Steven Nguyen

Steven Nguyen

PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California San Diego

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

Large-Scale Vine Robots for Industrial Inspection: Developing a New Framework to Overcome Limitations With Existing Inspection Methods

Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2024

This paper is about the modeling, design, and testing of a novel, large-scale vine robot for industrial pipe inspection.

Recommended citation: W. E. Heap et al., "Large-Scale Vine Robots for Industrial Inspection: Developing a New Framework to Overcome Limitations With Existing Inspection Methods," in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 64-75, Sept. 2025, doi: 10.1109/MRA.2024.3487326.
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Conference Papers

Pedestrian Emergency Braking in Ten Weeks

Published in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, 2022

This paper is about an implementation of a pedestrian detection and braking scheme I applied to an autonomous vehicle during an NSF REU at UNLV.

Recommended citation: S. Nguyen, Z. Rahman and B. T. Morris, "Pedestrian Emergency Braking in Ten Weeks," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES), Bogota, Colombia, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICVES56941.2022.9987182
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