I am currently a Guest Researcher at German Aerospace Center DLR, working on humanoid navigation under the supervision of Prof. Jinoh Lee. I am pursuing my undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University, where I am advised by Prof. Ayoung Kim with a focus on perception.

My research centers on safe autonomy, bridging perception and control through optimization-based approaches. I focus on robustness and reliability, with experimental validation. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunities to work with variety of robotic platforms.

I was a project intern at ETH Zürich, managing distributed optimization. I have also developed an autonomous car and quadcopter through student clubs and participated in the international competition. I co-organized a non-profit organization for AI education, AI Tech Play, and hosted an autonomous RC car competition for students nationwide.

Publication

  1. 2D Ego-Motion with Yaw Estimation using Only mmWave Radars via Two-Way weighted ICP Hojune Kim, Hyesu Jang, and Ayoung Kim ICRA Workshop Radar in Robotics 2024 [Abstract] [arXiv] [Poster]

Projects

  1. Humanoid Navigation on Unknown Semantic Mapping via Kinematic aided Visual Odometry German Aerospace Center DLR Guest Student Researcher On-going Project
    2024
    Crowd Navigation with LiDAR via Reinforcement Learning Perception and Learning for Robotics graduate course project, ETH Zürich [Video] [PDF] Teacher-Student Policy, LiDAR Encoding, Legged Robot
    2024
    Gaussian Belief Propagation for Continuous time SLAM Vision for Robotics Lab. ETH Zürich Undergraduate Researcher [PDF] [Slides] [Code] Distributed Optimization, Continuous Time SLAM
    2024
    Display Virtual Cubes on Your Desk! Computer Vision course project, SNU [Video] [PDF] [Code] 3D Vision, Optical Flow, Augmented Reality
    2023
    Autonomous Flight Landing in Quadrotor system Bulnabi, autonomous flight drone club [Code] Pose Estimation, Bézier Curve, PX4-Autopilot
    2023
    Fault Tolerant Control of Quadcopter Decision Making graduate course project, SNU [PDF] Feedback Linearization, Sliding Mode Control, Backstepping Control
    2023
    Thermal camera & Lidar Direct SLAM Robust Perception and Mobile Robotics Lab. SNU Undergraduate Researcher [Code] Direct SLAM, visual-lidar SLAM
    2023
    Modeling and Making Multimodal Sensor system Robust Perception and Mobile Robotics Lab. SNU Undergraduate Researcher System Design and Manufacture, Multi-sensor Calibration
    2023
    Searchable Dynamic Web Editor Addit, Start-up Co-Founder [Video] [News] [Extension] Web Programming, UI Design, Enterprise
    2022
    International Autonomous Driving Car Competition SNU ZERO, autonomous driving car club Sensor Technician [Video] EKF-SLAM, LiDAR-Camera Fusion, RRT*
    2021
    Organized Autonomous RC car competition for 200+ Students Nationwide AI Tech Play, non-profit organization for AI education Hardware Team Leader [Website] [Youtube] System Design and Manufacture, Motor Control, Software Implementation
    2021
    Real-time Flood Monitoring System by Satellite Image Satellite Geophysics Lab. SNU Undergraduate Researcher Supervised Learning, Semantic Segmentation
    2020

Personal Activties

  1. CH-47D Helicopter Flight Attendant Republic of Korea Army [News] Tactical missions, Wild Fire Extinguishment, Helicopter Maintenance
    2021 - 2023
    Street Dancer Hoofers in SNU(H.I.S.) [Video] Locking, Popping Dance
    2019 - 2021