Publications

Ø International Journal

Under review:

• Stephen McIlvanna, Mien Van, Reinforcement Learning-Based Parameter Adaptation for Safety-Critical control of Autonomous Ground Vehicles, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2025. 

• Xu, Yiming; Shen, Shiyi; Zhang, Dianhao; Mien Van, A Unified Predefined-Time Hybrid Control Framework for Swing-Stance Stability in Legged Locomotion, IJRNC, 2025.

• Haichuan Zhang, Shu Wang, Xuan Zhao, Mien Van, Chenyu Zhou and Chongfeng Wei, Uncertainty-Aware Robust MPC Integrating 4WS and DYC for Distributed Driving Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 2025.

• Dianhao Zhang, Yiming Xu; Songhai Zhu; Yinda Fang; Mien Van, Safety-Efficiency Balanced Navigation for Unmanned Tracked Vehicles in Uneven Terrain using Prior-based Ensemble Deep Reinforcement Learning, Applied Intelligence, 2025.

• Yuzhu Sun and Mien Van* and Stephen McIlvanna and Nhat Nguyen and Seán McLoone, Leveraging Demonstrations in Reinforcement Learning for Digital Twin-Driven Robot Obstacle Avoidance, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2024. 

• Kabirat Olayemi ,Mien Van*, Luke Maguire and Seán McLoone, A Digital Twin Framework for Reinforcement Learning with Real-Time Self-Improvement via Human Assistive Teleoperation, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2024.

• Kabirat Olayemi and Mien Van* and Seán McLoone and Yuzhu Sun and Jack Close and Nhat Nguyen and Stephen McIlvanna, A Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithm for Autonomous Ground Vehicle Navigation via Digital Twin Perception Awareness, Submitted to TMECH.

• Yuzhu Sun and Mien Van* and Stephen McIlvanna and Nhat Nguyen and Kabirat Olayemi and Jack Close and Seán McLoone, Digital Twin-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Obstacle Avoidance in Robot Manipulators: A Self-Improving Online Training Framework, Submitted to 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

• Jack close, Mien Van*, "A Unified NMPC-CBF Approach to Kino-Dynamic, Collision-Avoidant Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles", Submitted to Ocean Engineering, 2023.

• Mohammad Soleimani Amiri; Mien Van; " Fuzzy Adaptive Controller of Wearable Assistive Upper-Limb Exoskeleton Using Disturbance Observer", Submitted to Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2023.

• Xuan Phu Do, Mien Van, "Design of New Novel Optimal Controls following Non-Conventional and Flexible Prescribed Performance Boundaries for Vibration Control", Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2023. 

• Xuan Phu Do, Mien Van, Van Chi Le, Quoc Hung Nguyen, Optimal control for Non-smooth control: A new proposal of Adjustable Gain following Saturation function and its switching models, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 

Published:

1. Shakya Bandara; Mien VAN; Dan SUN; Rao FU; Patrick CURLEY; Glenn RUTHERFORD; Colm HIGGINS, Geometrical Quality Prediction of Machining Process by Exechon X-Mini PKM Through Deformation Modelling and Error Compensation, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2025.

2. Yiming Xu, Songhai Zhu, Dianhao Zhang, Yinda Fang, Mien Van, Safety–Efficiency Balanced Navigation for Unmanned Tracked Vehicles in Uneven Terrain Using Prior-Based Ensemble Deep Reinforcement Learning, World Electric Vehicle Journal, Accepted, 2025.

3. Minh Nhat Nguyen, Stephen McIlvanna, Jack Close, Mien Van*, and Charalampos C. Tsimenidis, Real-Time Reconfiguration and Safe Navigation for AUVs Network using Distributed Nonlinear MPC and Relaxed CBFs: Theory and Experimental Validation, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Accepted, 2025 (*Corresponding author).

4. Yuzhu Sun, Mien Van*, Nguyen, Minh Nhat; McIlvanna, Stephen, Ceglarek D and Shuzhi Sam Ge, et al, Fixed-time Adaptive Neural Control for Physical Human-Robot Collaboration with Time-Varying Workspace Constraints,  Accepted to IJRNC," 2025 (*Corresponding author).

5. Xuan Thuc Kieu, Van Truong Nguyen, Duc Tuan Chu, Xiem-Hoang Van, Mien Van, Shun-Feng Su, Xuan-Tan Phan, Deep Learning-Enhanced Defects Detection for Printed Circuit Boards, Results in Engineering, 2025.

