Seungyeon Kim, Ph.D.

Seungyeon Kim received the B.S. degree from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from the Department of Intelligent Convergence Systems, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2023. From 2023 to 2024, he was a staff engineer in the Autonomous Material Development TU at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology(SAIT), Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. From October 2024, he has been a principal engineer at Robros Inc., Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include robotic hand design, telemanipulation, and AI-based grasping for multi-fingered robotic hands.

Selected Publications

Anthropomorphic Rolling Contact joint with Kinematically Variable Torsional Stiffness

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Elastomeric Continuously Variable Transmission Combined With Twisted String Actuator

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Education

Ph.D., Intelligent Convergence Systems
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (Sep. 2015 – Feb. 2023)
B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (Mar. 2011 – Aug. 2015)

Work Experience

Principal Engineer
Robros, Republic of Korea (Oct. 2024 – Present)
Staff Engineer, Autonomous Material Development TU
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea (Mar. 2023 – Sep. 2024)

Project Experience

Robotic Hand Team Leader - TEAM SNU (Final)
ANA Avatar XPRIZE (Nov. 2021 – Nov. 2022)
Designed a 4-finger robotic hand capable of high-intensity work and developed a human hand-robotic hand posture mapping algorithm for telemanipulation.
Robotic Hand Team Leader - TEAM SNU (Semifinal)
ANA Avatar XPRIZE (Jan. 2020 – Oct. 2021)
Designed a 3-finger robotic hand with flexible joints for safe human-robot interaction and proposed a novel type of flexible joint structure.
Furniture Assembly AI-Robot Challenge
(Apr. 2019 – Mar. 2021)
Designed an automated furniture assembly robot platform including grippers and tools.
Design DYROS JET (Humanoid Robot)
(Feb 2016. – Sep. 2016)
Designed the humanoid robot (DYROS JET) based on THORMANG to increase the range of motion, reduce the weight, and adjust the body ratio.

Publications

Kim, S., Sung, E., & Park, J. (2023). ARC Joint: Anthropomorphic Rolling Contact Joint With Kinematically Variable Torsional Stiffness. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(3), 1810-1817.
Kim, S., Sung, E., & Park, J. (2022). 3-Finger Robotic Hand and Hand Posture Mapping Algorithm for Avatar Robot. Journal of Korea Robotics Society, 17(3), 322-333.
Lee, H., Park, S., Jang, K., Kim, S., & Park, J. (2022). Contact State Estimation for Peg-in-Hole Assembly Using Gaussian Mixture Model. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 3349-3356.
Lee, H., Lee, S. Y., Jang, K., Kim, S., Ko, J., & Park, J. (2021). Search Trajectory with Twisting Motion for Dual Peg-in-Hole Assembly. Intelligent Service Robotics, 14(4), 597-609.
Sim, J., Kim, S., Park, S., Kim, S., Kim, M., & Park, J. (2021). Design of JET Humanoid Robot with Compliant Modular Actuators for Industrial and Service Applications. Applied Sciences, 11(13), 6152.
Kim, S., Sim, J., & Park, J. (2020). Elastomeric Continuously Variable Transmission Combined with Twisted String Actuator. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4), 5477-5484.
Kim, S., Kim, J., Kim, M., Kim, S., & Park, J. (2019). Grasping Force Estimation by sEMG Signals and Arm Posture: Tensor Decomposition Approach. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 16(3), 455-467.

Conference Papers

Sung, E., You, S., Kim, S., & Park, J. (2023, December). SNU-Avatar Robot Hand: Dexterous Robot Hand with Prismatic Four-Bar Linkage for Versatile Daily Applications. In 2023 IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
Park, B., Jung, J., Sim, J., Kim, S., Ahn, J., Lim, D., ... & Park, J. (2022). Team SNU's Avatar System for Teleoperation Using Humanoid Robot: ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition. In RSS 2022 workshop on "Towards Robot Avatars: Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition".
You, S., Sim, J., Kim, S., Sung, E., & Park, J. (2021, July). Development of Harmonic Reducing Transmission for Legged Robots. In
You, S., Sim, J., Kim, S., Sung, E., & Park, J. (2021, July). Development of Harmonic Reducing Transmission for Legged Robots. In 2021 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR) (pp. 239-243). IEEE.
Park, S., Baek, J., Kim, S., & Park, J. (2020, July). Rigid Grasp Candidate Generation for Assembly Tasks. In 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) (pp. 589-594). IEEE.
Kim, S., & Park, J. (2018, November). Gripper with Thumb Adduction/Abduction Joint for Enhanced In-hand Orientation Manipulation. In 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Awards

Jul. 2023: 제33회 과학기술우수논문상, 한국과학기술단체총연합회
Feb. 2023: Best Paper Award 2022, The Journal of Korea Robotics Society, Korea Robotics Society
Jan. 2019: Gold Prize, KROS RED (Robot Engineering & Design) Show, Korea Robotics Society
Feb. 2017: Excellence Prize, KRoC Robot Design Competition, Korea Robotics Society

Patents

Kim, S., Sung, E., & Park, J. 2022. Rolling contact joint and Robot comprising the same. Republic of Korea Patent Application 1020220071227, filed Jun 2022. Patent Pending
You, S., Kim, S., Sim, J., Sung, E., & Park, J. 2022. Harmonic reducer and power transmission system including the same. Republic of Korea Patent Application 1020220018888, filed Feb 2022. Patent Pending
You, S., Kim, S., Sim, J., Sung, E., & Park, J. 2021. Harmonic Reducing System, and Power Transmission System and Robot System Including the Same. Republic of Korea Patent Application 1020210182330, filed Dec 2021. Patent Pending