NEWS
2024
February, 2024 Team KAIST awarded 2nd Place Winner in MBZIRC 2023
Feb, 23, 2024 Master student Eunghyun Kim was awarded Most Outstanding Paper Award from KRoC 2024
2023
June, 2023 Master student Donghyun Kim was selected to participate in OCEANS'23 Student Poster Competition.
2022
June, 23, 2022 Ph.D. Student Kyungseo Kim was awarded Outstanding Paper Award from ICROS 2022
May, 13, 2022 Ph.D. Student Sol Han and M.S. Student Jungwoo Han were awarded Outstanding Paper Award from KRoC 2022
Jan., 18, 2022 Ph.D. Student Jonghwi Kim was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from KSOE 2021
2021
Jan., 21, 2021 Ph.D. Student Junwoo Jang was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from KSOE 2020
2020
Dec., 03, 2020 Ph.D. Student Changyu Lee was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from KSOE 2020
Jul., 03, 2020 Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies Best Paper
2019
Dec., 06, 2019 Virtual RobotX (VRX) Competition 1st place
July., 26, 2019 MORIN-HERO Joint Summer Workshop
June., 20, 2019 Master student Keunhwan was selected to participate in OCEANS'19 Student Poster Competition.
April., 19, 2019 Ph.D. Student Junwoo Jang won the excellence prize in the Student Poster Competition UT'19 Kaohsiung
2018
Nov., 28, 2018 MORIN Winter Workshop
Sept., 21, 2018 Ph.D. student Junwoo Jang received Poster Presentation Award 2nd Place in 5th UTokyo-SJTU-KAIST Joint Academic Symposium
2017
Dec., 15, 2017 Ph.D. Students Jungwook Han and Yonghoon Cho received Best Paper Award at Maritime RobotX Forum
Sept., 2017 Ph.D. students, Taeyun Kim and Seonghun Hong were selected to participate in OCEANS'17 Student Poster Competition.
May, 04, 2017 Ph.D. Student Sukmin Yoon received Outstanding Paper Award at Conference of the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
May, 04, 2017 MORIN Spring Hiking
Apr., 20, 2017 Ph.D. student Seonghun Hong was awarded the grand prize from KAOSTS Paper Contest
Feb., 24, 2017 Ph.D. Student Taeyun Kim won the 1st prize at UT 2017 student poster presentation competition
Feb., 7, 2017 Ph.D. Student Jeonghyeon Wang was selected as the winner of the best robot vision paper award in KRoC 2017
Feb., 6, 2017 MORIN Winter Workshop
Feb., 3, 2017 Ph.D. Student Seonghun Hong was awarded as an Outstanding Student Paper Award from KSOE 2016
2016
Nov., 17, 2016 Master student Dongha Chung was awarded outstanding student paper presentation from KSOE 2016
Apr., 13, 2016 Ph.D. Student Jungwook Han was selected as the winner of the third prize award in OCEANS'16 Student Poster Competition
Jan., 27, 2016 Ph.D. student Jisung Park was selected as one of Asian Federation of Computer Vision(AFCV) Best Robot Vision Paper Award winners of Korea Robotics Society (KROS) 2016 held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea
Jan., 26, 2016 Master student Minju Kang is awarded Poster Award from KRoC
Jan., 26, 2016 MORIN Winter Workshop
2015
Oct., 22, 2015 Ph.D. Student Jeonghyeon Wang was awarded as an Outstanding Student Paper Award from KSOE
Author of the paper, Jeonghyeon Wang(white shirt)
Oct., 29, 2015 PhD Student Seonghun Hong was awarded the best paper award from JKROS
May., 7, 2015 Master Student Sungchur Kwon was awarded outstanding poster award from KRoC 2015
2014
Oct., 26, 2014 RobotX Competition 2nd place
May., 23, 2014 Master student Jisung Park was selected as one of five Outstanding Student Paper & Presentation Award winners of the 2014 spring conference of The Korean Society of Ocean Engineering held in Busan, Republic of Korea
Author of the paper, Jisung Park(Right)
Jan., 28, 2014 PhD Student Jungwook Han was awarded Outstanding Paper Award from KSOE
2024
February, 2024 Team KAIST awarded 2nd Place Winner in MBZIRC 2023
Team KAIST, led by students from the labs MORIN (of Prof. Jinhwan Kim) and USRG (of Prof. Hyunchul Shim),
and with PABLO AIR as a partner, won the 2nd Place Winner position in the MBZIRC Maritime Grand Challenge,
an international robot competition.
