DongWook Kim Lab

2025

• DongWook Kim, Seunghoon Kang, Yong‑Lae Park, “Optimal Sensor Placement for Motion Tracking of Soft Wearables Using Bayesian Sampling,” Soft Robotics, To be included in Vol. 12, No. 5 — Online Available: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/soro.2024.0044.

2023

• DongWook Kim, Sudong Lee, Tae Hwa Hong, Yong‑Lae Park, “Exploration‑Based Model Learning with Self‑Attention for Risk‑Sensitive Robot Control,” npj Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 7 (15 pp.), 2023.

2022

• Hyunin Lee, DongWook Kim, Yong‑Lae Park, “Explainable Deep Learning Model for EMG‑Based Finger Angle Estimation Using Attention,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 30, pp. 1877–1886, 2022.

2021

• DongWook Kim, Myungsun Park, Yong‑Lae Park, “Probabilistic Modeling and Bayesian Filtering for Improved State Estimation for Soft Robots,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 1728–1741, 2021. * The contents of this paper were also selected by ICRA’22 Program Committee for presentation at the conference.
• Daekyum Kim, Sang‑Hun Kim, Taekyoung Kim, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Minhyuk Lee, Wookeun Park, Subyeong Ku, DongWook Kim, Junghan Kwon, Hochang Lee, Joonbum Bae, Yong‑Lae Park, Kyu‑Jin Cho, Sungho Jo, “Review of Machine Learning Methods in Soft Robotics,” PLoS One, Vol. 16, No. 2, e0246102 (24 pp.), 2021.

2020

• DongWook Kim, Junghan Kwon, Byung Jun Jeon, Yong‑Lae Park, “Adaptive Calibration of Soft Sensors Using Optimal Transportation Transfer Learning for Mass Production and Long‑Term Usage,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1900178 (10 pp.), 2020.
• Jaewoong Jung, Myungsun Park, DongWook Kim, Yong‑Lae Park, “Optically Sensorized Elastomer Air Chamber for Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Pneumatic Actuator,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 2333–2340, 2020. * The contents of this paper were also selected by ICRA’20 Program Committee for presentation at the conference.
• Jae In Kim, Mineui Hong, Kyungjae Lee, DongWook Kim, Yong‑Lae Park, Songhwai Oh, “Learning to Walk a Tripod Mobile Robot Using Nonlinear Soft Vibration Actuators with Entropy Adaptive Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 2317–2324, 2020. * The contents of this paper were also selected by ICRA’20 Program Committee for presentation at the conference.

2019

• Jae In Kim, DongWook Kim (co‑1st), Matthew Krebs, Young Soo Park, Yong‑Lae Park, “Force Sensitive Robotic End‑Effector Using Embedded Fiber Optics and Deep Learning Characterization for Dexterous Remote Manipulation,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 3481–3488, 2019. * The contents of this paper were also selected by IROS’19 Program Committee for presentation at the conference.
• DongWook Kim, Jae In Kim, Yong‑Lae Park, “A Simple Tripod Mobile Robot Using Soft Membrane Vibration Actuators,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 2289–2295, 2019. * The contents of this paper were also selected by ICRA’19 Program Committee for presentation at the conference.
• Se‑hun Park, Jaehyun Yi, DongWook Kim, Youngbin Lee, Sumin Koo, Yong‑Lae Park, “A Lightweight, Soft Wearable Sleeve for Rehabilitation of Forearm Pronation and Supination,” Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft’19), pp. 611–616, Seoul, Korea, April 2019.
• Myungsun Park, Yunsik Ohm, DongWook Kim, Yong‑Lae Park, “Multi‑Material Soft Strain Sensors with High Gauge Factors for Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Bending Actuators,” Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft’19), pp. 384–390, Seoul, Korea, April 2019.

2018

• DongWook Kim, Yong‑Lae Park, “Contact Localization and Force Estimation of Soft Tactile Sensors Using Artificial Intelligence,” Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’18), pp. 7480–7485, Madrid, Spain, October 2018.

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