Dong Hun Shin

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Dong Hun Shin is a robotics researcher whose career has spanned several decades of foundational and applied work in autonomous vehicle navigation, mobile robot kinematics, and specialized robotic systems. His most influential contributions lie in path planning and generation for mobile robots, particularly his pioneering work on composite clothoid segments for robot vehicle path generation, first published in 1990 and accumulating nearly 100 citations across two landmark papers. This research established mathematically elegant, curvature-continuous path specifications that made autonomous vehicles more practically controllable in real environments. Shin further advanced the field through comparative studies of B-splines and clothoids for fine-grained path planning, and developed rigorous velocity kinematic models for wheeled mobile robots using matrix coordinate transformations. His position-based path tracking work added practical guidance for real-world robot deployment. Beyond navigation theory, Shin demonstrated notable versatility by designing innovative specialized robots, including a self-propulsive concrete floor trowelling robot that harnesses unbalanced friction forces for locomotion, a twin-brush floor polishing robot, an anthropomorphic robot hand mimicking human dimensions, and a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle with a rotatable-arm thruster. His body of work reflects a sustained commitment to bridging theoretical robotics with practical, real-world engineering solutions.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Path Generation for Robot Vehicles Using Composite Clothoid Segments

   73 citations · 1990
2. 2
   Path Generation for a Robot Vehicle Using Composite Clothoid Segments

   26 citations · 1992
3. 3
   Position Based Path Tracking For Wheeled Mobile Robots

   24 citations · 2005
4. 4
   Velocity kinematic modeling for wheeled mobile robots

   16 citations · 2002
5. 5
   Mobile robot path planning for fine‐grained and smooth path spcification

   11 citations · 1995
6. 6
   Twin Brush Floor Polishing Robot

   7 citations · 2000
7. 7
   Omni-directional self-propulsive trowelling robot

   6 citations · 2002
8. 8
   Development of an anthropomorphic robot hand with size and motion range identical to a human hand

   4 citations · 2013
9. 9
   Open-loop Velocity Control of Concrete Floor Finishing Robots

   4 citations · 2003
10. 10
    Design and Implementation of A Hovering AUV with A Rotatable-Arm Thruster

    2 citations · 2014

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