Taek‐Kun Nam
Papers
7
Total Citations
94
H-Index
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About
Taek-Kun Nam is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work centers on the dynamics and control of underactuated and free-flying robotic systems. His most significant contributions lie in developing analytical solutions for time-optimal control of multi-link aerial robots — a notoriously challenging problem owing to the complex interplay of angular momentum, nonholonomic constraints, and singular control phenomena. His 2001 paper on analytical time-optimal control for a two-link planar aerobot, his most cited work with 43 citations, provided a complete closed-form solution to posture control under initial angular momentum conditions, directly advancing the design of gymnastic and jumping robots. Nam also pioneered Variable Constraint Control (VCC), a novel framework that exploits first integrals as invariant manifolds to stabilize underactuated free-flying robots — work published across several foundational papers from 1999 to 2000. His 2002 contribution on swing-up control of the acrobot using backstepping further demonstrated his versatility across nonlinear control methodologies. With a focused and technically rigorous body of work, Nam has made lasting contributions to the theoretical foundations governing agile, underactuated robotic locomotion.
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- 2RoboCup. Swing-up Control and Singular Problem of an Acrobot System.17 citations · 2002
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