Recent News 

• August 2025. Our paper “Contingency-Aware Spatiotemporal Optimization for Safe Autonomous Vehicle Trajectory Planning” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Congratulations to Zhihao! Welcome you to our lab soon.

• July 2025. I am a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Beihang University in Beijing, China.

• June 2025. Our paper “Trust-Based Shared Steering Control with Game Theory Using Event-Triggered ADP for Human-Vehicle Cooperative Driving” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Congratulations to Yingkui and Sicheng and thanks to their advisor Chuan for inviting me to collaborate on this paper!

• June 2025. WE ARE HIRING! We offer a double-degree PhD opportunity between Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (France) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain). The PhD project focuses on developing learning-based control and estimation algorithms with performance guarantees for systems with partially known dynamics. More details can be found here. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this PhD opportunity. 

• June 2025. Our paper “Adaptive Neural-Network-Based Fault Tolerant Control for Autonomous Vehicles With Dynamic Output Constraints” is accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. Congratulations to Zhaoyu for leading the work and thanks to his advisors for inviting me to collaborate on this paper!

• May 2025. I join the editorial board of the journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems as an Area Editor.

• May 2025. I attend the 12th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, and visit the beautiful Arizona State University, Arizona, USA.

• April 2025. I am a Visiting Professor at Beihang University in Beijing, China.

• March 2025. Our paper “Less-Conservative Robust Path Tracking Control with Intrinsic Bump-Free Feature for Autonomous Vehicles: A Sub-Polytope Integrated Approach” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Congratulations to Liqin for leading the work and thanks to his advisors for inviting me to collaborate on this paper!

• March 2025. Ariany's work during her PhD visit at LAMIH on “Twin-Models-Based Controller Output Observer for Vehicle Dynamics Estimation: Concept, Design and  Validation” is accepted for publication in the 12th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles. Congratulations! 

• March 2025. I am a Visiting Professor at The University of Glasgow (UofG), UK.

• January 2025. Our paper “Guaranteed State Estimation for H−/L∞ Fault Detection of Uncertain Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems with Unmeasured Nonlinear Consequents” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

• December 2024. Our four-year project, SAMANTHA (Safe and Smart Manufacturing with Human-in-the-Loop), has been approved under the CAPES-COFECUB program.

• December 2024. Our survey paper “Recent Estimation Techniques of Vehicle-Road-Pedestrian States for Traffic Safety: Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Many thanks to the Hong Kong PolyU team for leading the work! 

• November 2024. I am a Visiting Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong.

• September 2024. For the third consecutive year, I have been named on Stanford University's list of the top 2% of scientists in the world.

• September 2024. Mrs. Ariany Carolina de Oliveira, a PhD student at UFMG, Brazil, joins our group as a visiting PhD student, working on the topic “Robust Output Feedback Tracking Control and Applications”. Welcome!   

• July 2024. I am a Visiting Professor at Beihang University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

• May 2024. I participate in the review process to select the recipient of the Annual European Systems & Control PhD Thesis Award.

• April 2024. Our paper “Decoupling-Based LPV Observer for Driver Torque Intervention Estimation in Human-Machine Shared Driving Under Uncertain Vehicle Dynamics” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.  

• April 2024. Our paper “Switched Dynamic Event-Triggered Control for String Stability of Nonhomogeneous Vehicle Platoons with Uncertainty Compensation” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.  

• March 2024. Our paper “Cost-Effective Estimation of Vehicle Lateral Tire-Road Forces and Sideslip Angle via Nonlinear Sampled-Data Observers: Theory and Experiments” is accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 

• March 2024. I am a member of the Selection Committee Panel for the 2023 Best Paper Prize awarded by the journal ISA Transactions.

• March 2024. Our paper “Secure Estimation Using Partially Homomorphic Encryption for Unmanned Aerial Systems in the Presence of Eavesdroppers” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.  

• January 2024. I join the editorial board of the journal IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics as a Technical Editor.

• January 2024. I join the editorial board of the journal ISA Transactions as an Associate Editor.

• December 2023. I am the Chair of the Selection Committee Panel for the 2023 Best Paper Prize of the IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice.

• Read more here.

Current Research Interests

• Robust control and estimation

• Learning-based control and estimation

• Cybernetics control systems

• Human-machine shared control 

• Applications: transport and mobility, mechatronics, persons with reduced mobility, intelligent vehicles, soft robotics

Selected Key Publications

1. Anh-Tu Nguyen*, Tadanari Taniguchi, Luka Eciolaza, Víctor Campos, Reinaldo Palhares, Michio Sugeno, “Fuzzy Control Systems: Past, Present and Future”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 56-68, 2019.

2. Amir Benloucif, Anh-Tu Nguyen*, Chouki Sentouh, Jean-Christophe Popieul, “Cooperative Trajectory Planning for Haptic Shared Control between Driver and Automation in Highway Driving”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, iss. 12, pp. 9846-9857, 2019. (with experimental results)

3. Anh-Tu Nguyen*, Philippe Chevrel, Fabien Claveau, “Gain-Scheduled Static Output Feedback Control for Saturated LPV Systems with Bounded Parameter Variations”, Automatica, vol. 89, pp. 420-424, 2018.

4. Anh-Tu Nguyen*, Chouki Sentouh, Jean-Christophe Popieul, “Driver-Automation Cooperative Approach for Shared Steering Control under Multiple System Constraints: Design and Experiments”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, iss. 5, pp. 3819-3830, 2017 (with experimental results).

5. Juntao Pan, Anh-Tu Nguyen*, Thierry-Marie Guerra, Dalil Ichalal, “A Unified Framework for Asymptotic Observer Design of Fuzzy Systems with Unmeasurable Premise Variables”, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 29, iss. 10, pp. 2938-2948, 2021.