Quoc Van Tran

Journal Papers

18. D. S. Cao and Q. V. Tran, "Adaptive path-following control of underactuated surface vessels subject to unknown disturbances with uniform bounded lateral motion," International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), 23(6), pp. 1641-1651, June 2025. (SCIE Q2, IF 2.5)

17. Trinh, Minh; Tran, Quoc; Sun, Zhiyong; Ahn, Hyo-Sung, "Disturbance observer-based matrix-weighted consensus," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 34(15), pp. 10194-10214, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/rnc.7514 (SCIE Q1, IF 3.897)

16. C. Lee, Q. V. Tran, & J. Kim, "Safety-Guaranteed Ship Berthing using Cascade Tube-based Model Predictive Control," IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, vol. 32(4), pp. 1504-1511, 2024. (SCIE Q1, IF 5.418)

15. Q. V. Tran, "Fixed-Time Localization of Local Coordinate Frames: Interpretation and Applications to Formation Control Problems," International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), 21(12), pp. 4057-4066, Nov. 2023, DOI 10.1007/s12555-023-0113-4. (SCIE Q2, IF 3.2)

14. M.H. Vu, M. H. Trinh, Q. V. Tran, and Hyo-Sung Ahn, "Distance-based formation tracking of single- and double-integrator agents," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Jul. 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3299817. (ISI Q1, IF 6.8)

13. J.-G. Lee, Q. V. Tran, K.-H. Oh, P.G. Park, H.-S. Ahn, "Distributed object pose estimation over strongly connected networks." Systems & Control Letter, vol. 175, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2023.105505 (ISI Q1, IF 2.74)

12. Q. V. Tran, C. Lee, J. Kim, & N.Q. Hoang., "Robust Bearing-based Formation Tracking Control of Underactuated Surface Vessels: An Output Regulation Approach," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 10(4), pp.2048-2059, Dec. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2023.3259105. (SCIE Q1, IF 4.347)

11. Q. V. Tran, B. D. O. Anderson, and H.-S. Ahn, Authors' Reply to `Comments on "Pose localization of leader-follower networks with direction measurements" [Automatica 120 (2020) 109125]', Automatica, pp. 10950, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2023.110950. (ISI Q1, IF 6.15)

10. Q. V. Tran, M. H. Trinh, N. H. Nguyen, H.-S. Ahn, "Free-will arbitrary time consensus protocols with diffusive coupling," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2022, vol. 32(15), 2022. Preprint, simulation video

Publications from #10- are affiliated with HUST.

9. Q.V. Tran* and J.H. Kim, "Bearing-constrained formation tracking control of nonholonomic agents without inter-agent communication," IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), vol. 6, pp. 2401-2406, Mar. 2022 (affiliated with KAIST). arXiv version, simulation_video

8. Q. V. Tran, Z. Sun, B. D. O. Anderson, and H.-S. Ahn, “Distributed optimization for graph matching," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 53(8), pp. 4815–4828, 2023 (IF 19.118 ).

7. M. H. Trinh, Q.V. Tran, D. V. Vu, P. Nguyen, H.-S. Ahn, "Robust tracking control of bearing-constrained leader-follower formation," Automatica, vol. 131, no. 109733, Sept. 2021.

Published before May 2021:

6. Q. V. Tran, M. H. Trinh, and H.-S. Ahn, " Discrete-time matrix weighted consensus," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 8(4), pp. 1568-1578, Dec. 2021. Preprint

5. Q. V. Tran, B. D. O. Anderson, and Hyo-Sung Ahn, "Pose localization of leader-follower networks with direction measurements," Automatica, vol. 120, pp. 109125, Oct. 2020. Tech Report.

4. Q. V. Tran and H.-S. Ahn, "Distributed formation control of mobile agents via global orientation estimation," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1654-1664 , Dec. 2020.

3. H.-S. Ahn, Q. V. Tran, M.H. Trinh, M. Ye, J. Liu, and K.L. Moore, "Opinion dynamics with cross-coupling topics: modeling and analysis," IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 632 - 647, 2020.

2. M. H. Trinh, Q. V. Tran, and H-S. Ahn, "Minimal and redundant bearing rigidity: Conditions and applications," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65. no. 10, pp. 4186--4200, Oct. 2020.

