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Seungho Lee’s research career bridges two distinct fields: industrial robotics and autonomous defense systems. His early work focused on human-robot interaction, notably through the development of graphical user interfaces for industrial robots (1998, 6 citations), which laid groundwork for accessible robot programming. Lee’s most significant contributions, however, center on harbor defense and pursuit-evasion scenarios. He pioneered real-time receding horizon control (RHC) laws for controlling pursuers against hostile intruders, detailed in a 2015 paper (4 citations) that validated the approach experimentally on a robotic testbed. Building on this, he co-developed a min-max algorithm RHC law (2016, 3 citations), providing a validated centralized feedback strategy for defending harbors from suicidal intruder fleets. Lee also contributed to military robotics with a small-sized launchable reconnaissance robot (2012, 3 citations), designed for anti-terror operations to minimize casualties. Though his citation counts are modest, his work demonstrates practical, real-world applications of control theory and robotics in high-stakes defense environments. Lee’s research exemplifies how theoretical control algorithms can be translated into deployable robotic systems for security and industrial use.