Publications

Work in Progress

• Kim, J., and Kim, K., "Spring Tension Estimation in Multicopter Systems for Cooperative Payload Transport," in preparation.

Journal Papers (International)

[Ji8] Koo, D., Seo, J., Woo, S.M., Kim, B., Kim, K., Jun, E., Chang, S.H., "Development of Robust Nuclear Safeguards Methods for Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants," Nuclear Engineering and Technology, vol.57, no.9, pp.103653-103653, 2025. doi:10.1016/j.net.2025.103653

[Ji7] Ryu, H., Lim, J., Lee, H., Moon, G., and Kim, K., "An Estimation Method for Vision-based Autonomous Landing System for Fixed Wing Aircraft," International Journal of Robotics Research, vol.44, no.6, pp.952-971, 2024. doi:10.1177/02783649241287229

[Ji6] Kim, K., Spieler, P., Lupu, E.-S., Ramezani, A., and Chung, S.-J., “A Bipedal Walking Robot that can Fly, Slackline, and Skateboard,” Science Robotics, vol.6, no.59, pp.eabf8136-eabf8136, 2021. doi:10.1126/scirobotics.abf8136 (cover article) 

[Ji5] Kim, K., Agogino, A.K., and Agogino, A.M., “Rolling Locomotion of Cable-Driven Soft Spherical Tensegrity Robots,” Soft Robotics, vol.7, no.3, pp.346-361, 2020. doi:10.1089/soro.2019.0056 

[Ji4] Capuano, V., Kim, K., Harvard, A., and Chung, S.-J., “Monocular-Based Pose Determination of Uncooperative Space Objects,” Acta Astronautica, vol.166, pp.493- 506, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2019.09.027 

[Ji3] Paranjape, A., Chung, S.-J., Kim, K., and Shim, H., “Robotic Herding of a Flock of Birds Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol.34, no.4, pp.901-915, 2018. doi:10.1109/TRO.2018.2853610 

[Ji2] Chen, L.-H., Kim, K., Tang, E., Li, K., House, R., Zhu, E.L., Fountain, L., Jung, E., Agogino, A.K., SunSpiral, V., and Agogino, A.M., “Soft Spherical Tensegrity Robot Design using Rod-Centered Actuation and Control,” ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol.9, no.2, 2017. doi:10.1115/1.4036014 

[Ji1] Basu, C., Caubel, J., Kim, K., Cheng, E., Dhinakaran, A., Agogino, A.M., and Martin, R., “Sensor-Based Predictive Modeling for Smart Lighting in Grid-Integrated Buildings,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.14, no.12, pp.4216-4229, 2014. doi:10.1109/ JSEN.2014.2352331 

Conference Papers (International)

[Ci13] Kim, J., and Kim, K., "Optimal Thrust Estimation Considering Actual Thrust Fitting of Quadrotors," 12th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2024) , Ulsan, South Korea, Dec. 4-7, 2024.

[Ci12] Cho, J., and Kim, K., "MetricVQA: Integrating Visual Question Answering and Object Distance Estimation on Monocular Images," 2024 KIISS-APCIM Joint Conference, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2024.

[Ci11] Ryu, H., Lee, H., and Kim, K., "Performance Comparison of Deep Learning Networks for Runway Recognition in Small Edge Computing Environment," 2023 Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 1-5, 2023. doi:10.1109/DASC58513.2023.10311305 

[Ci10] Kim, K., Rahili, S., Shi, X., Chung, S.-J., and Gharib, M., “Controllability and Design of Unmanned Multirotor Aircraft Robust to Rotor Failure,” 2019 AIAA SciTech Forum, San Diego, CA, Jan. 7-11, 2019. doi:10.2514/6.2019-1787 

[Ci9] Shi, X., Kim, K., Rahili, S., and Chung, S.-J., “Nonlinear Control of Autonomous Flying Cars with Wings and Distributed Electric Propulsion,” 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, FL, Dec. 17-19, 2018. doi: 10.1109/CDC.2018.8619578 

[Ci8] Capuano, V., Kim, K., Hu, J., Harvard, A., and Chung, S.-J., “Monocular-Based Pose Determination of Uncooperative Known and Unknown Space Objects,” 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, Oct. 1-5, 2018. 

[Ci7] Kim, K., Moon, D., Bin, J.-Y., and Agogino, A.M., “Design of a Spherical Tensegrity Robot for Dynamic Locomotion,” 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sep. 24-28, 2017. doi:10.1109/IROS.2017.8202192 

[Ci6] Kim, K., and Agogino, A.M., “Spin-Axis Stabilization of a Rigid Body about an Arbitrary Direction using Two Reaction Wheels,” 2016 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Dec. 12-14, 2016. doi:10.1109/CDC.2016.7799141 

[Ci5] Kim, K., Chen, L.-H., Cera, B., Daly, M., Zhu, E., Despois, J., Agogino, A.K., SunSpiral, V., and Agogino, A.M., “Hopping and Rolling Locomotion with Spherical Tensegrity Robots,” 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, South Korea, Oct. 9-14, 2016. doi:10.1109/IROS.2016.7759643 

[Ci4] Chen, L.-H., Kim, K., Tang, E., Li, K., House, R., Jung, E., Agogino, A.K., SunSpiral, V., and Agogino, A.M., “Soft Spherical Tensegrity Robot Design using Rod-Centered Actuation and Control,” 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference and the Computer and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Charlotte, NC, USA, Aug. 21-24, 2016. doi:10.1115/DETC2016-60550 

[Ci3] Kim, K., Agogino, A.K., Toghyan, A., Moon, D., Taneja, L., and Agogino, A.M., “Robust Learning of Tensegrity Robot Control for Locomotion through Form-Finding,” 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 28-Oct. 2, 2015. doi:10.1109/IROS.2015. 7354204 

[Ci2] Kim, K., Agogino, A.K., and Agogino, A.M., “Emergent Form-Finding for Center of Mass Control of Ball-Shaped Tensegrity Robots,” 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4-5, 2015. 

[Ci1] Kim, K., Agogino, A.K., Moon, D., Taneja, L., Toghyan, A., Dehghani, B., SunSpiral, V., and Agogino, A.M., “Rapid Prototyping Design and Control of Tensegrity Soft Robot for Locomotion,” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Bali, Indonesia, Dec. 5-10, 2014. Best Student Paper Award Finalist. doi:10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090299 

Technical Reports

[T1] 김병준, 김규남, 우승민. "[NSTAR-24PS11-540] 경수로형 SMR 안전조치에 드론 기술을 적용하기 위한 사례 조사 및 기술 분석," 2024 원자력안전연구 N-STAR, 원자력안전위원회 SMR규제연구추진단, 2024.

Patents

[P3] Chung, S.-J., Paranjape, A., Kim, K., “Systems and Methods for Avian Flock Flight Path Modification using UAVs,” U.S. Patent 11,801,937 B2, Oct. 31, 2023. 

[P2] Shi, X., Veismann, M., Dougherty, C.J., Rider, S., Chung, S.-J., Gharib, M., Kim, K., Rahili, S., Nemovi, R., “Autonomous Flying Ambulance,” U.S. Patent 11,072,421 B2, Jul. 27, 2021. 

[P1] Kazerooni, H., Jeong, Y.J., and Kim, K., “User Coupled Human-Machine Interface,” U.S. Patent 9,158,376 B2, Oct. 13, 2015.