Total 18 students from the aforementioned labs were led by the student leaders Sol Han and Haggi Do of the MORIN lab
to achieve the automated mission accomplishment via USV-UAV integrated system in maritime environment.
Feb, 23, 2024 Master student Eunghyun Kim was awarded Most Outstanding Paper Award from KRoC 2024
A paper entitled “Motion planning for self-driving mobile robots in crowded spaces” has been awarded as an
Most Outstanding Paper Award from Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC) held in
Pyeongchang, Feb. 21-23, 2024.
2023
June, 2023 Master student Donghyun Kim was selected to participate in OCEANS'23 Student Poster Competition.
A paper entitled "Mission Planning for Collaborative Operations of Autonomous Marine Systems" was selected to participate in the MTS/IEEE OCEANS'23 Student
Poster Competition held in Limerick, Ireland, June 5-8. The conference covered
their registration fees and all travel expenses during the conference days.
2022
June, 23, 2022 Ph.D. Student Kyungseo Kim was awarded Outstanding Paper Award from ICROS 2022
A paper entitled “Action Sequence Planning for Efficient Mine Detection Using Multiple
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles” was awarded as an Outstanding Paper Award
form 37th Annual Conference of the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems held in
Geoje, June. 22-24, 2022.
May, 13, 2022 Ph.D. Student Sol Han and M.S. Student Jungwoo Han were awarded Outstanding Paper Award from KRoC 2022
A paper entitled “Multiagent SLAM and Path Planning for a Search Mission in Indoor
Post-Disaster Environment” was awarded as an
Outstanding Paper Award from Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC) held in
Pyeongchang, May. 11-14, 2022.
Jan., 18, 2022 Ph.D. Student Jonghwi Kim was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from KSOE 2021
A paper entitled "Multi-sensor fusion for Autonomous Navigation Experiment in Pohang
Canal" was awarded as an
Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from the 2021 Conference of the Korean
Society of Ocean Engineers held in
Busan, Oct. 21-22, 2021.
2021
Jan., 21, 2021 Ph.D. Student Junwoo Jang was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from KSOE 2020
A paper entitled "Self-supervised Depth Estimation using a Monocular Camera in
Maritime Environments" was awarded as an Outstanding Student Paper Presentation
Award from the 2020 Conference of the Korean Society of Ocean Engineers held in
Gangneung, December. 2-4, 2020.
2020
Dec., 03, 2020 Ph.D. Student Changyu Lee was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from KSOE 2020
A paper entitled "Model Predictive Control for Automatic Berthing of a
Twin-Propeller Twin-Rudder Ship" was awarded
as an Outstanding Student Paper Presentation Award from the 2020 Conference of the
Korean Society of
Ocean Engineers held in Busan, July. 22-23, 2020.
Jul., 03, 2020 Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies Best Paper
A paper entitled "Behavior-based Control Considering the Interaction Between a Human
Operator and an Autonomous Surface Vehicle" was awarded as a Best Paper Award from
30th Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies Best Paper Award.
2019
Dec., 06, 2019 Virtual RobotX (VRX) Competition 1st place
The first Virtual RobotX (VRX) Competition, sponsored by U.S. Office of
Naval Research, took place in 2019. A total of 17 teams from 9 countries
were participated in the competition, representing Asia, Australia and the
United States of America. After a year-long hard work, our team finally won
the first place. More information about the event is available on the
official VRX website at
https://robotx.org/programs/2019-virtual-robotx-competition/.
July., 26, 2019 MORIN-HERO Joint Summer Workshop
MORIN & HERO Lab (POSTECH) had a joint summer workshop at Gyeongju from July. 25 to
26. We discussed the research of each lab and future works.
June., 20, 2019 Master student Keunhwan was selected to participate in OCEANS'19 Student Poster Competition.
A paper entitled "Semantic Segmentation of Marine Radar Images using Convolutional
Neural Networks" was selected to participate in the MTS/IEEE OCEANS'19 Student
Poster Competition held in Marseille, France, June 17-20. The conference covered
their registration fees and all travel expenses during the conference days.
April., 19, 2019 Ph.D. Student Junwoo Jang won the excellence prize in the Student Poster Competition UT'19 Kaohsiung
Junwoo Jang, Ph.D. student, presented a paper entitled ‘Dynamic grid adaptation for
panel-based bathymetric SLAM’, which suggests an algorithm to simultaneously perform
underwater navigation and topographical map creation without incorrect update. He
awared the excellence prize in student poster in IEEE OES International Symposium
UT'19, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Apr. 16-19.
