Yonghwan Kim

Toyohashi University of Technology, Nagoya Institute of Technology

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Yonghwan Kim is a researcher in distributed robotics, focusing on the coordination and control of autonomous mobile robot swarms. His work primarily addresses fundamental problems in multi-robot systems, including gathering and formation control, particularly on constrained environments like grid planes. Kim’s major contributions include developing algorithms for the gathering problem, where a group of robots must converge to a single point from any connected initial configuration. His most-cited paper, “Gathering of seven autonomous mobile robots on triangular grids” (2021, 3 citations), provides a solution for a specific number of robots on a triangular grid, ensuring connectivity and convergence. In “Brief Announcement: Mutually-Visible Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Mobile Robots on Grid Plane” (2022, 2 citations), he tackles the challenge of forming a uniform circle under asynchronous timing and visibility constraints. Though his citation counts are modest, Kim’s work is notable for addressing niche but critical aspects of robot coordination, such as grid-based environments and limited visibility, which are essential for real-world applications like warehouse automation and environmental monitoring. His research contributes to the theoretical foundations of distributed algorithms for multi-robot systems.