1. Name of PhD candidate: Pham Van Tang                               2. Gender: Male

3. Date of birth: 10/12/1969                                                        4. Place of birth: Hung Yen

5. Confirmation PhD candidature: Decision number 4761/QD-KHTN-CTSV on 29/12/2011 by the Rector of VNU University of Science.

6. Changes in PhD candidature:

 - Decision number 1034/QĐ-SĐH dated 09/4/2013 on supervisor supplementation by the Rector of VNU University of Science.

- Decision number 255/QĐ-ĐHKHTN, dated 02/02/2015 on the first 12 month extension to PhD candidature by the Rector of VNU University of Science.

- Decision number 743/QĐ-ĐHKHTN, dated 31/3/2016 the second 12 month extension to PhD candidature by the Rector of VNU University of Science.

7. Thesis title: Designing and developing an INS/GPS integrated navigation system for moving objects.

8. Major: Radio Physics and Electronics                                     9. Code: 62440105

10. Supervisors:

- Principal supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Chu Duc Trinh

- Associate supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Tran Duc Tan

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- Analyzing and characterizing the errors of the MEMS sensors used in INS navigation system. The characterization of sensor errors plays a pivotal role in building INS/GPS integrated navigation system for moving objects.

- Successfully designing and developing an INS/GPS integrated navigation system using the flexible Kalman filter structures suitable for the conditions when the GPS signal is not stable or interrupted.

12. Practical applicability:

- The developed system meets the requirements of a navigation system for vehicles moving on the ground.

13. Further research directions:

- Developing intelligent filtering algorithms to further improve the accuracy of the integrated system.

- Adding sensors and algorithms to stabilize integrated navigation system in case of GPS signal is interrupted during a fairly long time.

14. Thesis-related publications:

[1]. Thang N.V., Tang P.V., Ninh V.V., Trinh, C.D., Tan T.D. (2012), “Application of Extended and Linear Kalman Filters for an Integrated Navigation System”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE’12),  pp. 574-577.

[2]. Tang Pham Van, Thang Nguyen Van, Duc Anh Nguyen, Trinh Chu Duc, Tran Duc-Tan (2015), “15-state Extended Kalman Filter Design for INS/GPS Navigation System”, Journal of Automation and Control Engineering, 3(2), pp. 109-114.

[3]. Van-Tang Pham, Dinh-Chinh Nguyen, Quang-Huy Tran, Duc-Trinh Chu and Duc-Tan Tran (2015), “Thermal Stability of Magnetic Compass Sensor for High Accuracy Positioning Applications”, Sensors & Transducers Journal, 195 (12), pp. 1-8.

[4]. Pham Van Tang, Tran Duc Tan, Chu Duc Trinh (2016), “Characterizing Stochastic Errors of MEMS – Based Inertial Sensors”, VNU Journal of Science: Mathematics – Physics, 32(2), pp. 34-42.

[5]. Pham Van Tang, Tran Duc Nghia, Nguyen Tien Anh (2016), “INS/GPS Integration System based on Beagle board”, The 2016 National Conference on Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (REV-2016), pp. 4.32-4.35.