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Total Citations
274
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About
Seung‐Jong Kim is a robotics and rehabilitation engineering researcher whose work spans human-robot interaction, robotic exoskeletons, and intelligent motion systems. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to robotic gait rehabilitation, most notably the development of the COWALK exoskeleton system, which introduced natural pelvic movement across 14 degrees of freedom — a significant advancement over conventional rehabilitation robots. His 2019 paper on Gaussian process trajectory learning for individualized gait motion synthesis, now with 37 citations, demonstrated a sophisticated approach to generating personalized reference motions at user-designated walking speeds, bridging machine learning and rehabilitation robotics. Kim has also made meaningful contributions to safe human-robot interaction, designing compliant robotic arms with magnetorheological passive joints and developing variable stiffness joints using permanent magnets to minimize injury risk. His work extends further into human-computer interaction through real-time lip synchronization for social robots and electromagnetic actuation for micro-robots. Clinical validation of his rehabilitation systems, including a randomized trial examining pelvic movement effects in stroke patients, underscores his commitment to translating engineering innovation into therapeutic practice. Collectively, his research reflects a career dedicated to making robots safer, smarter, and genuinely useful in human health contexts.
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- 6Optimal Design of a Variable Stiffness Joint Using Permanent Magnets14 citations · 2007
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