Fields of Research

Special vehicles
Ship and platform structures (incl. maritime hydrodynamics)
Field robotics
Intelligent robotics
Marine engineering
Ocean engineering
Simulation, modelling, and programming of mechatronics systems
Autonomous vehicle systems
Navigation and position fixing
Naval architecture
Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)
Higher education
Maritime engineering
Automation engineering
Aerospace materials
Signal processing
Dynamical systems in applications
Electrical engineering
Transportation, logistics and supply chains
Calculus of variations, mathematical aspects of systems theory and control theory
Numerical analysis
Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics)

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in engineering
Water transport
Intelligence, surveillance and space
Nautical equipment
Autonomous water vehicles
Automotive equipment
Renewable energy
Maritime
Processing of energy sources
Coastal sea freight transport
Other transport
Policies and development
Energy storage, distribution and supply
Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences
Measurement and assessment of freshwater quality (incl. physical and chemical conditions of water)
Marine systems and management
Antarctic and Southern Ocean oceanic processes
Computer, electronic and communication equipment
Smart grids
Natural hazards
Oil and gas processing
Industrial instruments
Integrated systems

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A Challenge to Advanced Autopilot Systems for Ships; 4th Vietnam Conference of Automation (VICA4)
A heading observer for ROVs under roll and pitch oscillations and acceleration disturbances using low-cost sensors; Ocean Engineering
A hybrid energy management and battery size optimization for standalone microgrids: a case study for Flinders Island, Australia; Energy Conversion and Management
A Modified Self-Tuning Pole Assignment Typed Autopilot System; Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation
A New and Effective Method for Estimation of Ship Hydrodynamic Coefficients; 4th Vietnam Conference of Automation (VICA4)
A Pole Assignment Type of Autopilot using the RPE Method; Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation
A practical approach to the dynamic modelling of an underwater vehicle propeller in all four quadrants of operation; Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
A Self-tuning Nonlinear PID Controller for a Three-Thruster Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle; The Second Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation
A survey on marine control systems; The 1st Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation
Acoustic search and detection of oil plumes using an autonomous underwater vehicle; Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
An Adaptive Optimal Autopilot using the Recursive Prediction Error Method; 5th IFAC Conference on Maneuvring and Control off marine Crafts (MCMC 2000)
Applications of REALoop to Measurement, Simulation and Control of a Dynamic System ; 4th Vietnam Conference of Automation (VICA4)
Artificial potential field for remotely operated vehicle haptic control in dynamic environments; Journal of Systems and Control Engineering (Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I)
Assessing Hydrocarbon presence in the waters of Port au Port bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, for AUV oil spill delineation tests; The Journal of Ocean Technology
Australia's potential in low emissions vessel development; 2021 Climate Smart Engineering Conference
AUV adaptive sampling to delineate subsurface oil plumes; 2020 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Symposium
AUVSIPRO - a simulation program for performance prediction of autonomous underwater vehicle with different propulsion system configurations; Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems (MESAS 2017)
Characterisation of waves via the Lax-Wendroff method; Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy
Command governor adaptive control for an unmanned underwater vehicle; 2015 IEEE Control Systems Society Multiconference on systems and control
Command governor adaptive control for unmanned underwater vehicles with measurement noise and actuator dead-zone; MERCon 2016: Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference
Composite model reference adaptive control for an unmanned underwater vehicle; Underwater Technology
Computational Fluid Dynamics Re-Mesh Method to Generating Hydrodynamic Models for Maneuvring Simulation of Two Submerged Bodies in Relative Motion; Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics
Considerations regarding the use of rigid sails on modern powered ships; Cogent Engineering
Cultivating Graduate Attributes in First Year Students; International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education
Design of computer simulator-based learning modules and assessments for a subject in Control Engineering; 24th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
Design, modelling and simulation of a remotely operated vehicle - Part 1; Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics
Design, modelling and simulation of a remotely operated vehicle - Part 2; Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics
Designs of Self-Turning Control Systems for Ships; Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation
Development and control of a low-cost, three-thruster, remotely operated underwater vehicle; International Journal of Automation Technology
