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We are looking for highly motivated graduate or undergraduate students who are interested in the research themes: Autonomous Navigation and AI Robotic Vision & Learning. If you would like to join us, please contact us yulee@dongguk.edu. Regardless of your major, our goal is to enjoy research with passionate colleagues in an academic atmosphere. For reference, graduate students in our laboratory receive support for full tuition, monthly stipends, conference participation expenses, and others.

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RECENT NEWS

07/2025 Our lab workshop took us to Gangneung, where we learned to surf.

06/2025 Master’s student Ms. Ye-Rim Kim successfully completed her graduation presentation. Congratulations!

03/2025 Congratulations to Mr. Hyeongnam Cho, Mr. Seungbeom Seo, and Mr. Jaehyun Kim on undergraduate graduation, and welcome to the start of master's program.

03/2025 Prof. Yu-Cheol Lee has been appointed as Executive Director at the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences.

03/2025 A new project has been awarded from Hanwha Ocean regarding eco-friendly ship route planning technology.

03/2025 A new project has been awarded from ETRI regarding LiDAR-based map generation and localization technology.

09/2024: Prof. Yu-Cheol Lee has been appointed as editor of ETRI Journal.

09/2024: We are delighted to congratulate Mr. Minseok Kim on his undergraduate graduation and warmly welcome him to the lab as a new master’s student.

08/2024: We have scheduled a rafting trip on the Hantan River as part of our summer workshop.

07/2024: We have successfully wrapped up the second educational program about autonomous navigation, hosted by the Dongguk University Engineering Certification Center.

06/2024: We have been awarded a new project from JNE Works Co. focused on LiDAR recognition and SLAM for unmanned forklifts.

06/2024: We have obtained new project funding from ETRI for the autonomous anchoring and departure of unmanned surface vehicles.

04/2024: RAIN Lab's introduction was featured in the Institute of Control and Robotics Systems.

04/2024: Congratulations to Mr. Hyung-Nam Cho for being chosen as a scholarship recipient by the Mirae Asset Hope Foundation. 

03/2024: We have been awarded a new research fund from Hanwha Ocean.

01/2024: We extend a warm welcome to Mr. Jiwoo Jung, who has joined our laboratory as a new student in the master's program.

 PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS

RESEARCH TOPICS 

• Autonomous Navigation: Localization; Mapping; SLAM; Path planning; Obstacle avoidance; Sensor fusion, Multiple robot schedule

• AI Robotic Vision & Learning: End-to-end navigation; Reinforcement learning; Object detection; 3D Map construction

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Papers [by year] [by type]

List of papers

• Yu-Cheol Lee†, "LSMCL: Long-term Static Mapping and Cloning Localization for Autonomous Robot Navigation Using 3D LiDAR in Dynamic Environments," Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 241, 122688, pp.1-12, 2024. DOI

• Jinghuan Shang, Xiang Li, Kumara Kahatapitiya, Yu-Cheol Lee†, Michael Ryoo†, "StARformer: Transformer with State-Action-Reward Representations for Robot Learning," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 12862-12877, 2023. DOI

• Yu-Cheol Lee†, “SRS: Spatial-Tagged Radio-Mapping System Combining LiDAR and Mobile-Phone Data for Indoor Location-Based Services,” Advanced Engineering Informatics, vol.52, 101560, pp.1-12, 2022. DOI

• Yu-Cheol Lee and Hyun Myung†, “Hierarchical Sampling Optimization of Particle Filter for Global Robot Localization in Pervasive Network Environment,” ETRI Journal, Vol.41, No.6, pp.782-796, 2019. DOI [Inforgraphics]

• Yu-Cheol Lee and Hyun Myung†, "Indoor Localization Method based on Sequential Motion Tracking Using Topological Path Map," IEEE Access, vol.7, no.1, pp.46187-46197, 2019. DOI

• Yu-Cheol Lee, Wonpil Yu, Jong-Hwan Lim†, Wan-Kyun Chung and Dong-Woo Cho†, “Sonar Grid Map Based Localization for Autonomous Mobile Robots,” in Proc. of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), pp.558-563, Beijing, China, 2008. [Best Paper Award] DOI

Registered Patents [by nation]

List of patents

• Yu-Cheol Lee, "Method And Apparatus for Recognizing Indoor Location Using Received Signal Strength Intensity Map," USA Patent: 9374674.

• Yu-Cheol Lee, SangIk Na, Wopil Yu, KyuSeo Han, "Method And System for Creating Indoor Environment Map," Korea Patent: 0883520, USA Patent: 9310807, Japan Patent: 5400044.

• Yu-Cheol Lee, Wonpil Yu, Sangik Na, Hyo-Sung Ahn, "Surroundings Mapping Apparatus Capable of Applying Quickly Changed Surroundings Information in Mobile Robot And Method Thereof," Korea Patent: 0823739, EPO Patent: 2094452, Germany Patent: 602007028472.4, Japan Patent: 5048077.