6. Mohammad Soleimani Amiri; Mien Van, Rizauddin Ramli , Swarm Initialized Adaptive Controller with Beetle Antenna Searching of Wearable Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Sit-to-Stand and Walking Motions, ISA Transactions, 2025 

7. Van-Truong Nguyen, Mien Van, et al, Robust Adaptive Nonlinear PID Controller using Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Ballbots with External Force, Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2024

8. Dianhao Zhang, Mien Van, Pantelis Sopasakis, Sean McLoone, A NMPC-CBF Framework for Online Motion Planning in vision-based Human-Robot Collaboration, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, accepted, 2024.

9. V. T. Nguyen, Mien Van, et al, "Novel adaptive fuzzy control for Pendubot with actuator faults and uncertainties: Design and Experiments, Results in Engineering, Accepted 2024.

10. Truong Nguyen, Mien Van, et al, "Design and experiment of interval type 2 Fuzzy Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control for Pendubot with Uncertainties," IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Accepted, 2024.

11. Nguyen, Minh Nhat; Mien Van*; McIlvanna, Stephen; Sun, Yuzhu; Close, Jack; Olayemi, Kabirat; Jin, Yan, Model-Free Safety Critical Model Predictive Control for Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environments, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Accepted, 2024. (*corresponding author)

12. Mien Van*, Yuzhu Sun, Stephen Mcllvanna, Minh-Nhat Nguyen, Federico Zocco, Zhijie Liu, Control of Multiple AUV Systems with Input Saturations using Distributed Fixed-Time Consensus Fuzzy Control,   IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2024. (*corresponding author)

13. Stephen McIlvanna, Mien Van*, Yuzhu Sun, Wasif Naeem, Adaptive Fixed-time control for uncertain surface vessels with output constraints, Ocean Engineering, Accepted, 2024. (*corresponding author)

14. Nguyen Xuan-Mung, Dinh Ba Pham, Xuan Quang Duong, Mien Van, Soon-Geul Lee, Sina Sareh, Khoshnam Shojaei, and Hamid Khayyam, Intelligent Robust Disturbance Rejection Control of a Ballbot Drive Micromobility Vehicle , IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023.

15. M. Van, C. Edwards, L. Tran-Thanh, M. Bonney (2023). Digital Twins for Marine Operations. (white paper), EPSRC UK-RAS Network. doi: 10.31256/WP2023.6. 

16. Federico Zocco, Hsueh-Cheng Wang, Mien Van*, Digital Twins for Marine Operations: A Brief Review on Their Implementation, 2023, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.09574.pdf

17. Sun Y, M Van*, McIlvanna S, McLoone S, and Ceglarek D, Fixed-time Integral Sliding Mode Control for Admittance Control of a Robot Manipulator, Int J Robust Nonlinear Control, 2023, https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05065, (Accepted) (corresponding author)

18. Kabirat Bolanle Olayemi, Mien Van*, "THE IMPACT OF LiDAR CONFIGURATION ON GOAL-BASED NAVIGATION WITHIN A DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FRAMEWORK", Sensors, 2023. (corresponding author)

19. Dianhao Zhang, Mien Van, Stephen Mcllvanna, Yuzhu Sun, Seán McLoone, "Adaptive Safety-critical Control with Uncertainty Estimation for Human-robot Collaboration, submitted to IEEE Transactions T-ASE," 2023 (accepted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06867.

20. Sun Y, M Van*, McIlvanna S, McLoone S, and Ceglarek D, (2022), Adaptive Admittance Control for Safety Critical Physical Human Robot Interaction, 2022, https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05061, (IFAC World Congress 2022) 

21. M. Van, et al, Adaptive Fuzzy Fault Tolerant Control for Robot Manipulators with Fixed-Time Convergence, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2023.

22. Federico Zocco, Ching-I Huang, Hsueh-Cheng Wang, Mohammad Omar Khyam and Mien Van*, Towards More Efficient EfficientDets and Low-light real-time marine debris detection, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023. (Accepted) (*corresponding author)

23. Mohammad Soleimani Amiria, Mien Van, Rizauddin Ramlia, A PSO-based Adaptive-Fuzzy-PD Controller for a Rehabilitation Lower Limb Exoskeleton, Engineering science and Technology, An International Journal, 2022, Accepted

24. Do Xuan Phu, Mien Van, Ngoc Phi Nguyen, A novel switching adaptive control for randomly switching systems with an application to suspension systems, European Journal  of Control ,2022

25. Van-Cuong Nguyen, Duy-Tang Hoang, Xuan-Toa Tran, Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang *, A Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Using Wide Deep Neural Network, Machines, Accepted, 2021.

26. Thanh Nguyen Truong, Anh Tuan Vo, Hee Jun Kang *, Mien Van, A Novel Active Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control for Robot Ma- 2 nipulators with Finite-Time Stability, Sensors, Accepted, 2021.

