Papers
5
Total Citations
154
H-Index
4
About
Yunsu Bok is a roboticist whose work lies at the intersection of humanoid robotics, sensor fusion, and autonomous navigation. He is best known for his pivotal role in Team KAIST’s success at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals, where his team’s robot, DRC-HUBO+, demonstrated remarkable performance in disaster-response scenarios. His most-cited paper (127 citations) details the robot system and control strategy that enabled the platform to complete eight complex tasks under degraded communication, mimicking the conditions of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Beyond the DRC, Bok has advanced vision-based autonomous navigation, tackling the challenge of environmental change that often confounds traditional methods. He has also developed robust homing systems using laser-camera fusion and proposed novel object detection techniques leveraging 3D point clouds for mobile robots. His work on sensor fusion and real-world navigation has earned him recognition in both the robotics and computer vision communities. Bok’s contributions continue to influence the design of resilient, perceptually aware robots capable of operating in unstructured, hazardous environments.
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Top Papers
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- 3Robust vision-based autonomous navigation against environment changes7 citations · 2008
- 4Autonomous homing based on laser-camera fusion system7 citations · 2012
- 5Object proposal using 3D point cloud for DRC-HUBO+3 citations · 2016