Yongbon Koo

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

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Yongbon Koo is a leading researcher in intelligent vehicle systems and autonomous driving technologies, with a primary focus on human-vehicle cooperation and distributed robotics infrastructure. His most impactful contribution is the development of the "Co-Pilot Agent," a core component of ETRI's Co-Pilot project, which enables automated vehicles to cooperate with human drivers, interact with other road users, and obey traffic rules without collisions—a foundational work cited 31 times. Koo also advanced the Robot Operating System (ROS) ecosystem by designing a distributed logging system (2019, 6 citations) that overcomes the limitations of ROSBAG, enabling more reliable data recording for complex robot clusters and autonomous driving platforms. His work bridges critical gaps in vehicle-to-driver interaction and system-level data management, directly supporting the safety and scalability of next-generation autonomous systems. Koo's research is essential reading for engineers and researchers working on cooperative driving, vehicle automation, and ROS-based distributed architectures.