Autonomy and Perceptual Robotics Lab

2026.03.06
- APRL's 2nd Research Day was held! 🎉
  - Seven graduate students, one postdoctoral researcher, and three undergraduate interns came together to share their ongoing research. With the lab growing fast, Research Day is proving to be a great venue for everyone to stay connected and learn from each other's work. 🚀🤖📚

2026.02.06
- APRL members attended KRoC 2026.
  - Giseop received the Early-career Researcher Award and presented "Memory-Augmented Spatial Intelligence for Autonomous Robot Navigation" at the award session — congratulations! 🎉
  - He also gave two additional talks: "IMU Basics and Inertial Aided Navigation" at the Spatial AI Tutorial, and "CoT/Scene-graph/and Recent Paradigms for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Short Survey and Real-World Lessons" at Special Session 3: AI-based Autonomous Systems.

2025.10.31
- Nayak provided the lab members with a tutorial and hands-on experience on magnetic sensors, and they also discussed potential applications of magnetic sensors on mobile robots.

2025.10.24
- Jiseon received the Best Poster Award at the HEAI Workshop of IROS 2025 — congratulations!

2025.10.02
- We attended CoRL 2025 and Humanoids 2025, which were held at COEX in Seoul, South Korea.

2025.08.14
- APRL’s very first Research Day was held today! 🎉
  - Our 2025 fall incoming students gathered to introduce their research to one another. Bokeon Suh and Jiseon Kim presented the projects they worked on during their five-month internships at APRL, while Yumin Lee and Hyoseok Ju shared the work they conducted at KIST before joining APRL. Welcome to all our new graduate students! 🚀🤖📚

2025.04.09
- Say hello to APRL's newest recruit — a wiggly little pup!
  - He'll be working on social context-aware visual language navigation, semantic object-goal navigation, and wheel-legged SLAM. 🐶📚🤖

2025.04.05
- Our lab participated in the DGIST RME OpenLab, where we introduced our research areas and showcased a LiDAR SLAM demonstration.