Kyunghwan Kim

About

Kyunghwan Kim is a robotics researcher whose work spans an impressive breadth of domains, from construction automation and surgical robotics to wearable systems and machine learning-driven medical devices. His early contributions in the late 1990s and early 2000s focused on wearable robotic arms and exoskeletal systems, with multiple publications exploring pneumatic actuation, force reflection, and human-robot interaction — work that laid important groundwork for modern rehabilitation and teleoperation technologies. His most cited work, a laser-based lifting-path tracking system for robotic tower cranes (2009, 105 citations), demonstrated his ability to bridge theoretical robotics with real-world industrial applications. Kim has also made significant inroads into minimally invasive surgery, developing tele-operated master-slave systems for neurosurgery and, more recently, applying deep reinforcement learning to automate guidewire navigation in coronary artery procedures (2021, 53 citations) — a clinically meaningful advance given the steep learning curve of percutaneous interventions. His work on Delta-type parallel robot dynamics and cooperative multi-robot manipulation further reflects his versatility across mechanical modeling and control. Collectively, Kim's portfolio reveals a researcher consistently pushing robotic systems closer to human-scale precision and real-world clinical and industrial utility.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A laser-technology-based lifting-path tracking system for a robotic tower crane

   105 citations · 2009
2. 2
   Deep Reinforcement Learning for Guidewire Navigation in Coronary Artery Phantom

   53 citations · 2021
3. 3
   A 7 DOF Wearable Robotic Arm Using Pneumatic Actuators

   27 citations · 2001
4. 4
   Dynamics modeling of a Delta-type parallel robot (ISR 2013)

   26 citations · 2013
5. 5
   A wearable robotic arm with high force-reflection capability

   18 citations · 2002
6. 6
   Tele-operation master-slave system for minimal invasive brain surgery

   17 citations · 2009
7. 7
   Implementation of cooperative manipulation using decentralized robust position/force control

   13 citations · 2002
8. 8
   Providing Haptic ''Hints'' to Automatic Motion Planners

   8 citations · 1999
9. 9
   An interactive generalized motion simulator (GMS) in an object-oriented framework

   8 citations · 2002
10. 10
    Design and control of a wearable robot

    7 citations · 2002

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