Ph.D. Candidate at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, and a member of the Urban Robotics Lab led by Prof. Hyun Myung. My current research interests lie in autonomous navigation for legged robots, focusing on developing motion and path planning, decision-making, and the interplay between SLAM and navigation algorithms for long-term field robotics applications.

Education

Ph.D.

Department of Electrical Engineering

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

Sep. 2023 - present

M.S.

Robotics Program

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2023

B.S.

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Seoul (UOS), South Korea

Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2021

Research Experience

Research Intern

Urban Robotics Lab, KAIST, South Korea

Feb.2021 - Aug.2021

Research Intern

Artificial Intelligence Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea

Jan.2021 - Feb.2021

Research Intern

Software Maestro 11th, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), South Korea

Jun.2020 - Dec.2020

Research Highlights

TRG-Planner: Traversal Risk Graph-Based Path Planning in Unstructured Environments for Safe and Efficient Navigation

Dongkyu Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Minho Oh, Byeongho Yu, and Hyun Myung

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025

Paper Project

DreamFLEX: Learning Fault-Aware Quadrupedal Locomotion Controller for Anomaly Situation in Rough Terrains

Seunghyun Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Dongkyu Lee, Byeongho Yu, Minho Oh, and Hyun Myung

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

Project

DreamWaQ++: Obstacle-aware Quadrupedal Locomotion with Resilient Multi-modal Reinforcement Learning

I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Byeongho Yu, Minho Oh, Dongkyu Lee, Seunghyun Lee, Hyeonwoo Lee, Hyungtae Lim, and Hyun Myung

under review

Paper Project

TRIP: Terrain Traversability Mapping With Risk-Aware Prediction for Enhanced Online Quadrupedal Robot Navigation

Minho Oh, Byeongho Yu, I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Seoyeon Jang, Hyeonwoo Lee, Dongkyu Lee, Seungjae Lee, Yeeun Kim, Marsim Kevin Christiansen, Hyungtae Lim, Hyun Myung

under review

Paper

Awards

Competition Website

Autonomous Quadrupedal Robot Challenge in ICRA 2023, London, UK

Winner (1st Place)

Team DreamSTEP of KAIST

Role: Safe path planning using TRG-planner

Competition Website

Autonomous Quadrupedal Robot Challenge in ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan

2nd Place

Team DreamTRIP of KAIST

Role: Safe path planning using TRG-planner

Announcement

KROC 2024 RED Show

Best Work Award

Development of various gait pattern locomotion for quadruped robots using deep reinforcement learning

Other Publications

B-TMS: Bayesian Traversable Terrain Modeling and Segmentation Across 3D LiDAR Scans and Maps for Enhanced Off-Road Navigation

Minho Oh, Gunhee Shin, Seoyeon Jang, Seungjae Lee, Dongkyu Lee, Wonho Song, Byeongho Yu, Hyungtae Lim, Jaeyoung Lee, Hyun Myung

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2024
M-BRIC: design of mass-driven bi-rotor with RL-based intelligent controller

Dongkyu Lee, EungChang Mason Lee, Duckyu Choi, Junho Choi, Christian Tirtawardhana, Hyun Myung

International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2022
FARO-Tracker: Fast and robust target tracking system for UAVs in urban environment

Dongkyu Lee, EungChang Mason Lee, Hyungtae Lim, Seungwon Song, Hyun Myung

International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), 2022
Ceo-mlcpp: Control-efficient and obstacle-aware multi-layer coverage path planner for 3d reconstruction with uavs

Eungchang Mason Lee, Sungwook Jung, Seungwon Song, Duckyu Choi, Dongkyu Lee, Seunghyun Lee, Seoktae Kim, Hyun Myung

International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), 2022