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Research Interests

Soft sensors and actuators, path planning, manipulator control, SLAM

Education

• 2014-2021: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering,  Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Hyungpil Moon)

• 2006-2011: Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering,  Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam (Advisor: Prof.  Nguyen Van Khang)

Working Experiences

• 2011-2014: Lecturer, Thai Nguyen University of Technology, Vietnam

• 2021-present: Postdoc at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Park, Jeongyeol, Tuan Luong*, and Hyungpil Moon*. "Development of a Wheel-Type In-Pipe Robot Using Continuously Variable Transmission Mechanisms for Pipeline Inspection." Biomimetics 9, no. 2 (2024): 113 (Co-corresponding).

2. Kim, W., Luong, T.*, Ha, Y., Doh, M., Yax, J. F. M., & Moon, H. *(2023). High-Fidelity Drone Simulation with Depth Camera Noise and Improved Air Drag Force Models. Applied Sciences, 13(19), 10631 (Co-corresponding).

3. Jeon, J., Jung, H. R., Luong, T., Yumbla, F., & Moon, H. (2022). Combined task and motion planning system for the service robot using hierarchical action decomposition. Intelligent Service Robotics, 15(4), 487-501. 

4. Yi, J. S., Luong, T. A., Chae, H., Ahn, M. S., Noh, D., Tran, H. N., ... & Moon, H. (2022). An Online Task-Planning Framework Using Mixed Integer Programming for Multiple Cooking Tasks Using a Dual-Arm Robot. Applied Sciences, 12(8), 4018. 

5. Hudoklin, J., Seo, S., Kang, M., Seong, H., Luong, Tuan, & Moon, H. (2022). Vacuum Suction Cup Modeling for Evaluation of Sealing and Real-time Simulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 3616-3623.

6. Jeon, J., Jung, H. R., Yumbla, F., Luong, Tuan, & Moon, H. (2022). Primitive Action Based Combined Task and Motion Planning for the Service Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9.

7. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Hudoklin, J., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, H. (2022). Variable Stiffness Robotic Hand Driven By Twisted-Coiled Polymer Actuators. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

8. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Jeon, J., Park, C., Doh, M., Ha, Y., ... & Moon, H. (2022). Soft artificial muscle with proprioceptive feedback: design, modeling and control. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 4797-4804.

9. Park, C., Doh, M., Ha, Y., Coutinho, A., Luong, Tuan, Choi, I., ... & Moon, H. (2022). Simultaneous Positive and Negative Pressure Control Using Disturbance Observer Compensating Coupled Disturbance Dynamics. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 5763-5770.

10. Luong, Tuan, Kim, K., Seo, S., Jeon, J., Park, C., Doh, M., ... & Moon, H. (2021). Long short term memory model based position-stiffness control of antagonistically driven twisted-coiled polymer actuators using model predictive control. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2), 4141-4148.

11. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Kim, K., Jeon, J., Yumbla, F., Koo, J. C., ... & Moon, H. (2021). Realization of a simultaneous position-stiffness controllable antagonistic joint driven by twisted-coiled polymer actuators using model predictive control. IEEE Access, 9, 26071-26082.

12. Yi, J. S., Yumbla, F., Auh, E., Abayebas, M., Luong, Tuan, & Moon, H. (2021). Passive Aligning of Ribbon Cable in Sliding Surface Gripper for Assembly Task. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 13(2).

13. Luong, Tuan, Cho, K. H., Song, M. G., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, H. (2018). Nonlinear tracking control of a conductive supercoiled polymer actuator. Soft robotics, 5(2), 190-203.

14. Luong, Tuan, & Nguyen, Van Khang (2013). A comparisison of some numerical methods for computing the inverse kinematics of redundant parallel robots. Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, 29(1), 3-16

Conference Presentations

      International Conference

1. Tuan Luong, Sungwon Seo, Jeongmin Jeon, Chanyong Park, Myeongyun Doh, Sanghyun Park, Francisco Yumbla, Hyungpil Moon. "Design and Fabrication of an Array of Touch Sensor for Robotic Applications." In 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Auckland, New Zealand, 2023.

