Publications
Journal articles, conference papers and preprints.
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2026
- T-FR
A Semi-Autonomous Robotic System for In Situ Soil Sampling, Analysis, and Mapping in Precision Agriculture
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics, 3, 22–39 · 2026
BibTeX for A Semi-Autonomous Robotic System for In Situ Soil Sampling, Analysis, and Mapping in Precision Agriculture
@article{nguyen2025soilsampling, title = {A Semi-Autonomous Robotic System for In Situ Soil Sampling, Analysis, and Mapping in Precision Agriculture}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Muller, Erik and Rubin, Michael R. and Wang, Xiaofei and Sibona, Fiorella and McBratney, Alex and Sukkarieh, Salah}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics}, year = {2026}, volume = {3}, pages = {22--39}, doi = {10.1109/TFR.2025.3641874}, }
2025
- CEA
A heterogeneous sensing system for soil moisture mapping in agricultural environments
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 239, 110932 · 2025
BibTeX for A heterogeneous sensing system for soil moisture mapping in agricultural environments
@article{nguyen2025soilmoisture, month = dec, title = {A heterogeneous sensing system for soil moisture mapping in agricultural environments}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Yu, Hongjun and Muller, Erik and Askey, Sarah and van der Markt, Martijn and Sukkarieh, Salah}, journal = {Computers and Electronics in Agriculture}, year = {2025}, doi = {10.1016/j.compag.2025.110932}, volume = {239}, pages = {110932} } - RA-L
Multivariate Active Learning and Adaptive Sampling With Multi-Kernel Gaussian Processes
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10(7), 6584–6591 · 2025
BibTeX for Multivariate Active Learning and Adaptive Sampling With Multi-Kernel Gaussian Processes
@article{nguyen2025activelearning, month = jul, title = {Multivariate Active Learning and Adaptive Sampling With Multi-Kernel Gaussian Processes}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Wallace, Nathan and Harrison, Nicholas and Sukkarieh, Salah}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, year = {2025}, doi = {10.1109/LRA.2025.3570127}, volume = {10}, number = {7}, pages = {6584--6591} } - ICRA-WS
Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop (ICRA) · 2025
BibTeX for Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments
@inproceedings{nguyen2025soilsampling_ws, month = may, day = {19}, title = {Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Muller, Erik and Rubin, Michael and Wang, Xiaofei and Sibona, Fiorella and McBratney, Alex and Sukkarieh, Salah}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop (ICRA)}, year = {2025}, }
2024
- JAI
AV-FDTI: Audio-visual fusion for drone threat identification
Journal of Automation and Intelligence, 3(3), 144–151 · 2024
BibTeX for AV-FDTI: Audio-visual fusion for drone threat identification
@article{yang2024avfdti, month = sep, title = {AV-FDTI: Audio-visual fusion for drone threat identification}, author = {Yang, Yizhuo and Yuan, Shenghai and Yang, Jianfei and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Cao, Muqing and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Wang, Han and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {Journal of Automation and Intelligence}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.1016/j.jai.2024.06.002}, volume = {3}, number = {3}, pages = {144--151} } - ICCA
A Cost-Effective Cooperative Exploration and Inspection Strategy for Heterogeneous Aerial System
IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 673–678 · 2024
BibTeX for A Cost-Effective Cooperative Exploration and Inspection Strategy for Heterogeneous Aerial System
@inproceedings{xu2024heterogeneous, month = jun, day = {18}, title = {A Cost-Effective Cooperative Exploration and Inspection Strategy for Heterogeneous Aerial System}, author = {Xu, Xinhang and Cao, Muqing and Yuan, Shenghai and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA)}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.1109/ICCA62789.2024.10591842}, pages = {673--678} } - CVPR
MCD: Diverse Large-Scale Multi-Campus Dataset for Robot Perception
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 22304–22313 · 2024
BibTeX for MCD: Diverse Large-Scale Multi-Campus Dataset for Robot Perception
@inproceedings{nguyen2024mcd, month = jun, day = {16}, title = {MCD: Diverse Large-Scale Multi-Campus Dataset for Robot Perception}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yuan, Shenghai and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Yin, Pengyu and Cao, Haozhi and Xie, Lihua and Wozniak, Maciej and Jensfelt, Patric and Thiel, Marko and Ziegenbein, Justin and Blunder, Noel}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.02105}, pages = {22304--22313}, } - ICRA
MMAUD: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Dataset for Modern Miniature Drone Threats
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2745–2751 · 2024
BibTeX for MMAUD: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Dataset for Modern Miniature Drone Threats
@inproceedings{yuan2024mmaud, month = may, day = {13}, title = {MMAUD: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Dataset for Modern Miniature Drone Threats}, author = {Yuan, Shenghai and Yang, Yizhuo and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yang, Jianfei and Liu, Fen and Li, Jianping and Wang, Han and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610957}, pages = {2745--2751}, }
2023
- T-RO
Relative Transformation Estimation Based on Fusion of Odometry and UWB Ranging Data
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(4), 2861–2877 · 2023
BibTeX for Relative Transformation Estimation Based on Fusion of Odometry and UWB Ranging Data
