Sunhong Park

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Sunhong Park is a robotics and autonomous systems researcher whose work has made significant contributions to indoor mobile robot navigation, particularly through innovative applications of passive RFID technology. Working primarily throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, Park pioneered methods for robot localization and pose estimation using passive radio-frequency identification tags — a cost-effective alternative to more complex sensor-based navigation systems. His most influential work, "Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Using Passive RFID in Indoor Environment" (2009), has garnered over 227 citations and remains a foundational reference in the field, introducing efficient techniques for determining a robot's position relative to IC tags in real-world environments. Park further refined these methods by developing read-time modeling to reduce localization error, addressing practical challenges such as sparse tag distribution and single-antenna limitations. Later research expanded his navigation framework by fusing RFID systems with wireless sensor networks (WSN), enhancing both speed and precision for mobile robots. His work on wall-climbing robots and contextual awareness in navigation systems demonstrates a broader interest in applied robotics. With a cumulative citation count exceeding 360, Park's contributions remain highly relevant to researchers tackling indoor autonomous navigation challenges.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Using Passive RFID in Indoor Environment

   227 citations · 2009
2. 2
   Indoor localization for autonomous mobile robot based on passive RFID

   42 citations · 2009
3. 3
   An intelligent localization algorithm using read time of RFID system

   27 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Autonomous navigation of a mobile robot based on passive RFID

   24 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Wireless Sensor Network and RFID Fusion Approach for Mobile Robot Navigation

   11 citations · 2013
6. 6
   Autonomous Navigation System for Mobile Robot Using Randomly Distributed Passive RFID Tags

   7 citations · 2010
7. 7
   An approach for mobile robot navigation under randomly distributed passive RFID environment

   7 citations · 2009
8. 8
   Wireless sensor network and RFID sensor fusion for mobile robots navigation

   6 citations · 2010
9. 9
   SIEN: Telescopic-Arm Climbing-Support Robot

   5 citations · 2009
10. 10
    Contextual Awareness in a WSN/RFID Fusion Navigation System

    4 citations · 2014

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