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Pham Thuc Anh Nguyen is a pioneering researcher in robotic manipulation, with a focus on dexterous grasping, soft robotics, and agricultural automation. Her foundational work on "Stable pinching by a pair of robot fingers with soft tips under the effect of gravity" (34 citations) established a rigorous lumped-parameter dynamic model for analyzing how soft, deformable fingertips enable stable object pinching—a critical advance for delicate manipulation tasks. She extended this to multi-degree-of-freedom fingers in "Dexterous manipulation of an object by means of multi‐DOF robotic fingers with soft tips" (17 citations), demonstrating fine control through computer simulations. Nguyen also contributed to intelligent control theory, proposing iterative learning schemes for impedance control (10 and 8 citations) that ensure robots can adaptively press soft-tipped tools against rigid surfaces with prescribed force patterns. More recently, she has applied her expertise to agricultural robotics, developing the dynamics and motion control algorithms for a pineapple harvesting robotic system (6 citations, 2022). Her work bridges fundamental mechanics and practical automation, with over 75 total citations, making her a key figure in soft robotic manipulation and field robotics.