27. Anh Tuan Vo, Thanh Nguyen Truong, Hee Jun Kang *, Mien Van, A Robust Observer-based Control Strategy for n-DOF uncertain Robot Manipulators with Fixed-Time Stability, Sensors, Accepted, 2021.

28. Mien Van, Mien Van; Van Thach Do; Mohammad Omar Khyam; Xuan Phu Do, Tracking Control of Uncertain Surface Vessels with Global Finite-Time Convergence, Ocean Engineering, Accepted, 2021.

29. Mien Van, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Darek Ceglarek, Global Finite-Time Co-operative Control for Multiple Manipulators using Integral Sliding Mode Control, Asian Journal of Control, Accepted, 2021

30. Mien Van, Higher-Order Terminal Sliding Mode Controller for Fault Accommodation of Lipschitz Second-Order Nonlinear Systems using Fuzzy Neural Network, Applied Soft Computing, Accepted, 2021. 

31. Do Xuan Phu, Mien Van, A new switching fuzzy controller with an application to vibration control of a vehicle seat suspension subjected to disturbances ' Applied Sciences , 2021.

32. Mai The Vu, Mien Van, et al, "Robust position control of over-actuated underwater vehicles under model uncertainties and ocean current effects using dynamic sliding mode surface and optimal allocation control," Sensors, 2021.

33. VT Do,  Soon-Geul; Mien Van , Adaptive Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control for Full Nonlinear Dynamics of Uncertain Ridable Ballbots under Input Saturation,  International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2021.

34. Duy-Tang Hoang, Xuan Toa Tran, Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, "A deep neural network-based feature fusion  for bearing fault diagnosis," Sensors, 2021.

35. Mien Van, Darek Ceglarek, Robust Fault Tolerant Control of Robot Manipulators with Global Fixed-Time Convergence, The journal  of Franklin Institute vol. 357, issue 1, pp. 699-722, 2021.

36. Do Xuan Phu, Mien Van., "Robust control for vibration control systems  with dead-zone band  and time delay under severe disturbance using adaptive fuzzy neural network", The journal  of Franklin Institute, vol. 357, issue 17, 12281-12307, 2020 

37. Lejun Chen, Mien Van, "Sliding mode control of a class of underactuated system  with non-integral momentum", The journal of Franklin Institute, vol. 357, issue 14, pp. 9484-9504,  2020.

38. M. T. Vu, Mien Van, D. H. P. Bui, Q. T. Do, T. T. Huynh, S. D. Lee, H. S. Choi, "Study on Dynamics Behaviors of unmanned underwater vehicle system for underwater exploration," Sensors, (Accepted), 2020.

39. Xuan Phu Do , Mien Van , Seung Bok Choi , "A New Optimal Sliding Mode Controller with Adjustable Gains based on Bolza-Meyer Criterion for Vibration Control", Journal of Sound and Vibration , vol. 485, issue 27, 115542, 2020 (Q1)

40. Mien Van, Shuzhi Sam Ge, "Adaptive fuzzy  integral  sliding mode control  for robust fault tolerant control  of robot manipulators with disturbance observer, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Accepted, 2020.  (Q1)

41. Mien Van, DT Hoang, Hee-Jun Kang, Bearing Fault Diagnosis using a Particle Swarm Optimization-Least Squares Wavelet Support Vector Machine Classifier, Sensors, 2020. (Q1)

42. Mien Van, Xuan Phu Do,  " An optimal adaptive neural PI full-order sliding mode control for robust fault tolerant control of uncertain nonlinear systems" European Journal of Control,  vol. 54, pp. 22-32, 2020.   (Q1)

43. Xuan Phu Do, Mien Van, Bok Choi Seung, " A Novel Adaptive Gain of Optimal Sliding Mode Controller for Linear Time-Varying Systems" Applied Science, Accepted for publication, 2019.   (Q1)

44. Mien Van, "Tracking Control of Uncertain Surface Vessels based on nonlinear model predictive control and disturbance observer" European Journal of Control,  2019. (Q1)

45. Mien Van, XuanPhu Do, Michalis Mavrovouniotis "Self-Tuning Fuzzy PID-Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Robust Fault Tolerant Control of Robot Manipulators" ISA Transactions, vol 96, pp. 60-68, 2019. (Q1)

46. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang, Mien Van, Changhe Li, Marios Polyarpou, "Ant Colony optimization algorithms for dynamic problems: A critical evaluation and comparison," IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, In press, 2019. (Q1)