2018
Nov., 28, 2018 MORIN Winter Workshop
MORIN had a winter workshop at Hanwharesort, Daecheon from Nov. 28 to 29. with
all lab members. We looked back what we have done in 2018 and discussed about
the future works.
Sept., 21, 2018 Ph.D. student Junwoo Jang received Poster Presentation Award 2nd Place in 5th UTokyo-SJTU-KAIST Joint Academic Symposium
Junwoo's work entitled "Panel-Based Bathymetric SLAM with A Single-Beam Acoustic
Altimeter" was awarded as 2nd place in The 5th UTokyo-SJTU-KAIST Joint Academic
Symposium held in The University of Tokyo Kashiwa Campus, Japan, Sep., 21.
2017
Dec., 15, 2017 Ph.D. Students Jungwook Han and Yonghoon Cho received Best Paper Award at Maritime RobotX Forum
A paper entitled "Coastal SLAM with Marine Radar for USV Operation in
GPS-Restricted Situations" was awarded as Best Paper Award from RobotX Forum
held in Sydney, Australia December 13-15, 2017.
Sept., 2017 Ph.D. students, Taeyun Kim and Seonghun Hong were selected to participate in OCEANS'17 Student Poster Competition.
Taeyun's work entitled "A novel terrain information measure for
terrain-referenced underwater navigation"
and Seonghun's work entitled "Development of a hover-capable AUV system for
automated visual ship-hull inspection
and mapping" were selected to participate in the MTS/IEEE OCEANS'17 Student
Poster Competition held in Anchorage,
USA, September 18-21. The conference covered their registration fees and all
travel expenses during the conference days.
May, 04, 2017 Ph.D. Student Sukmin Yoon received Outstanding Paper Award at Conference of the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
A paper entitled "Efficient multi-agent task allocation algorithm considering
inactive agents contraints" was awarded as an Outstanding Paper Award from 32th
Annual Conference of the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems held in
Sokcho, May 11-13, 2017
May, 04, 2017 MORIN Spring Hiking
MORIN had a spring hiking at Sikjangsan, Daejon. Lab members promoted
colleagueship had refreshment for mind and body by walking through the woods.
Apr., 20, 2017 Ph.D. student Seonghun Hong was awarded the grand prize from KAOSTS Paper Contest
A paper entitled "A Robust loop-closure method for visual SLAM in unstructured
seafloor environment"
was awarded as the grand prize from Korean Assoication of Ocean Science and
Technology Societies (KAOSTS)
Paper Contest (Future Ocean Scientist and Engineer Award) held under the joint
auspices of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and KAOSTS.
Feb., 24, 2017 Ph.D. Student Taeyun Kim won the 1st prize at UT 2017 student poster presentation competition
Taeyun Kim, Ph.D. student, presented a paper entitled ‘Panel-based bathymetric
SLAM with a Multibeam Echosounder’,
which is an algorithm to simultaneously perform underwater navigation and
topographical map creation by using multibeam echosounder underwater terrain
information.
He awared the first prize in student poster and received an tablet PC as an
additional prize in IEEE OES Internation Symposium UT 2017, Busan, Feb 21-24.
Feb., 7, 2017 Ph.D. Student Jeonghyeon Wang was selected as the winner of the best robot vision paper award in KRoC 2017
A paper entitled "Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes using a Relative
Location Model" was
selected as the winner of an Asian Federation of Computer Vision (AFCV) best
robot vision paper
award in the 12th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC) held in
Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb., 5-8.
Feb., 6, 2017 MORIN Winter Workshop
MORIN had a winter workshop at Phoenix Park, Pyeongchang from Feb. 6 to 8.
With all lab. members presented, we looked back what we have done in 2016 and
discussed about the future works in 2017.
Feb., 3, 2017 Ph.D. Student Seonghun Hong was awarded as an Outstanding Student Paper Award from KSOE 2016
A paper entitled "Image mosaicking using pose-assisted registration for visual
inspection of underwater structures" was awarded as an Outstanding Student Paper
Award from the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Korean Society of Ocean
Engineers
held in Busan, Nov. 17-18, 2016.
2016
Nov., 17, 2016 Master student Dongha Chung was awarded outstanding student paper presentation from KSOE 2016
Master student Dongha Chung was selected as outstanding student paper
presentation award in Conference of The Korean Society of Ocean Engineers held
in Busan, Korea, Nov., 17-19.
