Hosik Chae

University of California, Los Angeles

Papers

9

Total Citations

211

H-Index

7

About

Hosik Chae is a roboticist whose research bridges perception, planning, and control for legged and manipulation systems. His most impactful work centers on quadruped locomotion, where he developed the ALPHRED robot—a multi-modal platform for package delivery that has garnered 91 citations—and pioneered a framework for stable, autonomous locomotion over unknown terrain using visual feedback and mixed-integer convex optimization (15 citations). Chae has also made significant contributions to buoyancy-assisted legged robots, notably BALLU2, a lightweight biped designed for safe human interaction, and introduced a residual physics learning method for sim-to-real transfer on these platforms. In manipulation, he proposed an online task-planning framework using mixed-integer programming for dual-arm cooking robots (16 citations), enabling efficient scheduling of complex multi-step tasks. His practical engineering insight is evident in his analysis and noise modeling of the Intel RealSense D435 depth camera (61 citations), a widely used sensor in mobile robotics. Chae’s work is distinguished by its focus on real-world deployment, as shown by his lessons-learned paper on a hotel concierge robot, and by his creation of the Surface Material Dataset for Robotics Applications, which provides friction coefficient data for vision-based terrain segmentation.

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H-Index
9
Papers
211
Total Citations
23
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
ALPHRED: A Multi-Modal Operations Quadruped Robot for Package Delivery Applications
91 citations · 2020
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2020 (2 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 23
🏛 Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles

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