Papers
13
Total Citations
206
H-Index
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About
Joon-Young Park is a robotics researcher whose work spans specialized robotic systems for high-risk infrastructure inspection and maintenance, robot kinematics design, and structural health monitoring. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to live-line power transmission robotics, having developed a series of increasingly refined inspection and cleaning robots for 345-kV suspension insulator strings — systems designed to prevent insulator failure without de-energizing power lines. His 2012 paper on the inspection robot, which garnered 61 citations, stands as his most recognized contribution, highlighting a compact, lightweight design with superior insulation properties compared to predecessor systems. Earlier work from 2006 and 2009 established foundational cleaning robot architectures that preceded this achievement. Beyond power infrastructure, Park has made meaningful contributions to robot kinematics design methodology, introducing a Grid Method-based approach that simplifies kinematic optimization problems — work cited 28 times and extended in subsequent publications. His research portfolio also encompasses trajectory-tracking control for nuclear reactor inspection robots and, more recently, LiDAR-equipped mobile robots for long-term tunnel structural health monitoring. Collectively, Park's body of work reflects a consistent focus on deploying intelligent robotic systems in demanding, safety-critical environments.
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- 3Task-oriented design of robot kinematics using the Grid Method28 citations · 2003
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- 5Development of Automatic Cleaning Robot for Live-line Insulators12 citations · 2006
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- 8Implementation of Control System for Insulator Cleaning Robot7 citations · 2006
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