47. Mien Van, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shuzi Sam Ge, "An adaptive backstepping nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control for robust fault tolerant control for robot manipulators" IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1448-1458, 2019. link (Q1)

48. Mien Van,  "An Enhanced Tracking Control of Marine Surface Vessels Based on Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control and Disturbance Observer" ISA Transactions, vol. 90, pp. 30-40, 2019 (Q1)

49. Mien Van, "Adaptive neural integral sliding mode control for tracking control of fully actuated uncertain surface vessels", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 29, pp. 1537-1557, 2019. (Q1)

50. Mien Van, "An Enhanced Robust Fault Tolerant Control Based on an Adaptive Fuzzy PID- Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems" IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1362-1371, 2018. (Q1)

51. Xuan Phu Do, Mien Van, Duc Huy Ta , Bok Choi Seung, "A new composite adaptive controller featuring the neural network and prescribed sliding surface with application to vibration control" Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 107, pp. 409-428, 2018. link  (Q1)

52. Mien Van, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Darek Ceglarek , “Fault estimation and accommodation for virtual sensor bias fault in image-based visual servoing with eye-in-hand configuration using Particle filter”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 4, 1312-1322, 2018. link   (Q1)

53. Mien Van, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Hongliang Ren, “Robust fault tolerant control for a class second-order nonlinear systems using an adaptive third-order sliding mode control”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 47, no. 2, 2017. Link  (Q1)

54. Mien Van, Shuzhi Sam Ge,  Hongliang Ren, “Finite time fault tolerant control for robot manipulators using time delay estimation and continuous nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1681-1693, 2017, link (Q1)

55. Mien Van, Denglu Wu, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Hongliang Ren, “Fault diagnosis in image-based visual servoing with eye-in-hand configuration using Kalman filter”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 12, no. 6, 2016. Link (Q1)

56. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Bearing defect classification based on individual trained wavelet kernel local fisher discriminant analysis with particle swarm optimization, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 124-135, 2016. link (Q1)

57. Mien Van, Pasquale Franciosa, Darek Ceglarek, "Fault diagnosis and Fault tolerant control of uncertain robot manipulators using  high-order sliding mode, ”, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2016. 

58. Mien Van, Pasquale Franciosa, Darek Ceglarek, "Rolling element bearing fault diagnosis based on hybrid nonlocal means de-noising and modified morphology analysis, ”, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2016. 

59. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Two-stage optimal feature selection for rolling element bearing fault diagnosis based on dual-tree complex wavelet transform and empirical mode decomposition”, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol. 230, no. 2, 2016  link 

60. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Wavelet kernel local fisher discriminant analysis with particle swarm optimization algorithm for bearing defect classification”, IEEE Transactions on Instrument and Measurement, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 3588-3600, 2015, link

61. Mien Van, Denglu Wu, Shuzi Sam Ge, Hongliang Ren,"Condition monitoring for image-based visual servoing using Kalman Filter, ”, international Journal of Advanced Robotic System, pp. 842-850, 2015. 

62. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Bearing fault diagnosis using NLM algorithm and empirical mode decomposition-based feature extraction and two-stage feature selection”, IET Science, Measurement & Technology, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 671-680, 2015., link

63. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Robust Fault Tolerant Control for Uncertain Robot Manipulators based on Adaptive Quasi-Continuous High-Order Sliding Mode and Neural Network”, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol. 229, no. 8, 2015, link 

64. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Rolling Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis based on Nonlocal Means De-noising and Empirical Mode Decomposition”,  IET Science, Measurement & Technology, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 571-578, 2014 link 

65. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Adaptive fuzzy quasi-continuous high-order sliding mode controller for output feedback control of robot manipulators”, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Volume 228, Issue 1, January 2014. Link 

66. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Novel Quasi-Continuous Super-twisting HOSM controllers for Output feedback tracking control of robot manipulators”,  Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol 228, no. 17, 2014. Link 

67. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Backstepping Quasi-Continuous HOSM control for a T-S Fuzzy System with an Application for a Two-Lin Robot Control”,  Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Volume 228, Issue 6, pp. 1488-1950, June 2014. Link 

68. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Soo Suh, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Second Order Sliding Mode-Based Output Feedback Tracking Control for Uncertain Robot Manipulators”, International Journal of Advanced Robotic System, 2013. Link 

69.  Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Soo Suh, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “A robust fault diagnosis and accommodation scheme for robot manipulators”, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems (SCIE), Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 377-388, 2013. Link 

70. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Soo Suh, “A novel neural second-order sliding mode observer for robust fault diagnosis in robot manipulators”, International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 397-406, 2013. Link 

71.  Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Soo Suh, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “Output feeback tracking control of uncertain robot manipulators via higher-order sliding mode observer and fuzzy compensator”, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 8 , pp 2487-2496, 2013. Link 

72. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Soo Suh, “A novel fuzzy second-order sliding mode observer-controller for a T-S fuzzy system with an application for robot control”, International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, 2013. link

73. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Soo Suh, Kyoo-Sik Shin, “A robust fault diagnosis for robot manipulators using third-order sliding mode observer”, Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and systems, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 665-669, 2012.

