Past news

News in 2022

- [Jun 24, 2022] The lab will receive an NRF start-up grant for early career faculty ("연구재단 최초혁신 실험실").

- [Jun 3, 2022] A paper that I've co-authored has been accepted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS).

- [Apr 26, 2022] A new industrial grant on manipulation planning for manufacturing will be awarded.

- [Apr 1, 2022] A new industrial grant on manipulation techniques for manufacturing will be awarded.

- [Mar 19, 2022] A paper "Reduction of LiDAR point cloud maps for localization of resource-constrained robotic systems" is accepted for publication in IEEE Systems Journal (JCR Q1 in EE).

- [Mar 2, 2022] An NRF grant ("연구재단 우수신진 과제", similar to NSF CAREER) supporting my multi-manipulator coordination research will be awarded.

- [Mar 1, 2022] I am moving to the Dept. of Electronic Engineering at Sogang University.

- [Feb 1, 2022] A paper "Coordination of two robotic manipulators for object retrieval in clutter” is accepted for presentation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022) (BK21+ Top Conference).

News in 2021

- [Jul 24, 2021] A paper "Fully automatic data collection for neuro-symbolic task planning for mobile robot navigation" is accepted for presentation at IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC).

- [Jul 15, 2021] A Samsung STF (삼성미래기술육성센터) grant proposal that I participated as a co-PI will be awarded. (media)

- [Jun 1, 2021] A paper "Effects of social behaviors of robots in privacy-sensitive situations" is accepted for publication in Int. Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR).

- [Mar 1, 2021] I start a new position at Inha University as an Assistant Professor.

- [Mar 1, 2021] Two papers "An integrated approach for determining objects to be relocated and their goal positions inside clutter for object retrieval” and “Tree Search-based Task and Motion Planning with Prehensile and Non-prehensile Manipulation for Obstacle Rearrangement in Clutter” are accepted for presentation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).

- [Jan 21, 2021] A paper "Fast and resilient manipulation planning for object retrieval in cluttered and confined environments" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).

News in 2020

- [Nov 22, 2020] My paper "Fast and resilient manipulation planning for object retrieval in cluttered and confined environments" is accepted for publication in IEEE T-RO.

- [Jun 16, 2020] My paper "A software architecture for service robots manipulating objects in human environments" is accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

- [May 18, 2020] My paper "Models of Trust in Human Control of Swarms With Varied Levels of Autonomy" is published in IEEE T-HMS.

- [Apr 8, 2020] We receive a new IITP grant "Robot task planning for single and multiple robots connected to a cloud system."

- [Feb 1, 2020] My paper "Robots in the Huddle: Upfront Computation to Reduce Global Communication at Run Time in Multirobot Task Allocation" is published in IEEE T-RO.

- [Jan 22, 2020] My two papers "Fast and resilient manipulation planning for target retrieval in clutter” and “Where to relocate?: Object rearrangement inside cluttered and confined environments for robotic manipulation” are accepted for presentation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020). (Acceptance rate 42%)

News in 2019

- [Oct 2, 2019] Media coverage of my recent result (link, link)

- [Jul 22, 2019] My paper "Robots in the huddle: Upfront computation to reduce global communication at run-time in multi-robot task allocation" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

- [Jun 26, 2019] The paper that I co-authored received the Best Paper Award from Intelligent Service Robots.

- [Mar 21, 2019] I'll serve on the Program Committee of the 12th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2019).

- [Jan 26, 2019] A paper that I co-authored has been accepted for presentation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019) (acceptance rate: 44.0%).

- [Jan 23, 2019] Two papers that I co-authored have been accepted for presentation at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019) as Full paper (acceptance rate: 24.2%).

- [Jan 18, 2019] I'll join the Editorial Board of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) as an Associate Editor.

- [Jan 9, 2019] I'll serve on the Program Committee of the 2nd International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS 2019).

- [Jan 8, 2019] My paper "Models of Trust in Human Control of Swarms with Varied Levels of Autonomy" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

- [Jan 1, 2019] I'll serve on the Program Committee of the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2019).

News in 2018

- [Aug 8, 2018] A paper "Indoor Pursuit-Evasion with Hybrid Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Multi-Robot Systems" that I participated as a coauthor is accepted for presentation at DARS 2018.

- [Jul 2, 2018] I started my new position as a Senior Research Scientist at KIST (the first government-funded research institute in Korea).

- [Jun 19, 2018] A DARPA grant proposal that I participated in will be awarded.

- [Jun 15, 2018] My paper "Trust of Humans in Supervisory Control of Swarm Robots with Varied Levels of Autonomy" has been accepted for presentation at IEEE SMC 2018.

- [Mar 29, 2018] A DARPA grant proposal that I participated in is awarded.

- [Jan 11, 2018] An AFOSR grant proposal that I participated in is going to be awarded.