Dongha's work entitled "Attitude Control of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle using
Quaternion Feedback" showed methodology to control the underwater vehicle by
using quaternion as state rather than Euler angles to represent the attitude of
underwater vehicle.
The paper presented at May., 15, 2016, in Busan, Korea.
Apr., 13, 2016 Ph.D. Student Jungwook Han was selected as the winner of the third prize award in OCEANS'16 Student Poster Competition
A paper entitled "Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Semi-Submersible
Offshore Platform with an Unmanned Surface Vehicle”
was selected as the winner of the third prize award for outstanding performance
and lasting contribution to the MTS/IEEE OCEANS’16
student poster competition held in Shanghai, China, Apr. 10-13.
Jan., 27, 2016 Ph.D. student Jisung Park was selected as one of Asian Federation of Computer Vision(AFCV) Best Robot Vision Paper Award winners of Korea Robotics Society (KROS) 2016 held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea
Jisung's work entitled "Model-based pose estimation for underwater autonomous
manipulation" showed a new way
for high-precise underwater navigation called model-referenced underwater
navigation of underwater robot in structured underwater
environment. The main idea is that a spatial information with respect to a
structured environment is utilized for enabling the
underwater robot to navigate by minimizing drift error accumulated in the time
arising from sensor biases. For generating the spatial
information 3D model-based tracking, which is computer vision algorithm is
introduced in the proposed navigation algorithm.
Jan., 26, 2016 Master student Minju Kang is awarded Poster Award from KRoC
Master student Minju Kang was selected as one of four Outstanding Student Poster
Award winners of the
11th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference(KRoC 2016) held in Pyeongchang,
Korea, Jan 25-27, 2015.
Minju's work entitled "Dynamic Positioning Control of a Twin-hull Unmanned
Surface Ship" showed a
thrust allocation strategy which can be applied to a dynamically positioned
twin-hull vessel.
Jan., 26, 2016 MORIN Winter Workshop
MORIN had a winter workshop at Phoenix Park, Pyeongchang from Jan. 26 to
28.
With all lab. members presented, we looked back what we have done in 2015 and
discussed about the future works in 2016.
2015
Oct., 22, 2015 Ph.D. Student Jeonghyeon Wang was awarded as an Outstanding Student Paper Award from KSOE
Author of the paper, Jeonghyeon Wang(white shirt)
A paper entitled "Optimization of Fish-Like Locomotion using Reinforcement
Learning" was awarded
as an Outstanding Student Paper Award from the 2015 Regular Conference of the
Korean Society of
Ocean Engineers held in Jeju, May. 21-23, 2015.
Oct., 29, 2015 PhD Student Seonghun Hong was awarded the best paper award from JKROS
A paper entitled “Visual SLAM using Local Bundle Optimization in Unstructured
Seafloor Environment”
was selected the best one of papers published in Journal of Korea Robotics
Society in 2014.
May., 7, 2015 Master Student Sungchur Kwon was awarded outstanding poster award from KRoC 2015
Master student Sungchur Kwon was selected as Outstanding Student Poster Award
winner of the
10th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference(KRoC 2015) held in Daejeon, Korea,
May, 6~8.
2014
Oct., 26, 2014 RobotX Competition 2nd place
We participated in the 2014 Maritime RobotX Challenge competition which was
held from 20th-26th October in 2014 in Marina Bay, Singapore. After a year-long
hard work and a week-long fierce competition, we took the second place with an
award of S$ 16,500 total. You can find many interesting pictures and videos form
the competition.
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May., 23, 2014 Master student Jisung Park was selected as one of five Outstanding Student Paper & Presentation Award winners of the 2014 spring conference of The Korean Society of Ocean Engineering held in Busan, Republic of Korea
Author of the paper, Jisung Park(Right)
Jisung's work entitled "A preliminary study on autonomous object detection and
retrieval in underwater environment"
showed an object recovery task performed by underwater robot. A computer vision
technics was only used for navigation and
object recognition except for any navigation sensors.
Jan., 28, 2014 PhD Student Jungwook Han was awarded Outstanding Paper Award from KSOE
A paper entitled "3D reconstruction of bridge structures by sensor fusion
using a USV" was awarded
Outstanding Student Paper Award from the 2013 Regular Conference of the
Korean Society of Ocean Engineers held in Seoul, Oct. 17-19, 2013.