1. Q. V. Tran, M. H. Trinh, D. Zelazo, D. Mukherjee, and H.-S. Ahn, “Finite-time bearing-only formation control via distributed global orientation estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 702--712, June 2019.

Domestic journals:

Q. V. Tran and Q..-H. Nguyen, "Robust Adaptive Path Following Controllers for Autonomous Surface Vehicles with Unknown Disturbances," Journal of Science and Technology: Smart Systems and Devices, vol. 34(3), pp. 43-51, 2024.

Submitted Journals:

Q. V. Tran, "Continuous Robust Formation Tracking Controllers for Underactuated Planar Agents," submitted to RNC, Nov. 2024.
Q. V. Tran & V. V. Nguyen, "Distance-Constrained Formation Tracking of Nonholonomic Agents Using Only Relative Positions in Local Coordinates," submitted to TCNS, June 2025.

Conference Papers

T. V. Quoc, D. D. Khoa, P. T. Chung, "Formation maneuver of wheeled mobile robots based on attitude estimation," Proc. the 4th Annual International Conference on Material, Machines, and Methods for Sustainable Development, Danang, Sept. 2024, pp.
Q. V. Tran, V. V. Nguyen, H. Q. Nguyen, "Robust path following control of autonomous surface vessels," Proc. International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems, Yeosu, Oct. 2023, pp. 945 - 948.
Q. V. Tran, "Formation Tracking Control of Heterogeneous Underactuated Planar Agents with Stable Internal Dynamics," in Proc. IEEE IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, Singapore, Dec. 2023, pp. 5153-5158 .
M H Trinh, V D Vu, Q V Tran, H-S Ahn, "Matrix-scaled consensus," in Proc. the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun 2022, pp. 346-351.
H.M. Nguyen, H. M. Nguyen, V. H. Pham, Q. V. Tran, C. V. Nguyen, M. H. Trinh, and H.-S. Ahn, "Adaptive Consensus Algorithms for Matrix-Weighted Networks with Parametric Uncertainties," in Proc. 2022 11th International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS), Hanoi, 2022. (Student Best Paper Award)
C. Lee, Q. V. Tran, and J. Kim, "Robust Path Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance using Tube-based Model Predictive Control for Surface Vehicles," the 14th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles, (CAMS 2022), Copenhagen 16-18 Sept., IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol.55, iss. 31, 2022, pp. 301-306, ISSN 2405-8963.
Q.V. Tran* and H.-S. Ahn, "Further analysis on structure and spectral properties of symmetric graphs," European Control Conference (ECC), London, July 2022, pp. 2183-2188 (also affiliated with HUST). arXiv version
Q.V. Tran*, H.-S. Ahn, and J.H. Kim, "Direction-only orientation alignment of leader-follower networks," 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, June 2022, pp. 2142-2147, doi: 10.23919/ACC53348.2022.9867624 (also affiliated with HUST). Preprint
M.H. Trinh, H.M. Nguyen, Q.V. Tran, and H.-S. Ahn, "Matrix-weighted consensus algorithms for Euler-Lagrange systems," the 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Jeju, May 4-7, 2022.
Q. V. Tran, Z. Sun, B. D. O. Anderson, and H.-S. Ahn, “Distributed computation of graph matching in multi-agent networks,” the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Jeju, Dec. 2020, pp. 3139-3144 .
N. M. Hung, Q. V. Tran, J. Liu, H.-S. Ahn, "Resource allocation for epidemic network under complications," the 19th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS) , Jeju, Oct. 2019, pp. 1512-1516.
Q. V. Tran and Hyo-Sung Ahn, "Distributed cooperative object pose estimation in multi-sensor networks," the 19th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS) , Jeju, Oct. 2019, pp. 1534-1537.
Q. V. Tran and Hyo-Sung Ahn, "Multi-agent localization of a common reference coordinate frame: An extrinsic approach," IFAC NecSys, Chicago, Sept 2019, iss. 20, vol. 52, pp. 67-72.
H.S. Ahn, K. L. Moore, S.-H. Kwon, Q. V. Tran, B.-Y. Kim, K.-K. Oh, "Topological controllability of undirected networks of diffusively-coupled agents", SICE Annual Conference, Japan, 2019, pp. 673-678. SICE Anual Conference Award (International Award ) .
Q. V. Tran, H.-S. Ahn, and B. D. O. Anderson, “Distributed orientation localization of multi-agent systems in 3-dimensional space with direction-only measurements,” in Proc. the 57th IEEE Confer. Decision Control (CDC), Miami, Dec. 2018, pp. 2883-2889.
Q. V. Tran and H.-S. Ahn, “Flocking and bearing-based formation control," ICCAS 2018, Pyeong Chang, Oct. 2018, pp. 124-129 . (Student Best Paper Award).
Q. V. Tran, H.-S. Ahn, and S.-H Park, “Bearing-based formation control via distributed position estimation,” in Proc. 2nd IEEE Confer. Control Technology and Applications, Copenhagen , Aug. 2018, pp. 658-663. [paper]
M. H. Trinh, D. Zelazo, Q. V. Tran, and H.-S. Ahn, “Pointing consensus for rooted out-branching graphs,” in Proc. 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC) , Milwaukee, June 2018, pp. 3648-3653.
Q. V. Tran, Minh Hoang Trinh, Hyo-Sung Ahn, "Surrounding formation of star frameworks using bearing-only measurements", 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), Limassol, Cyprus, June 12-15, 2018, pp. 368-373.
Q V. Tran, S Kim, K Lee, J Ryu, “Preliminary results of force/torque sensorless impedance control for Walkbot,” 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI) , Goyang , 28-30 Oct. 2015 , pp. 597-602.
Q. V. Tran, S. Kim, K. Lee, S. Kang, J. Ryu, "Force/torque sensorless impedance control for indirect driven robot-aided gait rehabilitation system ", in Proc. IEEE Int. Confer. Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Busan, 2015, pp. 652-657.