Development and modelling of a three-thurster remotely operated vehicle using open source hardware; 17th International Conference On Mechatronics Technology
Development of a Numerical Model for the Hydrodynamic Performance Analysis of a Collective and Cyclic Pitch Propeller; Fifth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors - smp'17
Dynamic system identification of underwater vehicles using multi-output Gaussian processes; International Journal of Automation and Computing
Emerging technologies in marine electric propulsion; Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Proceedings. Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
Enhancement of AUV autonomy using backseat driver control architecture; International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research
Estimation of Ship Hydrodynamic Coefficients in Harbor Maneuvers and its Applications; 11 IFAC Workshop: Control Applications of Optimization (CAO2000)
Experimental and numerical study of autopilot using Extended Kalman Filter trained neural networks for surface vessels; International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Experimental characterization of collective and cyclic pitch propulsion for underwater vehicle; 3rd International Symposium on Marine Propulsors
Experimental comparison of two composite MRAC methods for UUV operations with low adaptation gains; IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
Experimental study of a command governor adaptive depth controller for an unmanned underwater vehicle; Applied Ocean Research
Experimental study of a modified command governor adaptive controller for depth control of an unmanned underwater vehicle; Journal of Marine Science and Application
Experimental study of command governor adaptive control for unmanned underwater vehicles; I E E E Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Experimental study of intelligent autopilot for surface vessels based on neural network Optimised PID controller; 2019 Chinese Control And Decision Conference (CCDC)
Experimental Study of the Collective and Cyclic Pitch Propeller for an Underwater Vehicle; Journal of Marine Science and Application
Exploration of the applicability of probabilistic inference for learning control in underactuated autonomous underwater vehicles; Autonomous Robots
Fuzzy gain scheduling based optimally tuned PID controllers for an unmanned underwater vehicle; International journal of conceptions on electronics and communication engineering
GNSS - Current Status and Applications in Automation in Vietnam; 6th Vietnam Conference of Automation (VICA6)
Grey wolf optimization-based optimum energy-management and battery-sizing method for grid-connected microgrids; Energies
Haptic driving system for surge motion control of underwater remotely operated vehicles; 6th International conference on modelling, identification and control
Hydrodynamic performance analysis of a collective and cyclic pitch propeller under bollard pull condition through numerical evaluation of two-dimensional pitching hydrofoils; Journal of Ship Research
Ian Telfer Prize
Improved hydrodynamic performance of a collective and cyclic pitch propeller by numerical evaluation of the blade design; Ocean Engineering: An International Journal of Research and Development
Lowering Perforated Plate through Splash Zone under Different Sea States; The 6th Society for Underwater Technology Technical Conference (SUTTC) 2017
Machine learning post processing of underwater vehicle pressure sensor array for speed measurement; Ocean Engineering
Marine automatic control systems using recursive estimation procedures; International Maritime Conference (Pacific 2004)
Modeling, simulation and control of a cyclic and collective pitch propeller for underwater vehicles; The 1st Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation
Modeling, simulation and control of underwater vehicles; The 1st Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation (VCCA 2011)
Modelling and Simulation of a Remotely Operated Vehicle; 6th Vietnam Conference on Mechatronics (VCM2012)
Modelling and simulation of a surface vessel by experimental approach with low-cost sensors; 2017 Asian Control Conference, ASCC 2017
Modelling of a surface vessel from free running test using low cost sensors; 2017 3rd International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR)
Multitask Automatic Manoeuvring Systems Using Recursive Optimal Control Algorithms; Hanoi University of Technology International Conference on Communications and Electronics
Neural networks based control for an autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with the collective and cyclic pitch propeller; First International Conference on Fluid Machinery and Automation Systems 2018
Non-parametric dynamic system identification of ships using multi-output Gaussian Processes; Ocean Engineering
Numerical design of the forces generated by a collective and cyclic pitch propeller - force magnitude and phase shift; Sixth International Symposium on Marine Propulsors
Numerical modelling of the hydrodynamic performance of sinusoidally pitching hydrofoils; 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (20AFMC)
Numerical simulation of spheres in relative motion using dynamic meshing techniques; 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
Oil plume mapping: adaptive tracking and adaptive sampling from an autonomous underwater vehicle; IEEE Access
Omnidirectional Control of an Underwater Vehicle Equipped with a Collective and Cyclic Pitch Propeller; The Second Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation
On Advanced Supporting Systems and Techniques for a Fully Automated Ship in the 21st Century; 4th Vietnam Conference of Automation (VICA4)
Optimal control of an autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with the collective and cyclic pitch propeller; 2017 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC)
Optimal sizing of battery energy storage systems for dynamic frequency control in an islanded microgrid: a case study of Flinders Island, Australia; Energy
Path following for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) by using a high-gain observer based on an AUV dynamic model; 12th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles (CAMS 2019)
Performance Evaluation of an Underwater Vehicle Equipped with a Collective and Cyclic Pitch Propeller; The 9th IFAC Conference of Control Applications in Marine Systems 2013
Position estimation for underwater vehicles using unscented Kalman filter with Gaussian process prediction; Underwater Technology
Predictor-based model reference adaptive control of an unmanned underwater vehicle; 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics & Vision
Quantitative manoeuvring characteristics of an underwater vehicle equipped with collective and cyclic pitch propeller; First International Conference on Fluid Machinery and Automation Systems 2018
Quasi-static analysis of the hydrodynamic interaction effects on an autonomous underwater vehicle operating in proximity to a moving submarine; Ocean Engineering
Radial basis function neural network based rudder roll stabilization for ship sailing in waves; 2015 5th Australian Control Conference (AUCC)
RANS-based CFD prediction of the hydrodynamic coefficients of DARPA suboff geometry in straight-line and rotating arm manoeuvres; International Journal of Maritime Engineering
Real-time control and hardware-in-the-loop simulation of surface vessels for multitask missions at seas; The 1st Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation
Recursive identification of ship manoeuvring dynamics and hydrodynamics; ANZIAM Journal
Recursive Optimal Manoeuvring Systems for Maritime Search and Rescue Mission; OCEANS'04 MTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN'04 (OTO'04)
Risk assessment and reserve requirements for power systems with high wind power penetration; CIGRE 2018
Rudder roll damping autopilot using dual extended Kalman Filter–trained neural networks for ships in waves; Journal of Marine Science and Application
Scaling and relative size effects on the hydrodynamic interaction on an UUV operating close to a submarine; Warship 2014: Naval Submarines and UUVs
Ship's Optimal Autopilot with a Multivariate Auto-Regressive Exogenous Model; 11th IFAC Workshop: Control Applications of Optimization (CAO2000)
Study Toward a 21st Century's Fully Automated Ship; ISSOT'98 - The International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers on Transportation and Infrastructure Planning
Technologies for Under-Ice AUV Navigation; 2016 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, AUV 2016
The hydrodynamic interaction effects on a fully appended AUV operating near a moving submarine; Pacific International Maritime Conference 2015
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects Medal of Distinction
Transient analysis of hydrodynamic interaction effects on an autonomous underwater vehicle in proximity of a moving submarine; International Journal of Maritime Engineering
Uncertainty estimation of a CFD-methodology for the performance analysis of a collective and cyclic pitch propeller; Applied Ocean Research
Unscented Kalman Filter trained neural network control design for ship autopilot with experimental and numerical approaches; Applied Ocean Research
Unscented Kalman Filter trained neural networks based rudder roll stabilization system for ship in waves; Applied Ocean Research
URANS prediction of the slamming coefficients for perforated plates during water entry; Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Part A: International Journal of Maritime Engineering
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Re-Mesh to Generate Hydrodynamic Models for Manoeuvering Simulation of Two Submerged Bodies in Relative Motion; The 1st Vietnam Conference on Control and Automation
Vietnam Marine Transport: Its Current Issues and Future Development Directions; ISSOT'98 - The International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers on Transportation and Infrastructure Planning
WHC Nicholas Prize

Research Projects

The Development of Omni-Directional Thrust for Control of Maratime Vehicles; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Loan of Mullaya Underwater Vehicle

Research Candidate Supervision

A Characterisation of the Hydrodynamic Forces in an Underwater Two Body Interaction Scenario
Analysis and Design of an Upgraded Electric Drive System for the Greenliner Prototype Vessel
Modeling and Simulation of a ROV/AUV Equipped with a Collective and Cyclic Pitch Propeller (CCPP)
Modelling and Real Time Simulation of a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle
Numerical Investigation into Hydrodynamic Interaction between Two Submerged Bodies Moving in Respect to One Another using Openfoam CFD Code within Matlab
Performance and Control of a Collective and Cyclic Pitch Propeller for an Underwater Vehicle
Real-Time Measurement and Control Systems of (AUVs) Using Open-Source Software and Microcontrollers - Experimental Approach