Jeeseop Kim

2025

Design and Control of the Humanoid Robot ACHILLES: Real-Time Gait Generation for Dynamic Locomotion
Adrian B. Ghansah, Jeeseop Kim, and Aaron D. Ames
Ongoing
[VIDEO]
Safety-Critical and Distributed Nonlinear Predictive Controllers for Teams of Quadrupedal Robots
Basit M. Imran, Jeeseop Kim, Taizoon A. Chunawala, Alexander Leonessa, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
Under Review
[VIDEO] [ARXIV]
Hybrid Data-Driven Predictive Control for Robust and Reactive Exoskeleton Locomotion Synthesis
Kejun Li, Jeeseop Kim, Maxime Brunet, Marine Petriaux, and Aaron D. Ames
Under Review
[VIDEO]
Robust Adaptive Safe Robotic Grasping with Tactile Sensing
Yitaek Kim, Jeeseop Kim, Albert Hao Li, Aaron D. Ames, and Christoffer Sloth
Accepted to Appear (ECC25)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV]
Minimizing Conservatism in Safety-Critical Control for Input-Delayed Systems via Adaptive Delay Estimation
Yitaek Kim, Ersin Das, Jeeseop Kim, Aaron D. Ames, Joel Burdick, and Christoffer Sloth
Accepted to Appear (ECC25)
[ARXIV]
Safety-critical Locomotion of Biped Robots in Infeasible Paths: Overcoming Obstacles during Navigation toward Destination
Jaemin Lee, Min Dai, Jeeseop Kim, and Aaron D. Ames
Accepted to Appear (ICRA 2025)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV]
A Distributed Layered Planning and Control Algorithm for Teams of Quadrupedal Robots: An Obstacle-Aware Nonlinear MPC Approach
Basit M. Imran, Randall T. Fawcett, Jeeseop Kim, Alexander Leonessa, Kaveh Akbari Hamed
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
[VIDEO] [DOI]

2024

Dynamic Walking on Highly Underactuated Point Foot Humanoids: Closing the Loop between HZD and HLIP
Adrian B. Ghansah, Jeeseop Kim, Kejun Li, and Aaron D. Ames
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Safety-critical Autonomous Inspection of Distillation Columns using Quadrupedal Robots Equipped with Roller Arms
Jaemin Lee, Jeeseop Kim, and Aaron D. Ames
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Data-Driven Predictive Control for Robust Exoskeleton Locomotion
Kejun Li, Jeeseop Kim, Xiaobin Xiong, Kaveh Akbari Hamed, Yisong Yue, and Aaron D. Ames
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
A Data-driven Method for Safety-critical Control: Designing Control Barrier Functions from State Constraints
Jaemin Lee, Jeeseop Kim, and Aaron D. Ames
2024 American Control Conference (ACC)
[ARXIV] [DOI]
Robust Safety-Critical Control for Input-Delayed System with Delay Estimation
Yitaek Kim, Jeeseop Kim, Aaron D. Ames, and Christoffer Sloth
2024 European Control Conference (ECC)
[DOI]
Safety-Critical Coordination of Legged Robots via Layered Controllers and Forward Reachable Set based Control Barrier Functions
Jeeseop Kim, Jaemin Lee, and Aaron D. Ames
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Safety-critical Control of Quadrupedal Robots with Rolling Arms for Autonomous Inspection of Complex Environments
Jaemin Lee, Jeeseop Kim, Wyatt Ubellacker, Tamas G. Molnar, and Aaron D. Ames
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]

2023

Humanoid Robot Co-Design: Coupling Hardware Design with Gait Generation via Hybrid Zero Dynamics
Adrian B. Ghansah, Jeeseop Kim, Maegan Tucker, and Aaron D. Ames
2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Hierarchical Relaxation of Safety-critical Controllers: Mitigating Contradictory Safety Conditions with Application to Quadruped Robots
Jaemin Lee, Jeeseop Kim, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Safety-Critical Coordination for Cooperative Legged Locomotion via Control Barrier Functions
Jeeseop Kim, Jaemin Lee, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Layered Control for Cooperative Locomotion of Two Quadrupedal Robots: Centralized and Distributed Approaches
Jeeseop Kim, Randall T. Fawcett, Vinay R. Kamidi, Aaron D. Ames, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]
Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion
(2023 IEEE ICRA Outstanding Paper Award)
Randall T. Fawcett, Leila Amanzadeh, Jeeseop Kim, Aaron D. Ames, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]

2022

Thesis

Collaborative Locomotion of Quadrupedal Robots: From Centralized Predictive Control to Distributed Control
Jeeseop Kim
Virginia Tech
[LINK]
Distributed quadratic programming-based nonlinear controllers for periodic gaits on legged robots
Vinay R. Kamidi, Jeeseop Kim, Randall T. Fawcett, Aaron Ames, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
IEEE Control Systems Letters
[VIDEO] [DOI]
Cooperative locomotion via supervisory predictive control and distributed nonlinear controllers
Jeeseop Kim, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
[VIDEO] [DOI]

2021

Real-time planning and nonlinear control for quadrupedal locomotion with articulated tails
(ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Division Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award)
Randall T. Fawcett, Abhishek Pandala, Jeeseop Kim, and Kaveh Akbari Hamed
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
[VIDEO] [DOI]

2020

Quadrupedal locomotion via event-based predictive control and QP-based virtual constraints
Kaveh Akbari Hamed, Jeeseop Kim, and Abhishek Pandala
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
[VIDEO] [ARXIV] [DOI]

2017

Thesis

Improvement of Humanoid Gait Control using Actuator Deformation Model
Jeeseop Kim
Seoul National University
[LINK]
Application of robot manipulator for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Jaesug Jung, Jeeseop Kim, Sanghyun Kim, Woon Yong Kwon, Sang Hoon Na, Kyung Su Kim, Gil Joon Suh, Byeong Wook Yoo, Jin Woo Choi, Jung Chan Lee and others
2016 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics
[VIDEO] [DOI]

2016

Improvement of humanoid walking control by compensating actuator elasticity
Jeeseop Kim, Mingon Kim, and Jaeheung Park
IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
[VIDEO] [DOI]

Theses

  1. J. Kim., “Collaborative Locomotion of Quadrupedal Robots: From Centralized Predictive Control to Distributed Control”, Doctoral Dessertation, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Virginia, August 2022.
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  2. J. Kim., “Improvement of Humanoid Gait Control using Actuator Deformation Model”, Master Thesis, Dept. of Transdisciplinary Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, February 2017.
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