Jong-Hyeok Park
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About
Jong-Hyeok Park is a researcher focused on the critical and emerging field of human-robot safety, specifically investigating the biomechanics of injury during collisions between humans and mobile robots. His work addresses a pressing societal concern as robots become more prevalent in shared spaces. Park's major contributions lie in the computational and experimental assessment of injury risk, using advanced simulation tools like MADYMO to model unconstrained frontal collisions. He has pioneered the application of established automotive injury metrics—such as the Combined Thoracic Index (CTI) and Viscous Criteria (VC)—to the novel context of human-robot impacts, translating these indices into Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) levels to quantify potential harm. His research also uniquely explores neck injury as a primary injury mode in such constrained collisions. While his most cited papers have garnered 4 and 2 citations respectively, their significance lies in laying the foundational methodology for a nascent field. Park’s work is notable for being among the first to rigorously apply automotive crash-test principles to mobile robot safety, providing essential data for designing safer robots and informing future safety standards.
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