Sunwoo Hwang

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Sunwoo Hwang is a robotics researcher whose work centers on safe motion planning and control for autonomous systems, with a particular focus on aerial robots. His major contributions include developing novel approaches to safety verification in motion planning, where he investigates the behavior of safe receding horizon planners with infinitesimal update intervals to reduce computational burden while maintaining safety guarantees. Hwang has also made notable advances in aerial robotics, designing an omnidirectional tiltrotor capable of autonomous perching and unperching on ferromagnetic surfaces—a capability that addresses the underexplored challenge of aerial unperching to extend operational time. His most cited work, a comprehensive survey on safe motion planning and control for mobile robots (2024, 8 citations), provides a valuable resource for researchers in the field. With his innovative switching controller design and theoretical contributions to motion planning, Hwang is establishing himself as an emerging voice in robotics safety and aerial manipulation.