Publications

“Aerial Vehicle Rapid 3d Multi Map Stitching Using Safe Landing Area”

Authors: Akin Tatoglu, Sky Cheng, Brianna Cervello, Bernie Balko, Antonio Corrado, James Bonner and Kiwon Sohn

Track: Dynamics, Vibration and Control (Mobile Robots and Unmanned Ground Vehicles), International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), 2022.

"Mechanical Design Upgrade of Kinematically-Reconfigurable Humanoid, Hart”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Jordaine Wisdom, Ethan Sharpe, James Robinson and Akin Tatoglu

Track: Design and Control of Robots, Mechanisms and Structures, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), 2022.

“Mechanical Upgrade and Gait Development of Re-Sizable Quadruped, HARQ”

Authors: Salman Hussain, Akin Tatoglu and Kiwon Sohn

Volume 7A: Dynamics, Vibration and Control in International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, 2021.

“Application of Block-Based Programming to the Selected Open-Source Quadrupedal Platform for Improving Robotics Training”

Authors: Stephen Vollaro, Mason Wein, Akin Tatoglu and Kiwon Sohn

Volume 7B: Dynamics, Vibration and Control in International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, 2021.

“Re-sizable quadrupedal robot platform, HARQ”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Salman Hussain, Matthew Bradnan and Owen May

Volume 7A: Dynamics, Vibration and Control in International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, 2020.

“Mobile carrying platform, i-EXPLORE”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Aurian Emami and Jaesung Yang

Volume 7A: Dynamics, Vibration and Control in International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, 2020.

“Ground vehicle driving by full sized humanoid”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn and Giho Jang

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT), pp. 1-19, Dec 2019 (Online), Feb 2020 (Hardcopy).

“Upper Body Development of full-sized humanoid, HART, for vehicle driving task”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn and Mark Markiewicz

International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (in Topic: Design and Control of Robots, Mechanisms and Structures of Track: Dynamics, Vibration, and Control), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov, 2019.

“Miniature Humanoid Upgrade for Material Handling Tasks in Humanoid Challenge”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Jeongkyu Lee and Kevin Huang

“Increasing Perception Space of a Ground Standing Robot Via Data Transmission from an Aerial Robot”, Authors: Kiwon Sohn and Mohammad Manzur Murshid

IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2019.

“Increasing Humanoid’s Perception Capability via Data Transmission from Aerial Robot”, IEEE

Authors: Kiwon Sohn and Mohammad Manzur Murshid

IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2019.

“Development of Lower Body for Vehicle Driving Robot, HART”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Mark Markiewicz and Stefan Keilich

International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (Track: Design and Control of Robots, Mechanisms and Structures), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Nov, 2018.

“Service Robot Design for Uses in Human Centered Environments”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Ethan Morris, Obioma Ulebor, Thomas Currier and Shaun Merrill

International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (Track: Design and Control of Robots, Mechanisms and Structures), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Nov, 2018.

“Control Analysis of a 3D Self-Balancing Inverted Pendulum and Cart System for Stability in the Event of a Sensor Failure”

Authors: Sarah Lamb, Patricia Mellodge, Kiwon Sohn and Akin Tatoglu,

International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (Track: Nonlinear Dynamics, Control, and Stochastic Mechanics), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Nov, 2018.

“Optimization of Vehicle Mounting Motions and Its Application to Full-Sized Humanoid, DRC-Hubo”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT), pp. 1-28, Apr 2018 (Online), July 2019 (Hardcopy).

“IoT Instrument for Heart Monitoring: Interfacing Humans and Robots (Extended Version)”

Authors: Antonio Morales, Hassan S. Salehi and Kiwon Sohn

International Journal of Modern Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2018.

“IoT Instrument for Heart Monitoring: Interfacing Humans and Robots”

Authors: Antonio Morales, Hassan S. Salehi and Kiwon Sohn

ASEE Northeast Section Conference, Apr 2018.

“The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue - Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV in 2015 Darpa Robotics Challenge Finals”

Authors: Paul Oh, Kiwon Sohn, Giho Jang, Youngbum Jun, Donghyun Ahn, Juseong Shin, Baek-Kyu Cho

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series (STAR), vol. 121, pp. 309-346, Apr 2018.

“Real-time Control Analysis of a 3D Self-balancing Inverted Pendulum and Cart System for Stability in the Event of a Sensor Failure“

Authors: Sarah Lamb, Patricia Mellodge, Kiwon Sohn and Akin Tatoglu

Poster Session in SIAM Conference on Control & Its Applications (CT), July, 2017.

“Technical Overview of Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV's Approach to Darpa Robotics Challenge Finals 2015”

Authors: Paul Oh, Kiwon Sohn, Giho Jang, Youngbum Jun, Baek-Kyu Cho

Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), vol. 34, issue 5, pp. 874-896, Feb 2017.

“Strategies for Driving and Egress for the Vehicle of a Humanoid Robot in the DRC Finals 2015”

Authors: DongHyun Ahn, JuSeong Shin, Youngbum Jun, Kiwon Sohn, Giho Jang, Paul Oh, and Baek-Kyu Cho

Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (JICROS), vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 912-918, Nov 2016.

“Optimization of Humanoid's Motions under Multiple Constraints in Vehicle Ingress Task”

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Paul Oh

Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR), 1-18, 2015.

“Towards Functional Labeling of Utility Vehicle Point Clouds for Humanoid Driving”,

Authors: Christopher Rasmussen, Karthikeyan Yuvraj, Richard Vallett, Kiwon Sohn, Paul Oh,

Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR), vol. 7, issue 3, pp 133-143, 2014.

“Perception and Control Strategies for Driving Utility Vehicles with a Humanoid Robot”,

Authors: Christopher Rasmussen, Kiwon Sohn and Paul Oh,

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.

“Early Phases of Humanoid Vehicle Ingress Using Depth Cameras”,

Authors: Christopher Rasmussen, Kiwon Sohn, Karthikeyan Yuvraj and Paul Oh,

IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA) 2014.

“2-Tier Control of a Humanoid Robot and Use of Sign Language Learned by Monte Carlo Method”,

Authors: Kiwon Sohn and Paul Oh,

IEEE International Workshop on Robots and Human Interactive Communications (RO-MAN) 2013 (Best Paper Award Nominated).

“Towards Functional Labeling of Utility Vehicle Point Clouds for Humanoid Driving”,

Authors: Christopher Rasmussen, Karthikeyan Yuvraj, Richard Vallett, Kiwon Sohn, Paul Oh,

IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA) 2013.

“Humanoid Robots Walking on Grass, Sands and Rocks”,

Authors: Y.F. Zheng, H. Wang, S. Li, Y. Liu, D. Orin, Kiwon Sohn, Y. Jun, Paul Oh,

IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA) 2013.

“Applying Motion Capture System for Collaborative Tasks with a Human”,

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Youngmoo Kim, Paul Oh,

IEEE Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2012.

“Applying Human Motion Capture to Design Energy-efficient Trajectories for Miniature Humanoids”,

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Paul Oh,

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.

“Giving Robots a Flexible Persona: The five factor model of Artificial Personality in Action”,

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Saravanakrishnan Krishnamoorthy, Paul Oh and M. Anthony Lewis,

12th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2012.

“MULTI-AGENT BASED OPTIC FLOW”,

Authors: Kiwon Sohn, Paul Oh, M Anthony Lewis,

12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous System (IAS-12), 2012.

“A physical model for dynamical arthropod running on level ground,”

Authors: Haldun Komsuoglu, Kiwon Sohn, and D. E. Koditschek,

11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2008.