Seung Guk Baek
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials
Papers
7
Total Citations
71
H-Index
5
About
Seung Guk Baek is a robotics researcher whose work centers on making physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) safer, more intuitive, and more transparent. His core contributions lie in developing control strategies that allow humans to move naturally while interacting with robots, as if the robot were not there. His most influential paper, "Enhanced Transparency for Physical Human-Robot Interaction Using Human Hand Impedance Compensation" (2018, 33 citations), tackles the fundamental challenge of improving transparency by compensating for the human hand's impedance, enabling smoother, more responsive collaboration. Baek further advanced this line of research with a real-time adaptive impedance compensator using simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (2021, 8 citations), demonstrating a data-driven approach to fine-tune robot behavior on the fly. Beyond transparency, he has also contributed to robot safety, designing a novel cam-follower safety joint mechanism based on a variable-length four-bar linkage (2021, 7 citations) to reduce impact damage during unintended contact. His work spans practical applications, including slip sensing for robotic grippers and precision control for wafer inspection systems. With a growing body of work that bridges control theory, sensor design, and mechanical safety, Baek is shaping the future of robots that can work safely and seamlessly alongside people.
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- 5Development of a capacitive slip sensor using internal air gap7 citations · 2018
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- 7ILC-driven control enhancement for integrated MIMO soft robotic system4 citations · 2024