About me

I obtained Bachelor degree (Hons) in Civil Engineering in 2001 at Hochiminh University of Technology (HCMUT). After graduation, I was employed at HCMUT as an assistant lecturer for six months. From 2003 to 2006, I completed the PhD degree in Marine Control Systems at the Department of Civil Engineering, NUS in cooperation with the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU. My supervisors were Professor Quek Ser Tong and Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen.

Currently, I am a Post Doctorial Fellow at Center of Excellent for Ships and Ocean Structures (CESOS). My advisor is Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen. My research interests are supervisory control and nonlinear control with applications to marine control systems. I am currently working on the hybrid control system for positioning moored vessel. The project is funded by the Computational Methods in Nonlinear Motion Control (CMinMC) Group, Department of Engineering Cybernetics.

Publications

Journal papers

1. Nguyen T. D., Sørensen A. J. and Quek S. T. (2007). Design of High Level Hybrid Controller for Dynamic Positioning from Calm to Extreme Sea Conditions. Automatica, 43(5), pp. 768–785.

2. Nguyen T. D., Sørensen A. J. and Quek S. T. (2007). Multi-Operational Hybrid Controller Structure for Station Keeping and Transit Operations of Marine Vessels. To appear in IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology.

Conference papers

1. Vu K. K., Richard Liew J. Y., Li Y., Nguyen T. D. (2007). Lightweight deployable protective shelter - a benchmarking study. In Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Modern Design, Construction and Maintenance of Structures, (MDCMS 2007) Hanoi, Vietnam, December 10-11.

2. Nguyen H. D., S. T. Quek, and Nguyen T. D. (2007). Modelling of Drilling Marine Riser: Comparisons in Static Analysis. In Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Modern Design, Construction and Maintenance of Structures, (MDCMS 2007) Hanoi, Vietnam, December 10-11.

3. Nguyen T. D., Mogens B. and Sørensen A. J. (2007). Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control for Thruster-Assisted Position Mooring. In Proc. of IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS’07), Bol, Croatia, September 19-21.

4. Nguyen T. D. and A. J. Sørensen (2007). Setpoint Chasing for Thruster-Assisted Position Mooring. In Proc. of 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2007), San Diego, USA, June 10-15.

5. Nguyen T. D. and S. T. Quek (2007). Reliability of Switched Model-Based Controller for Vessel Dynamic Positioning with Switching under Estimated Motion Frequency. In Proc. of 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2007), San Diego, USA, June 10-15.

6. Nguyen T. D. (2007). Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control for Thruster-Assisted Position Mooring System. In 2nd Workshop on Marine Control Workshop 2007 (MARCOW'07), Oppdal, Norway, 15-16 February.

7. Nguyen T. D., N.S Ho and S. T. Quek, and A. J. Sørensen (2006). Thruster-Assisted Position Control of Turret-Moored FPSO. In Proceedings of KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Japan, December 10-12.

8. Nguyen T. D. (2006). Design of Hybrid Marine Control Systems for Dynamic Positioning. In 1st Workshop on Hybrid Marine Control Systems HyMarCS Oppdal, Norway, 16-17 February.

9. Nguyen T. D., A. J. Sørensen and S. T. Quek (2005c). Hybrid Controller for Dynamic Positioning from Calm to Extreme Seas – Experiments with a Model Ship. In Proceedings of KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Taiwan, December 18-21.

10. Sørensen A. J., S. T. Quek and T. D. Nguyen (2005). Improved Operability and Safety of DP Vessels Using Hybrid Control Concept. In Proceeding of International Conference on Technology and Operation of Offshore Support Vessels – OSV 2005, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 20-21 September.

11. Nguyen T. D., A. J. Sørensen and S. T. Quek (2004). Observer for Dynamic Positioning of Floating Structures in Extreme Seas. In Proceedings of KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Thailand, December 13-15.

12. Nguyen T. D. and S. T. Quek (2004). Position control of floating structures via slow-drift force ensemble simulations. In Proceedings of 23rd International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Conference, ASME, OMAE2004-51607, Vancouver, Canada, June 20-25.

13. Nguyen T. D. and S. T. Quek (2003). Dynamic Position Control of Floating Structures via Slow-Drift Force Ensemble Simulations. In Proceedings of KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Korea, December 8-10.

Thesis

Nguyen T. D. (2006). Design of Hybrid Marine Control Systems for Dynamic Positioning. PhD Thesis, Dept of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Some relevant links

Computational Methods in Nonlinear Motion Control (CMinMC).

Department of Engineering Cybernetics.

Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CESOS).

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Centre for Offshore Research & Engineering (CORE).

National University of Singapore (NUS).

Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen.

Professor Quek Ser Tong.