Earlier milestones from RCI Lab.

RCI Lab began a humanoid simulation research project with the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials.

RCI Lab completed a technology transfer agreement with MetaMotionX.

MPPI and RPP autonomous-navigation software for rough-terrain driving

RCI Lab received a Gyeonggi RISE Center research grant.

Off-road autonomous-driving software development, 2025–2026

RCI Lab began a Dual Steering AGV control project with T-ROBOTICS.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim received the JMST Outstanding Contribution Award.

The Robros IGRIS-C humanoid robot arrived at RCI Lab.

Taehyun Jung received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Undergraduate Research Festival.

ROS2-Based Dynamic Costmap Extension and Real-Time Avoidance Navigation in Radiation Environments

RCI Lab received the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award at the 2025 Industry–Academia Project Challenge.

RCI Lab transferred RGB–LiDAR segmentation software to MetaMotionX.

RCI Lab joined a Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy project on a lightweight high-DOF humanoid robot hand.

Two papers on rough-terrain navigation and high-fidelity simulation were accepted to the Transactions of the KSME A.

The Unitree H1-2 full-size humanoid robot arrived at RCI Lab.

RCI Lab joined KIRIA’s humanoid robot demonstration program.

RCI Lab began a quadruped autonomous-navigation project with PonyLink.

RCI Lab signed an autonomous-mobility research MOU with PonyLink and Inha University.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim was appointed an Associate Editor for ICRA 2026.

RCI Lab began a mobile humanoid control project with T-ROBOTICS.

RCI Lab celebrated its first M.S. graduates: Hakjun Kim, Joonyeol Yang, and Seunghyun Lee.

RCI Lab began developing an LLM-based task generator for autonomous experiments with KailosLab.

RCI Lab received a Kyung Hee University grant for RGB–LiDAR 2.5D autonomous navigation.

CSC-MPPI was accepted to IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025.

Leesai Park, Keunwoo Jang, and Sanghyun Kim

RCI Lab held its spring-semester membership training event.

RCI Lab joined the National Robot Test Field project on virtualized device verification for digital twins.

RCI Lab joined the Global TOP Strategic Research Group for self-evolving AI humanoids.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim received a second JMST Outstanding Contribution Award.

RCI Lab held an event to commemorate Teacher’s Day.

Eunae Kang was selected as a principal investigator for the WISET Women in Engineering Graduate Research Team Program.

RCI Lab began a bridge-inspection robot simulator project with KICT.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim was featured by iRobotNews as a young robotics engineer.

RCI Lab received KBSI infrastructure support for human-centered humanoid robotics.

Hybrid A*-guided MPPI for rough-terrain navigation was accepted to Mathematics.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim was appointed an Associate Editor for IROS 2025.

Eunae Kang and Jiho Hong presented vision-language navigation research at KROC 2025.

A paper on sparse identification for online object-parameter estimation was accepted to JMST.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim joined the organizing committee for Humanoids 2025.

RCI Lab began an autonomous path-generation software project with FunctionBay.

RCI Lab joined a KHNP project on radiation- and heat-resistant emergency-response robots.

RCI Lab joined TIPA’s AI-robotics project for self-evolving next-generation material development.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim was appointed an adjunct researcher at AICT.

Bohyeong Pak received an Outstanding Poster Award at the Undergraduate Research Festival.

A paper on MPPI-based whole-body control of a hybrid cable-driven robot was accepted to the Transactions of the KSME A.

Minhyeong Kang, Leesai Park, Seulchan Lee, Jiho Hong, and Jaerak Son joined RCI Lab.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim presented recent RCI Lab research at Sookmyung Women’s University.

RCI Lab presented work on hybrid cable-driven robots and open-vocabulary semantic mapping at the KSME Annual Meeting.

RCI Lab transferred ROS2 traversability-estimation and autonomous-navigation technology to PIT-IN.

RCI Lab began an outdoor mobile-robot local path-planning project with HL Mando.

Object-Aware Impedance Control was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

Hakjun Kim received the Best Poster Award at ACMD 2024.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim met with Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar and Prof. Jongwoo Park for research collaboration.

Eunae Kang and Jiwon Yoon joined RCI Lab.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim was appointed an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025.

RCI Lab joined an NRF Basic Research Laboratory on robot shared control for an aging society.

RCI Lab joined an NRF STEAM project on humanoid avatar robots with multisensory interfaces.

Two RCI Lab papers were presented at ACMD 2024.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim began serving as an Associate Editor for JMST.

RCI Lab filed a patent on whole-body control of a hybrid cable-driven robot with a manipulator.

Whole-body Control of Redundant Hybrid Cable-Driven Robot with Manipulator was accepted to Nonlinear Dynamics.

RCI Lab registered lunar-rover autonomous-driving simulation software.

RCI Lab developed traversability estimation for outdoor patrol robots with HL Mando.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim visited Stanford University for research collaboration with Prof. Oussama Khatib.

RCI Lab began an autonomous battery-swapping robot project supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups.

RCI Lab began bridge-inspection robot control-system development with KICT.

RCI Lab joined national projects in avatar robotics and robot digital-twin platforms.

RCI Lab began industry projects on battery-swap AGVs, connector manipulation, and 2.5D navigation.

Nonlinear Identification of Unknown Object Dynamics was presented at UR 2024.

Leesai Park and Minhyeong Kang were selected for a six-week collaboration visit to IHMC.

Online Multi-Contact Receding Horizon Planning via Value Function Approximation was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

RCI Lab transferred deep-reinforcement-learning-based humanoid gripper manipulation technology to Robros.

RCI Lab filed a patent on a LiDAR-based mobile-robot docking system.

A UWB localization filtering study was accepted to Sensors.

Prof. Sanghyun Kim was appointed an Associate Editor for IROS 2024.

A mobile-manipulator laser-welding automation paper was accepted to Applied Sciences.

RCI Lab joined a national demonstration project for remanufactured-battery subscription services.

RCI Lab received LINC 3.0 prototype support for a multi-object humanoid gripper.

Suhwan Park joined RCI Lab as an integrated M.S./Ph.D. student.

RCI Lab joined the NRF Planet-ex project for persistent autonomous exploration with heterogeneous robot teams.

A dual-arm wiring-harness path-planning paper was accepted to IEEE Access.

RCI Lab began developing topology-based work-sequence software for LNG cargo tanks with KIMM.

RCI Lab went on a hiking trip to Cheonggyesan Mountain.

RCI Lab received an NRF grant for robot–robot and human–robot collaborative transport.

RCI Lab began KIMM projects on cable-system master control and HRI-based collision-safety software.

Weighted Hierarchical Quadratic Programming received the 2023 Intelligent Service Robotics Best Paper Award, second place.

Motion Planning of Mobile Manipulator for Navigation Including Door Traversal was accepted to IEEE RA-L.

Fusing Camera Perception and LiDAR Mapping for Improved Semantic Map was accepted to IAS 2023.

RCI Lab transferred ROS2 autonomous-mobile-robot operation technology to Rotal.

RCI Lab transferred ROS1 mecanum-wheel autonomous-navigation technology to Wonik Robotics.