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- Dr. Van is a Senior Lecturer (a.k.a Associate Professor) in Robotics and Control Engineering. He has authored and co-authored for over 66 journal and 16 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 >3700 citations and h-index=34.
- Dr. Van is an executive member of UK Robotics and Autonomous System (UK RAS) and UK Automatic Control Engineering (UK ACE) EPSRC Networks.
- Dr. Van has been PIs/CoIs and 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.
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PI, Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Monitoring Using Computer Vision and AI, funded by Innovate UK, 2024-2026.
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PI -'(ORCA) Optimally ReConfigurable AUV-enabled Surveying using High Data-Rate Underwater Wireless Communications for Defence," funded by Dstl/MOD, 2023-2024.
- PI- 'Bio-Inspired Robotics Design and Development (BioRobotics), funded by EPSRC/UKRAS network
- 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 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R1082ECS: Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Monitoring Using Computer Vision and AI
Van, M. (PI)
01/08/2024 → …
Project: Research
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R3543ECS: (ORCA) Optimally ReConfigurable AUV-enabled Surveying using High Data-Rate Underwater Wireless Communications for Defence
Van, M. (PI)
19/12/2023 → …
Project: Research
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R1653ECS: Development of Resilient and Collaborative Autonomous Marine Vehicles for Underwater Monitoring and Construction
Van, M. (PI)
27/04/2022 → …
Project: Research
Research output
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Deep learning-enhanced defects detection for printed circuit boards
Kieu, X.-T., Nguyen, V.-T., Chu, D.-T., Van, X.-H., Van, M., Su, S.-F. & Phan, X.-T., Mar 2025, In: Results in Engineering. 25, 104067.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fixed-time adaptive neural control for physical human-robot collaboration with time-varying workspace constraints
Sun, Y., Van, M., McIlvanna, S., Minh Nhat, N., McLoone, S., Ceglarek, D. & Ge, S. S., 17 Mar 2025, (Early online date) In: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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LiDAR-only navigation of UGVs in dynamic environments via graph attention networks and deep reinforcement learning
Maguire, L., Van, M., Olayemi, K. & McLoone, S., 26 Mar 2025, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM’25): Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 6 p. (IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM): Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Real-time reconfiguration and safe navigation for AUVs network using distributed nonlinear MPC and relaxed CBFs: theory and experimental validation
Minh Nhat, N., McIlvanna, S., Close, J., Van, M. & C. Tsimenidis, C., 13 Apr 2025, (Accepted) In: IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Robust adaptive nonlinear PID controller using radial basis function neural network for ballbots with external force
Nguyen, V.-T., Nguyen, Q.-C., Van, M., Su, S.-F., Garg, H., Duong, D.-N. & Phan, X.-T., 01 Jan 2025, In: Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal. 61, 14 p., 101914.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Prizes
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Best Paper Award at ICROS conference
Van, M. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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IET Science, Measurement and Technology Premium Awards in 2017
Van, M. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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External Examiner at the School of Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland
Van, M. (Examiner)
Mar 2025Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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RAS 2025 | 8th Annual IEEE UK and Ireland Robotics and Automation Society Chapter Conference
Athanasopoulos, N. (Chair), Gault, R. (Chair), McLoone, S. (Member of the organising committee), Schofield, A. (Session chair), Mullins, D. (Session chair), Naeem, W. (Session chair), Sopasakis, P. (Session chair), Van, M. (Session chair) & Edmondson, C. (Session chair)
20 Feb 2025 → 21 Feb 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Keynote Talk: Enabling Human-in-the-loop Learning and Digital Twins for Safe, Collaborative Robotics
Van, M. (Advisor)
07 Feb 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Keynote Talk at STAIS 2024: National conference on Smart technologies and application for Industry 4.0, Smart city and Sustainability 2024
Van, M. (Advisor)
Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Invited Talk: Real-Time Reconfiguration and Connectivity Maintenance for AUVs Network under High External Disturbances
Van, M. (Advisor)
Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference