Shin-Guk Kim

Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University

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Shin-Guk Kim is a robotics researcher whose work centers on the coordinated control of multi-robot systems, with a particular focus on formation control and adaptive tracking. His most influential contribution, the 2014 paper "Virtual target tracking of mobile robot and its application to formation control" (17 citations), introduces a novel framework for enabling mobile robots to maintain stable formations by tracking a virtual target, a concept that has proven valuable for applications in surveillance, exploration, and cooperative manipulation. In his earlier 2011 work, Kim developed a distributed robust adaptive controller that guarantees asymptotic convergence of multiple robots to desired positions around a moving target—a significant advancement in the field of cooperative target capturing. This controller addresses the critical challenge of ensuring stability and precision when robots must dynamically encircle and track an evasive object. While his citation counts reflect a focused, early-career impact, Kim’s contributions to adaptive kinematic control and formation strategies provide foundational insights for researchers working on autonomous multi-agent systems, offering practical solutions for real-world coordination problems in robotics.