Papers
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Total Citations
135
H-Index
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About
Myoungkuk Park is a robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot motion control, multi-robot coordination, and autonomous systems for real-world applications. With over 130 citations across his published work, Park has made enduring contributions to two distinct but complementary research threads. His earlier work established foundational advances in passive trailer systems for mobile robots. His 2004 paper on controlling mobile robots with passive multiple trailers (41 citations) addressed the notoriously difficult challenge of kinematic instability in such configurations, while subsequent studies extended this to backward-motion control—a particularly complex problem that has proven influential in service robotics design. Park later broadened his focus to multi-robot coordination, tackling problems in task allocation, path planning, and workload balancing for heterogeneous robot teams. His contributions address practical deployment scenarios including warehouse logistics, perimeter surveillance, agricultural harvesting, and underwater operations. His 2021 heuristic for the Multiple Depot Heterogeneous Traveling Salesman Problem (14 citations) exemplifies this direction, offering computationally efficient solutions for complex real-world scheduling challenges. More recently, Park has explored autonomous forklift navigation using model predictive control and trajectory planning in smart warehouse environments. His career reflects a consistent commitment to bridging theoretical robotics with practical, deployable systems across diverse application domains.
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Top Papers
- 1Control of a mobile robot with passive multiple trailers41 citations · 2004
- 2Backward-motion control of a mobile robot with n passive off-hooked trailers38 citations · 2011
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