Min Kyung Shin
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Min Kyung Shin is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction safety, with a focus on understanding and mitigating the risks of physical contact between humans and collaborative robots. Her work is foundational in establishing biomechanical injury thresholds for human-robot collisions, directly informing safety standards for the next generation of industrial and service robots. Her most cited paper, "Assessment of pressure pain thresholds in collisions with collaborative robots" (2019, 33 citations), provides critical data on the force levels at which humans experience pain from robot contact, a key metric for designing inherently safe systems. She further advanced the field by identifying the mechanisms of closed cutaneous injuries from mechanical trauma, as detailed in her 2019 study (4 citations), which helps differentiate between superficial and deep tissue damage. By bridging robotics engineering with medical biomechanics, Shin’s research is essential for developing safer, more trustworthy collaborative robots that can work alongside humans without causing harm. Her work is widely referenced by engineers and safety regulators aiming to operationalize human pain and injury data into practical robot control and design guidelines.
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