Yong–San Yoon
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Total Citations
187
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About
Yong-San Yoon is a robotics and mechanical engineering researcher whose work spans bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion, surgical robotics, and assistive rehabilitation systems. With a career rooted at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Yoon has made foundational contributions to robot stability analysis, most notably introducing the concept of the dynamic stability margin for designing robust gaits in biped robots — a 1995 paper that remains his most influential work with 35 citations. His research extended this stability framework to quadruped walking robots, advancing the mathematical modeling of dynamic locomotion under full inertial effects. Yoon is equally recognized for his pioneering work in medical and assistive robotics. He led the development of ARTHROBOT, a surgical robot system for total hip arthroplasty featuring an innovative gauge-based registration method, producing multiple cited publications validated through experimental trials on anatomical models. Complementing this, his KARES rehabilitation robot system demonstrated a strong commitment to improving independence for elderly and disabled populations. Collectively, his portfolio — spanning trajectory optimization for redundant robots, human-mechatronic smart environments, and articulated suspension vehicles — reflects a broad and sustained contribution to applied robotics research, accumulating nearly 180 citations across diverse domains.
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- 4ARTHROBOT : a new surgical robot system for total hip arthroplasty28 citations · 2002
- 5Dynamic instant gait stability measure for quadruped walking robot19 citations · 1999
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