Huu Duoc Nguyen

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Huu Duoc Nguyen is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of biohybrid robotics, specializing in cyborg insect systems and their applications in autonomous navigation and urban search and rescue (USAR). His work centers on merging living insect platforms with miniature electronic controllers to create small, energy-efficient robots that outperform conventional artificial systems in navigating complex environments. Nguyen's most celebrated contributions include developing sideways walking control for cyborg beetles, engineering intelligent obstacle negotiation with onboard human detection, and designing efficient autonomous navigation algorithms — work that has collectively garnered over 200 citations. His 2023 paper on intelligent cyborg insects (59 citations) demonstrated that insects' innate locomotion capabilities could be harnessed to overcome critical size and power limitations in rescue robotics. He has also addressed the challenge of habituation — where insects become desensitized to repeated stimuli — by developing stimulus regulators that sustain controllability over extended missions. More recently, Nguyen has expanded his research to swarm navigation of cyborg insects in soft terrain, amphibious crab biorobots, and vertical wall-climbing cyborg beetles, showcasing a remarkably broad vision for biohybrid systems. His body of work represents a transformative approach to robotics, proving that nature's own engineering can be the most elegant solution to miniaturized autonomous systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Intelligent Insect–Computer Hybrid Robot: Installing Innate Obstacle Negotiation and Onboard Human Detection onto Cyborg Insect

   59 citations · 2023
2. 2
   Sideways Walking Control of a Cyborg Beetle

   57 citations · 2020
3. 3
   Efficient autonomous navigation for terrestrial insect-machine hybrid systems

   48 citations · 2022
4. 4
   Swarm navigation of cyborg-insects in unknown obstructed soft terrain

   29 citations · 2025
5. 5
   A Navigation Algorithm to Enable Sustainable Control of Insect-Computer Hybrid Robot with Stimulus Signal Regulator and Habituation-Breaking Function

   19 citations · 2023
6. 6
   Ultra-Lightweight Cyborg Insect: Sideways walking of remote-controlled living beetle with a miniature backpack

   15 citations · 2019
7. 7
   Insect-Computer Hybrid System for Autonomous Search and Rescue Mission

   13 citations · 2021
8. 8
   A newly developed chemical locomotory booster for cyborg insect to sustain its activity and to enhance covering performance

   9 citations · 2023
9. 9
   The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment

   7 citations · 2024
10. 10
    Zoborg: On‐Demand Climbing Control for Cyborg Beetles

    5 citations · 2025

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