Domestic Conferences & Presentations

Nguyễn Văn Vinh, Cao Thành Trung, Trần Văn Quốc, Một phương pháp điều khiển hình học đơn giản cho phương tiện phi hôlônôm, HỘI NGHỊ CƠ HỌC TOÀN QUỐC Kỷ niệm 45 năm thành lập Viện Cơ học, 2024, pp. 745-753.
Nguyễn Quang Hoàng, Trần Văn Quốc, Đinh Văn Phong, Giải động học ngược tay máy robot nối tiếp dư dẫn động dựa vào ma trận Jacobi và thuật giải di truyền, HỘI NGHỊ CƠ HỌC TOÀN QUỐC Kỷ niệm 45 năm thành lập Viện Cơ học, 2024, pp. 577-586.
Tran Van Quoc and Nguyen Quang Hoang, "Điều khiển đội hình hệ đa tác tử phi hôlônôm sử dụng véc tơ hướng," Hội nghị Cơ học toàn quốc NACOME 22, Hanoi, Nov. 2022, pp. 202-211.
Nguyễn Quang Hoàng and Trần Văn Quốc, "Động học ngược tay máy robot không gian sáu bậc tự do có độ lệch tại vai và cổ tay sử dụng các tham số Euler," Hội nghị Cơ học toàn quốc NACOME 22, Hanoi, Nov. 2022, pp. 84 - 94.
Q. V. Tran and H.-S. Ahn, "Distributed matching of cyber and physical systems," ICCAS21, Jeju, Oct. 2021.
M. H. Trinh, Q. V. Tran, H.-S. Ahn, "A method to generate generically bearing rigid graphs", presented at VCCA, Hanoi, Sept. 2019.
Q. V. Tran and H.-S. Ahn, "On the unfriendliness of symmetric graphs", ICROS 2021.

Technical Reports

Q.V. Tran*, H.-S. Ahn, and J.H. Kim, "Direction-only orientation alignment of leader-follower networks," 2022, arXiv:2202.02224 [math.OC].
Q. V. Tran, M. H. Trinh, and H.-S. Ahn, Discrete time matrix weighted consensus, 2020, arXiv:2006.15530 [math.OC] .
Q. V. Tran, Z. Sun, B. D. O. Anderson, and H.-S. Ahn, “Distributed computation of graph matching in multi-agent networks,” 2020, arXiv:2002.08586 [math.OC].
Q. V. Tran and H.-S. Ahn, "Multi-agent Localization of A Common Reference Coordinate Frame: An Extrinsic Approach," arXiv:1905.03924 [math.OC]. [paper]
Q. V. Tran, Brian D. O. Anderson, and H.-S. Ahn, "Pose Localization of Leader-Follower Networks with Direction Measurements," arXiv:1910.03978 [math.OC] .

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