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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

03/2026 We has welcomed new master’s students: Mr. Wooseok Lim, Mr. Jihan Sung, and Mr. Taekyung Kim. We wish them growth and success throughout their degree program.

02/2026 We are delighted to share that Mr. Jaemin Song and Mr. Jaehyun Kim, as co–first authors, have had their paper accepted for publication in a journal. 

02/2026 Our lab’s graduate, Mr. Song Jaemin, has joined Hanwha Ocean. Congratulations.

01/2026 We are pleased to share that our lab’s graduate, Mr. Jung Jiwoo, has started his professional journey at the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives.

11/2025 We are pleased to announce that Mr. Seungbeom Seo, as first author, has successfully published his paper in a journal. Congratulations on this accomplishment.

09/2025 Our lab’s graduate, Ms. Kim Yerim, is starting a new chapter at Hanwha Ocean. Congratulations!

08/2025 Our paper was accepted for publication in Expert Systems With Applications (JCR 6.1%, IF 7.5 in 2024).

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.

 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.