by NERC-MOST), 2022-2023.
- PI- 'Risk Aware Trustworthy Autonomous system' funded by NI DFE, 2022-2024.
- PI-'Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Digital Twin for Multiple Collaborative Underwater Vehicles', funded by the Royal Society, 2022-2023
- PI-Development of Resilient and Collaborative Autonomous Marine Vehicles for Underwater Monitoring and Construction, 2022-2024.
- PI-Digital twins for underwater operations, funded by EPSRC/UK RAS Network, 2022-2023.
- And other Robotics projects: Human-robot collaborative systems in industrial unstructured environments (funded by A*Star), Dexterous and Flexible Robotic Hand with Force Sensing and Adaptive Compliant Control (funded by ONR Global, USA). Manufacturing project: RLW Navigator: Rapid development of remote laser welding process in automotive assembly (funded by FP7). Control engineering project: Control of Launch and Recovery in Enhanced Sea-States (funded by EPSRC).
- Dr. Van received a Best paper award from BK21 (south Korea goverment), the prestigious IET premium award, and Best paper award from ICROS (conference).
- Dr. Van is an Associate Editor of International journal of Control Autonomous System (IF:2.733) and Frontiers in Control Engineering, Scientic Report (IF:4.379) and Guest Editor of journal Sensor (IF:3.031).
- Dr. Van is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue: Finite-time/Fixed-time control for Mechaincal System of the Journal Actuators (IF: 1.957)
Research Focus and Interest
- Resilient Risk-Aware Autonomy for Unmanned autonomous vehicles: develop health monitoring, disturbance observer, intelligent control and resilient control.
- In-process quality control for manufacturing systems: develop inline quality manufacturing, in-process quality control for welding and machining systems.
- Human-robot interaction: Shared control and safe control, intelligent human-robot interaction.
- Multiple collaborative vehicles: for underwater robots, mobile robots
- Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for mechanical systems: robot, aerospace, etc.
Teaching: ELE4024: Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Projects
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R1033ECS: AI-Enhanced Digital Twin for Multiple Collaborative Underwater Vehicles
28/03/2022 → …
Project: Research
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Adaptive admittance control for safety-critical physical human robot collaboration
Sun, Y., Van, M., McIlvanna, S., McLoone, S. & Ceglarek, D., 01 Apr 2023, (Accepted) Proceedings of the 22th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC 2023. (IFAC-PapersOnLine).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Adaptive fuzzy fault tolerant control for robot manipulators with fixed-time convergence
Van, M., Sun, Y., Mcllvanna, S., Minh Nhat, N., Khyam, M. O. & Ceglarek, D., 22 Feb 2023, (Early online date) In: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Adaptive safety-critical control with uncertainty estimation for human-robot collaboration
Zhang, D., Van, M., McIlvanna, S., Sun, Y. & McLoone, S., 21 Sep 2023, (Accepted) In: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards more efficient efficientdets and real-time marine debris detection
Zocco, F., Lin, T-C., Huang, C-I., Wang, H-C., Khyam, M. O. & Van, M., Apr 2023, In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters . 8, 4, p. 2134 - 2141Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A novel switching adaptive control for randomly switching systems with an application to suspension systems
Do, X. P., Van, M. & Nguyen, N. P., May 2022, In: European Journal of Control. 65, 13 p., 100635.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile15 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Dataset for "Towards More Efficient EfficientDets and Low-Light Real-Time Marine Debris Detection."
Van, M. (Creator), Queen's University Belfast, Mar 2022
https://github.com/fedezocco/MoreEffEffDetsAndWPBB-TensorFlow/tree/main/WPBB_dataset
Dataset
Prizes
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Best Paper Award at ICROS conference
Van, Mien (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Editor’s Choice Article
Van, Mien (Recipient), 06 Jul 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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IET Science, Measurement and Technology Premium Awards in 2017
Van, Mien (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (Journal)
Mien Van (Peer reviewer)
08 May 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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The First Robotics and Digital Twins Workshop
Mien Van (Chair)
27 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Nature Scientific Reports (Journal)
Mien Van (Peer reviewer)
26 Feb 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (Journal)
Mien Van (Peer reviewer)
03 Jan 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (Journal)
Mien Van (Peer reviewer)
03 Jan 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review