Ki-Woong Lim

Korea Institute of Science and Technology, National Cancer Center

Papers

Total Citations

112

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About

Ki-Woong Lim is a robotics and systems engineer whose research spans robot middleware architecture and medical robotics. His most influential contributions emerged in 2006 through a focused body of work exploring the application of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology as a foundational framework for robot software development. By systematically comparing UPnP against established middleware solutions such as TAO CORBA, Lim demonstrated UPnP's superior suitability for service-oriented, peer-to-peer robot architectures in ubiquitous computing environments. His quartet of UPnP-focused papers — covering requirements, system approaches, SDK development, and ubiquitous robot control — collectively garnered 88 citations, establishing him as a key early voice in standardizing robot middleware design. These works laid practical groundwork for developers seeking scalable, automatically discoverable robot service integration. Lim later extended his expertise into precision medical technology, contributing to the design of a magnetic resonance image-guided breast needle intervention robot system (2017, 24 citations), reflecting a meaningful evolution toward clinically impactful robotics. His career demonstrates a consistent commitment to bridging software architecture principles with real-world robotic applications, from ubiquitous computing environments to life-improving medical devices.