Recent News 

• October 2025. Our paper “Diffusion-Driven Hybrid Unknown Input Observer for Vehicle Dynamics Estimation”, completed under our PROCORE France–Hong Kong joint project, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Congratulations to the project team members!

• October 2025. WE ARE HIRING! We offer a 13-month postdoctoral position focused on “Fuel Cell Control and Energy Management”. More details can be found here. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this postdoc opportunity. 

• October 2025. My Franco-British joint project LEARN-SAFE, with Prof. Jianglin Lan, University of Glasgow, UK, has been approved for funding.

• September 2025. Our paper “Uncertainty-driven Active Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management Strategy in Electrified Vehicles”, completed under our PROCORE France–Hong Kong joint project, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. Congratulations to the project team members!

• September 2025. I have been named on Stanford University's list of the top 2% of scientists in the world for the fourth year in a row.

• 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.

• 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.