@article{nguyen2023relpose, month = aug, title = {Relative Transformation Estimation Based on Fusion of Odometry and UWB Ranging Data}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.1109/TRO.2023.3264946}, volume = {39}, number = {4}, pages = {2861--2877}, } - JFR
SPINS: A structure priors aided inertial navigation system
Journal of Field Robotics, 40(4), 879–900 · 2023
BibTeX for SPINS: A structure priors aided inertial navigation system
@article{lyu2023spins, month = jun, title = {SPINS: A structure priors aided inertial navigation system}, author = {Lyu, Yang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Liu, Liu and Cao, Muqing and Yuan, Shenghai and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {Journal of Field Robotics}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.1002/rob.22161}, volume = {40}, number = {4}, pages = {879--900} } - Preprint
VR-SLAM: A Visual-Range Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System using Monocular Camera and Ultra-wideband Sensors
arXiv preprint · 2023
BibTeX for VR-SLAM: A Visual-Range Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System using Monocular Camera and Ultra-wideband Sensors
@misc{nguyen2023vrslam, month = mar, day = {20}, title = {VR-SLAM: A Visual-Range Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System using Monocular Camera and Ultra-wideband Sensors}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua}, year = {2023}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, primaryclass = {cs.RO}, }
2022
- RA-L
Estimating Odometry Scale and UWB Anchor Location Based on Semidefinite Programming Optimization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3), 7359–7366 · 2022
BibTeX for Estimating Odometry Scale and UWB Anchor Location Based on Semidefinite Programming Optimization
@article{nguyen2022sdp, month = jul, title = {Estimating Odometry Scale and UWB Anchor Location Based on Semidefinite Programming Optimization}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3182110}, volume = {7}, number = {3}, pages = {7359--7366} } - RA-L
Flexible and Resource-Efficient Multi-Robot Collaborative Visual-Inertial-Range Localization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 928–935 · 2022
BibTeX for Flexible and Resource-Efficient Multi-Robot Collaborative Visual-Inertial-Range Localization
@article{nguyen2021multirobot, month = apr, title = {Flexible and Resource-Efficient Multi-Robot Collaborative Visual-Inertial-Range Localization}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.1109/LRA.2021.3136286}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {928--935} } - T-RO
VIRAL-Fusion: A Visual-Inertial-Ranging-Lidar Sensor Fusion Approach
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 38(2), 958–977 · 2022
BibTeX for VIRAL-Fusion: A Visual-Inertial-Ranging-Lidar Sensor Fusion Approach
@article{nguyen2022viralfusion, month = apr, title = {VIRAL-Fusion: A Visual-Inertial-Ranging-Lidar Sensor Fusion Approach}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Cao, Muqing and Yuan, Shenghai and Lyu, Yang and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.1109/TRO.2021.3094157}, volume = {38}, number = {2}, pages = {958--977} } - IJRR
NTU VIRAL: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 41(3), 270–280 · 2022
BibTeX for NTU VIRAL: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint
@article{nguyen2022ntuviral, month = mar, title = {NTU VIRAL: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yuan, Shenghai and Cao, Muqing and Lyu, Yang and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {The International Journal of Robotics Research}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.1177/02783649211052312}, volume = {41}, number = {3}, pages = {270--280}, }
2021
- RA-L
MILIOM: Tightly Coupled Multi-Input Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(3), 5573–5580 · 2021
BibTeX for MILIOM: Tightly Coupled Multi-Input Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping
@article{nguyen2021miliom, month = jul, title = {MILIOM: Tightly Coupled Multi-Input Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yuan, Shenghai and Cao, Muqing and Lyu, Yang and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, year = {2021}, doi = {10.1109/LRA.2021.3080633}, volume = {6}, number = {3}, pages = {5573--5580} } - ICRA
LIRO: Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertia-Ranging Odometry
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 14484–14490 · 2021
BibTeX for LIRO: Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertia-Ranging Odometry
@inproceedings{nguyen2021liro, month = may, day = {30}, title = {LIRO: Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertia-Ranging Odometry}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Cao, Muqing and Yuan, Shenghai and Lyu, Yang and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year = {2021}, doi = {10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560954}, pages = {14484--14490} } - Preprint
VIRAL SLAM: Tightly Coupled Camera-IMU-UWB-Lidar SLAM
arXiv preprint · 2021
BibTeX for VIRAL SLAM: Tightly Coupled Camera-IMU-UWB-Lidar SLAM
@misc{nguyen2021viralslam, month = may, day = {07}, title = {VIRAL SLAM: Tightly Coupled Camera-IMU-UWB-Lidar SLAM}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yuan, Shenghai and Cao, Muqing and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, year = {2021}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, primaryclass = {cs.RO}, } - RA-L
Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2), 1678–1685 · 2021
BibTeX for Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization
@article{nguyen2021rangefocused, month = apr, title = {Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, year = {2021}, doi = {10.1109/LRA.2021.3057838}, volume = {6}, number = {2}, pages = {1678--1685} }
2020
- AuRo
Tightly-coupled ultra-wideband-aided monocular visual SLAM with degenerate anchor configurations
