R&D activities

• 2019 - 2023:

  • Analyze and process data from sensors on smart watches: GPS, IMU, and PPG.

  • Develop algorithms on smart watches: Tilt-To-Wake, Step count, Sleep stages, Workout distance, Hand-on detection, Step-length auto-calibration, Workout trace …

• 2016 – 2018:

  • Study and develop a low cost 2-D laser engraver based on 5-bar linkage.

  • Study and implement Amplitude Modulated Halftoning algorithms on laser engraving.

  • Study inertia wheel pendulums applied to self-balancing electric motorcycle.

• 2014 – 2015 :

  • Study, design and implement belt-driven 2-D CNC systems

  • Study and develop balancing robots - interesting educational topics for students in mechatronic engineering

• 2011 – 2013:

  • Study CDIO approach to develop an integrated curriculum.  

  • Participate in Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program transforming engineering education from passive, purely theory-based instruction to active, applied and theory-based instruction and learning at Vietnamese engineering universities.

• 2008 – 2010:

  • Develop mobile robots tracking objects 

  • Study sonar sensors and laser range finder on mobile robot P3-AT

  • Study and develop robot systems picking plastic objects / simulating virtual reality platform

• 2006 – 2007:

  • Study rapid freeze prototyping techniques in bio-plotters for tissue scaffold fabrication.

  • Develop Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software to process 3D data of solid objects and convert them into 2D data via slicing and hatching algorithms.

• 2002 – 2005:

  • Analyze cable-driven parallel kinematic manipulators including kinematics, cable tension, workspace, tension factor, and dynamics.

  • Develop prototypes of cable-driven robots.

  • Develop graphic user interfaces for cable-driven planar robots

• 2000 – 2001:

  • Implement supervisory control and data acquisition systems for flexible work-cells including robot systems, conveyors and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines.

  • Develop automatic manufacturing systems using Programmable Logical Controllers (PLC).

• 1998 – 1999:

  • Upgrade conventional milling machines to CNC milling machines.

  • Maintain and troubleshoot mechanical and mechatronic systems.

  • Conduct courses of operating CNC machines and using basic components in control systems (sensors, solenoid valves, PLC).