Ø Book chapter

• 1. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Shick Ro, “A robust fault detection and isolation scheme for robot manipulators based on neural networks”, Advanced Intelligent Computing, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 6838, pp. 25-32, 2012.

  2.  Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Fault tolerant control for robot manipulators using neural network and second-order sliding mode observer”, Intelligent Computing Theories, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 7995, pp. 526-535, 2013.

Ø International conference

1. Rajeem Thomas, Mien Van*, Mehrdad Dianati, Kabirat Olayemi, Wei Ding, "Robust Cybersecurity for Autonomous Vehicles Using Particle Filter Based Anomaly Detection", Accepted in the 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2025). (*corresponding author)

2. Luke Maguire, Mien Van*, Kabirat Olayemi, Sean Mcloone, LiDAR-Only Navigation of UGVs in Dynamic Environments via Graph Attention Networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, accepted, 2025.  (*corresponding author)

3. Peter James McConnellogue, Mien Van*, Rhyss McMullan, Ronan McElroy, Wasif Naeem, Safety Critical Control of a Quadrupedal Robot using MPC-CBF, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, accepted, 2025. (*corresponding author)

4. M. Campbell, G. Baruah, M. Karimirad, M. Van & V. Pakrashi, Experimental assessment of a semi-submersible floating solar platform subjected to wave and wind loading, RENEW 2024 conference.

5. Nhat Nguyen Minh, Stephen McIlvanna, Yuzhu Sun, Yan Jin, M Van*, "Enhancing Mobile Robot Navigation Safety and Efficiency through NMPC with Relaxed CBF in Dynamic Environments," 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) CASE 2024, (corresponding author).

6. Jack Close, Mien Van*, Stephen McIlvanna, "PID-Fixed Time Sliding Mode Control for Trajectory Tracking of AUVs under Disturbance," submitted to IFAC conference.

7. Shakya Bandara, Yan Jin, Mien Van, Dan Sun, Rao Fu, Patrick Curley, Glenn Rutherford and Colm Higgins, Compliance Induced Geometrical Errors in Milling Process by Parallel Kinematic Machines, 20th International Conference Manufacturing Research (ICMR) 2023

8. Stephen McIlvanna, Nhat Nguyen Minh, Yuzhu Sun, Wasif Naeem, M Van*, "Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Control Barrier Functions for Robot Manipulators," IECON 2023, (corresponding author),https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.11391.pdf

9. Shakya Bandara, Yan Jin, Mien Van, Dan Sun, Patrick Curley and Colm Higgins, Stiffness Measurement of Parallel Kinematic Machines Considering Gravity Effect, 19th International Conference Manufacturing Research (ICMR) 2022.

10. Dianhao Zhang, Mien Van, Sean Mcloone, Non-local GCN Based Attention for Human-Robot Collaboration, (Accepted for publication in IROS 2021)

11. Mavrovouniotis, M., Mien Van, and Yang, S. (2017) Pheromone modification strategy for the dynamic travelling salesman problem with weight changes. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2017

12. Mien Van, Denglu Wu, Hongliang Ren, Shuzi Sam Ge, “Condition monitoring for Image-based visual servoing using Kalman Filter,” 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’15), 2015.

13. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Shick Ro, “A robust detection and isolation scheme for incipient and abrupt faults in robot manipulator using neural network”, 6th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST), Vol. 1, pp. 313-316, 2011. 

14. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Quasi-continuous second-order sliding mode controller for control of robot manipulators”, International conference on Green and Human Information Technology, Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2013.

15. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, Young-Shick Ro, “A robust fault detection and isolation scheme for robot manipulators based on neural networks”, International Conference of Intelligent Computing, China, 2012.

16. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Fault tolerant control for robot manipulators using neural network and second-order sliding mode observer”, International Conference on Intelligent Computing, China, 2013.

17. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “Rolling element bearing fault diagnosis based on NLM de-noising and EMD-based feature extraction and PNN classifier”, The 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications.

18. Mien Van, Hee-Jun Kang, “A robust fault diagnosis for robot manipulators using third-order sliding mode observer”, 27th ICROS Annual Conference, 2012.