Joonhong Lim

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Joonhong Lim is a robotics researcher whose career spans foundational work in cooperative robotic manipulation through to modern mobile robot navigation and control. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering investigations in the mid-1980s into coordinated dual-arm robotic systems, exploring how two robot arms can collaboratively grasp and transport objects — work that earned his 1985 paper 32 citations and established him as an early contributor to multi-robot coordination theory. His subsequent studies refined these ideas through resolved position control and admissible trajectory determination, tackling the complex kinematic and dynamic constraints inherent in tightly coupled robotic systems. Lim's research interests later broadened to encompass wheeled mobile robots, where he developed hybrid control architectures combining discrete and continuous state systems to achieve high-speed wall following and obstacle avoidance. His work on wireless image transmission and Bluetooth-based robot monitoring reflected a forward-looking engagement with emerging communication technologies. More recently, he contributed to vision-based localization using omnidirectional cameras, addressing the practical computational challenges of real-world robot navigation. Across more than two decades of scholarship, Lim's contributions collectively illuminate the progression from classical manipulator control toward autonomous, perception-driven mobile robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   On a control scheme for two cooperating robot arms

   32 citations · 1985
2. 2
   Resolved position control for two cooperating robot arms

   10 citations · 1987
3. 3
   Admissible trajectory determination for two cooperating robot arms

   9 citations · 1988
4. 4
   Omni Camera Vision-Based Localization for Mobile Robots Navigation Using Omni-Directional Images

   7 citations · 2011
5. 5
   Control and monitoring of mobile robot system using Bluetooth

   7 citations · 2003
6. 6
   Control of mobile robot system with wireless transmission of image information.

   7 citations · 2004
7. 7
   High-speed wall following and obstacle avoidance of wheeled mobile robots using hybrid behavior specifications

   5 citations · 2002
8. 8
   A hybrid system approach to motion control of wheeled mobile robots

   5 citations · 2002
9. 9
   Resolved motion control of redundant robot manipulators by neural optimization networks

   3 citations · 2002
10. 10
    On-line trajectory planning for robot manipulators

    2 citations · 1990

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