Hyun Myung, Ph.D. of School of Electrical Engineering Director, Urban Robotics Lab. Director, Unmanned Swarm Robot CPS Research Center Director, Hanwha-KAIST Autonomy Hub Center KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Abstract :

This talk introduces the latest spatial AI-based autonomous navigation technologies widely used for autonomous vehicles, such as mobile robots, legged robots, self-driving cars, and drones. In addition to the technical background of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping), path planning, and motion control, actual cases developed by KAIST Urban Robotics Lab will be introduced. Specifically, we present various navigation frameworks with mobile robots, drones, and legged robots in diverse environments, including rough terrains. The latest development of the deep reinforcement learning-based blind locomotion technology called DreamWaQ will also be introduced.

Biography:

Speaker Bio:

Prof. Hyun Myung received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 1992, 1994, and 1998, respectively. He was a Senior Researcher with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, from 1998 to 2002, a CTO and the Director with the Digital Contents Research Laboratory, Emersyn Corporation, Daejeon, from 2002 to 2003, and a Principal Researcher with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Yongin, Korea, from 2003 to 2008. Since 2008, he has been a Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST, and he has served as the Chief of the KAIST Robotics Program. From 2019, he is a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering. He led the development of the world-first robots such as JEROS (Jellyfish removal robot), CAROS (wall-climbing drone), Mole-bot, and Dream WaQer (Blind-walking quadruped robot). He received 2015 KAIST Top 10 Research Accomplishment Award, 2018 KAIST Joint Research Award, Prime Minister’s Citation Award at 2018 Nat’l Science Day, 2022 KAIST Research Prize, Champion in 2023 IEEE ICRA AQRC (Autonomous Quadruped Robot Challenge), 1st place in 2023 IEEE ICRA HILTI SLAM Challenge LiDAR Session, and CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2023 Innovation Award. His current research interests include autonomous robot navigation, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), SHM (structural health monitoring), machine learning, AI, and swarm robots.

Address:South Korea