Autonomous Robots, 44(8), 1519–1534 · 2020
BibTeX for Tightly-coupled ultra-wideband-aided monocular visual SLAM with degenerate anchor configurations
@article{nguyen2020vslam, month = nov, title = {Tightly-coupled ultra-wideband-aided monocular visual SLAM with degenerate anchor configurations}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {Autonomous Robots}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1007/s10514-020-09944-7}, volume = {44}, number = {8}, pages = {1519--1534} } - TCST
Single Landmark Distance-Based Navigation
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28(5), 2021–2028 · 2020
BibTeX for Single Landmark Distance-Based Navigation
@article{nguyen2020landmark, month = sep, title = {Single Landmark Distance-Based Navigation}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Qiu, Zhirong and Cao, Muqing and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1109/TCST.2019.2916089}, volume = {28}, number = {5}, pages = {2021--2028} } - ICRA
Tightly-Coupled Single-Anchor Ultra-wideband-Aided Monocular Visual Odometry System
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 665–671 · 2020
BibTeX for Tightly-Coupled Single-Anchor Ultra-wideband-Aided Monocular Visual Odometry System
@inproceedings{nguyen2020uwbvo, month = may, title = {Tightly-Coupled Single-Anchor Ultra-wideband-Aided Monocular Visual Odometry System}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196794}, pages = {665--671} } - T-RO
Persistently Excited Adaptive Relative Localization and Time-Varying Formation of Robot Swarms
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 36(2), 553–560 · 2020
BibTeX for Persistently Excited Adaptive Relative Localization and Time-Varying Formation of Robot Swarms
@article{nguyen2020swarm, month = apr, title = {Persistently Excited Adaptive Relative Localization and Time-Varying Formation of Robot Swarms}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Qiu, Zhirong and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Cao, Muqing and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1109/TRO.2019.2954677}, volume = {36}, number = {2}, pages = {553--560} } - US
Loosely-Coupled Ultra-wideband-Aided Scale Correction for Monocular Visual Odometry
Unmanned Systems, 08(02), 179–190 · 2020
BibTeX for Loosely-Coupled Ultra-wideband-Aided Scale Correction for Monocular Visual Odometry
@article{nguyen2020loosely, month = apr, title = {Loosely-Coupled Ultra-wideband-Aided Scale Correction for Monocular Visual Odometry}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Cao, Muqing and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {Unmanned Systems}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1142/S2301385020500119}, volume = {08}, number = {02}, pages = {179--190} }
2019
- RA-L
Distance-Based Cooperative Relative Localization for Leader-Following Control of MAVs
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4), 3641–3648 · 2019
BibTeX for Distance-Based Cooperative Relative Localization for Leader-Following Control of MAVs
@article{nguyen2019cooperative, month = oct, title = {Distance-Based Cooperative Relative Localization for Leader-Following Control of MAVs}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Qiu, Zhirong and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Cao, Muqing and Xie, Lihua}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, year = {2019}, doi = {10.1109/LRA.2019.2926671}, volume = {4}, number = {4}, pages = {3641--3648} } - ICRA
Integrated UWB-Vision Approach for Autonomous Docking of UAVs in GPS-denied Environments
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 9603–9609 · 2019
BibTeX for Integrated UWB-Vision Approach for Autonomous Docking of UAVs in GPS-denied Environments
@inproceedings{nguyen2019uwbvision, month = may, title = {Integrated UWB-Vision Approach for Autonomous Docking of UAVs in GPS-denied Environments}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Cao, Muqing and Qiu, Zhirong and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year = {2019}, doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793851}, pages = {9603--9609} }
2018
- ICARCV
Post-Mission Autonomous Return and Precision Landing of UAV
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 1747–1752 · 2018
BibTeX for Post-Mission Autonomous Return and Precision Landing of UAV
@inproceedings{nguyen2018landing, month = nov, title = {Post-Mission Autonomous Return and Precision Landing of UAV}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Cao, Muqing and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581117}, pages = {1747--1752} } - IROS
An Integrated Localization-Navigation Scheme for Distance-Based Docking of UAVs
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 5245–5250 · 2018
BibTeX for An Integrated Localization-Navigation Scheme for Distance-Based Docking of UAVs
@inproceedings{nguyen2018docking, month = oct, title = {An Integrated Localization-Navigation Scheme for Distance-Based Docking of UAVs}, author = {Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Qiu, Zhirong and Cao, Muqing and Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Xie, Lihua}, booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1109/IROS.2018.8594251}, pages = {5245--5250} }
2017
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Control system design and model development for a ducted-fan singlecopter
Science and Technology Development Journal, 20(K3), 38–44 · 2017
BibTeX for Control system design and model development for a ducted-fan singlecopter
@article{nguyen2017singlecopter, month = jun, day = {30}, title = {Control system design and model development for a ducted-fan singlecopter}, author = {Nguyen, Thien Hoang and Nguyen, Nghia Trong and Huynh, Kiem Van}, journal = {Science and Technology Development Journal}, year = {2017}, volume = {20}, number = {K3}, pages = {38--44}, doi = {10.32508/stdj.v20iK3.1089}, }