2. Francisco Yumbla, Tuan Luong, Hyungpil Moon, et al. "Wire Harness Connectors Mating Process by Dual-arm Co-Manipulation using Maximum Manipulability." In 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Auckland, New Zealand, 2023.

3. Luong, Tuan, Chanyong Park, Myeongyun Doh, Yoonwoo Ha, and Hyungpil Moon. "Impedance control of antagonistically driven SMA springs." In 2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 307-312. IEEE, 2022. 

4. Park, Chanyong, Sangchul Han, Myeongyun Doh, Yoonwoo Ha, Anh Tuan Luong, and Hyungpil Moon. "Object Inserting Operation with Admittance Control of A 4-DOF Hydraulic Manipulator with Rotary Vane Actuators." In 2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 82-87. IEEE, 2022. 

5. Pico, Nabih, Sang-Hyeon Park, Tuan Luong, Juan Medrano, and Hyungpil Moon. "Terrain Recognition Based on the Wheel Contact Angle Measurement using Laser Scanners for Six-Wheel Mobile Robot." In 2022 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), pp. 23-29. IEEE, 2022. 

6. Yumbla, Francisco, Juan Medrano, Edwin Valarezo, Hong-Ryul Jung, Tuan Luong, Sungwon Seo, Jinjae Shin, and Hyungpil Moon. "Design of a Conveyor Belt Manipulator for Reposition of Boxes in Logistics Centers." In 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 2225-2230. IEEE, 2022. 

7. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Hudoklin, J., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, Hyungpil (2022). Variable stiffness robotic hand driven by twisted-coiled polymer actuators. In 2022 international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA). IEEE, Philadelphia, USA.

8. Hudoklin, J., Seo, S., Kang, M., Seong, H., Luong, Tuan, & Moon, Hyungpil (2022). Vacuum suction cup modeling for evaluation of sealing and real-time simulation. In 2022 international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA). IEEE, Philadelphia, USA.

9. J., Chanyong, Luong, Tuan, H., Moon, Hyungpil, et al. (2022). Simultaneous positive and negative pressure control using disturbance observer compensating coupled disturbance dynamics. In 5th ieee-ras international conference on soft robotics (RoboSoft). IEEE, Edinburgh, Scotland.

10. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Jeongmin, H., Moon, Hyungpil, et al. (2022). Soft artificial muscle with proprioceptive feedback: Design, modeling and control. In 5th ieee-ras international conference on soft robotics (RoboSoft). IEEE, Edinburgh, Scotland.

11. Luong, Tuan, Moon, Hyungpil, et al. (2021). Long short term memory model based position-stiffness control of antagonistically driven twisted-coiled polymer actuators using model predictive control. In 2021 international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA). IEEE, Xian, China (Virtual).

12. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Kim, K., Jeon, J., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, Hyungpil (2021). Hysteresis modeling of twisted-coiled polymer actuators using long short term memory networks. In Iftomm asian conference on mechanism and machine science (pp. 590–599), Springer (Best Paper Award).

13. Sungwon, S., Luong, Tuan, Eugene, A., & Moon, Hyungpil (2021). Depth hole filling based on deep learning for robust grasp detection. In 2021 18th international conference on ubiquitous robots (UR) (pp. 194–197). IEEE, Gangneung, South Korea.

14. Luong, Tuan, Kim, K., Seo, S., Jeon, J., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, Hyungpil (2020). Simultaneous position-stiffness control of antagonistically driven twisted-coiled polymer actuators using model predictive control. In 2020 ieee/rsj international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS). IEEE, Las Vegas, USA (Virtual).

15. Yumbla, F., Abeyabas, M., Luong, Tuan, Yi, J.-S., & Moon, Hyungpil (2020). Preliminary connector recognition system based on image processing for wire harness assembly tasks. In 2020 20th international conference on control, automation and systems (ICCAS) (pp. 1146–1150). IEEE. Busan, South Korea.

16. Yumbla, F., Woo, S., Yumbla, E. Q., Luong, Tuan, & Moon, Hyungpil (2020). Motions analysis for stair climbing by two or three steps and cross over an obstacle for a quadruped robot. In 2020 20th international conference on control, automation and systems (ICCAS) (pp. 262–267). IEEE. Busan, South Korea.

17. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, Hyungpil (2019). An adaptive backstepping terminal sliding mode control for Stewart platforms. In 2019 16th international conference on ubiquitous robots (UR) (pp. 641–647). IEEE. Jeju, South Korea.

18. Choi, D., Jeon, J., Lee, E., Luong, Tuan, & Moon, Hyungpil (2018). Knowledge based manipulation system for elderly care service. In Hri 2018 workshop on social human-robot interaction of human-care service robots, Chicago, IL, USA.

19. Lee, E., Choi, D., Luong, Tuan, Jeon, J., & Moon, Hyungpil (2018). Stable pushing manipulation with controlled two-point contact conditions for two-arm differential drive mobile robot. In 2018 15th international conference on ubiquitous robots (UR) (pp. 743–748). IEEE. Hawaii, USA.

20. Luong, Tuan, Kim, K., Seo, S., Park, J. H., Kim, Moon, Hyungpil, et al. (2018). Impedance control of a high performance twisted-coiled polymer actuator. In 2018 ieee/rsj international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS) (pp. 8701–8706). IEEE, Madrid, Spain.

21. Luong, Tuan, Kim, K., Seo, S., Park, J. H., Kim, Moon, Hyungpil, et al. (2018). Modeling and position control of a high performance twisted-coiled polymer actuator. In 2018 15th international conference on ubiquitous robots (UR) (pp. 73–79). IEEE, Jeju, South Korea.

22. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Jeon, J., Park, J., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, Hyungpil (2017). Continuous terminal sliding mode control with perturbation estimation for a stewart platform. In 2017 14th international conference on ubiquitous robots and ambient intelligence (UR) (pp. 360–365). IEEE. Jeju, South Korea (Outstanding Paper Award)

23. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Koo, J. C., Choi, H. R., & Moon, Hyungpil (2017). Differential hysteresis modeling with adaptive parameter estimation of a super-coiled polymer actuator. In Ubiquitous robots and ambient intelligence (UR), 2017 14th international conference on (pp. 607–612). IEEE, Jeju, South Korea.

24. Luong, Tuan, Yi, J.-S., Seo, S., Kim, S., & Moon, Hyungpil (2016). Array of touch sensor: Elimination of shadowing-effect for robotic applications. In International conference on control, automation and systems (ICCAS), Gyeongju, South Korea.

25. Luong, Tuan, Nguyen, V. D., & Nguyen, Van Khang (2013). A comparative study on the computational efficiency of some numerical methods for solving the inverse kinematics of redundant robots. In Proc. of the 3th iftomm international symposium on robotics and mechatronics, Singapore.

26. Luong, Tuan, & Nguyen, Van Khang (2013). On the sliding mode control of redundant parallel robots using neural networks. In Proc. of the 3th iftomm international symposium on robotics and mechatronics, Singapore.

      Domestic Conference

1. Luong, Tuan, & Moon, Hyungpil (2017). Parameter optimization for step climbing mobile robot using Taguchi method. In 15th korea robotics society annual conference (KROC), Pyeongjang, South Korea.

2. Luong, Tuan, Seo, S., Choi, H., & Moon, Hyungpil (2017). Adaptive pid sliding mode control for motion tracking of super coiled actuators. In 12th korea robotics society annual conference (KROC), Pyeongchang, South Korea

Patents

1. Digital Type Sensor For Force Measurement, https://patents.google.com/patent/KR101726066B1/ko (2017, domestic)

2. 밴딩 타입 이송장치 (2021, domestic, submitted)

Awards

1. Brain Korea 21 (BK21) post-doctoral fellowship  funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Korea and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (2021).

2. Best Paper Award at The 7th IFToMM Conference on Asian Mechanism and Machine Science (2021).

3. Outstanding Paper Award at The 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (UR 2017).

4. Best Poster Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (2018).

Services

Review   

    Journal

• Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

• Soft Robotics 

• Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM)

• Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

• Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)

• Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH) 

• Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical 

• Measurement

    Conference

• International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems (IROS)

• International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)

• International Conference on Soft Robots (RoboSoft)

• International Conference on Robotics and Automation  (ICRA)

       Organizing

• Mechanical Engineering Conference, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2022 (Organizing Committee)

Projects

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