Bum Hee Lee
Papers
8
Total Citations
190
H-Index
6
About
Bum Hee Lee is a pioneer in multi-robot coordination and motion planning, with a career spanning foundational work in collision avoidance, cooperative manipulation, and mobile robot navigation. His most influential contribution is the introduction of the **view-time concept**—a time-based planning framework that allows robots to anticipate and react to moving obstacles. This innovation, central to his 2002 work on stochastic obstacle prediction (26 citations) and his artificial potential field method (12 citations), enables robots to navigate dynamic environments safely. Lee’s earlier research laid the groundwork for cooperative robotics: his 1994 paper on minimum delay time collision avoidance (89 citations) proposed a simple yet effective method for preventing arm collisions using distance functions, while his 1993 study on optimal load distribution (29 citations) extended force ellipsoid theory to dual-arm systems, solving how to share loads between cooperating robots. He further refined force distribution using nonlinear programming (18 citations). With over 190 total citations, Lee’s work remains essential for researchers in multi-robot systems, offering elegant, analytic solutions that bridge theory and practical implementation. His view-time methodology continues to inspire modern approaches to real-time obstacle avoidance.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Collision avoidance of two general robot manipulators by minimum delay time89 citations · 1994
- 2Optimal load distribution for two cooperating robots using a force ellipsoid29 citations · 1993
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- 6A Robot Motion Planning Method for Time-Varying obstacle avoidance9 citations · 1992
- 7A view-time based potential field method for moving obstacle avoidance4 citations · 2002
- 8A comparative model-based analysis and design for multi-robot systems3 citations · 1995