Papers
15
Total Citations
602
H-Index
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About
Soonkyum Kim is a leading researcher in the field of multi-robot manipulation and topological motion planning, with a particular focus on aerial and tethered robotic systems. His most influential work, "Planning and control for cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots" (234 citations), established foundational methods for coordinating multiple aerial robots to transport payloads via cables, addressing both individual robot control and payload trajectory tracking. Kim made significant contributions to understanding tethered robot navigation, developing topological approaches that enable robots to navigate complex environments while respecting cable length constraints—work that has been cited over 100 times across multiple papers. His research on using cables for object separation and manipulation (44 citations) has practical applications in environmental cleanup operations, such as oil spill skimming. Kim also advanced the field through his work on kinematics and statics of aerial manipulation (39 citations), fast motion generation using principal components (31 citations), and multi-robot topological exploration of unknown environments (22 citations). His innovative use of homology class constraints for optimal trajectory generation demonstrates his ability to bridge theoretical topology with practical robotics challenges.
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- 2Path planning for a tethered mobile robot66 citations · 2014
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- 8Planar, bimanual, whole-arm grasping23 citations · 2012
- 9Topological exploration of unknown and partially known environments22 citations · 2013
- 10Optimal trajectory generation under homology class constraints19 citations · 2012