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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information

Name: Tae-Yong Choi

Date of Birth: 1977.12. 31

Nationality: Republic of Korea

Gender: Male

Address: Dept. of Robotics and Mechatronics,

Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials,

Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Telephone: +82-42-868-7778

Mobile Phone: +82-10-9897-1245

Email: taeyongc@gmail.com, taeyongc@kimm.re.kr

Education and Employment 3/4/1996-2/19/2003

- B.S. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from POSTECH (http://www.postech.ac.kr/)

3/1/2003-2/1/2010

- Ph.D in electrical and electronic engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

(http://www.kaist.ac.kr/)

2/1/2010-12/31/2010

- Senior Engineer in Samsung Electronics. Co.Ltd (http://www.samsung.com/sec). High speed circuit design and

FPGA logic development for memory tester

1/1/2011~

- Senior Researcher in Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (http://www.kimm.re.kr/). Industrial robot development

and control.

Research Field 1. Machine learning

A. Self-Organizing Fuzzy Controller

B. Genetic Algorithm

C. Pattern Classification – Neural Network

2. Emotional robot

A. Robot emotion implementation.

B. “Friendship “ implementation on Sobot.

3. Robotics

A. Industrial dualarm robot system

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B. Robot actuation using Pneumatic Muscles.

C. Robot kinematics/Dynamics control

D. Robot safety

Research Experience 1. Development of biped robot actuated by pneumatic artificial muscles (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2005.3 ~ 2006.2

2. Research on BRHL (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2005.5 ~ 2008.3

3. Development of Gap/Profile monitoring sensor (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2004.10 ~ 2007.9

4. Development of Gap/Profile monitoring sensor for Remote-Welding Robot (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2007.10 ~ 2009.9

5. Publication of lecture note for “Robot Artificial Life” (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2006.9 ~ 2007.2

6. Physical distribution control modeling tool development (Samsung Electronics fund)

A. Participation period: 2007.3 ~ 2007.9

7. Marketability verification of a mobile robot for researcher and a ASIC chip for sonar sensor (Government

fund)

A. Participation period: 2009.6 ~ 2009.11

8. Development of software algorithm for pattern role patterning (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2009.1 ~ 2009.12

9. Human robot cooperation robot system development (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2011.1 ~ 2011.6

10. Control of serial manipulator actuated by smart actuation module (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2011.5 ~ 2012.10

11. Development of tendon-driven robot to mimic human motion (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2012.1 ~ 2014.12

12. Development of dualarm robot for cellular phone packing and LCD/LED TV assembly (Government fund)

A. Participation period: 2011.1 ~ current

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Figure 1 The developed dual-arm robots

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Figure 2 Cellular phone production line with the developed dual-arm robots

Publication

International Journal [1] Tae-Yong Choi, Kap-Ho Seo, and Ju-Jang Lee, "Modeling of Friendship Capability in the Emotional Model for Sociable

Robots", International Journal of Human-Friendly Welfare Robotic Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 36 - 42, 2005, April

[2] Byung-Gi Jang, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, "Adaptive Occupancy Grid Mapping with Clusters", Journal of Artificial

Life and Robotics, vol. 10, no. 4, 2005, December

[3] Tae-Yong Choi, So-Yeon Park, and Ju-Jang Lee, “A hybrid SOF-PID controller for a MIMO biped robot,” Artificial Life

Robotics, vol.10, no.1, pp.69-72, 2006

[4] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, and Hee-Shin Kang, “Reconfigurable 3D

Laser-stripe Sensor for Welding Processes,” Materials Science Forum, vol.580-582, pp.691-694, 2008

[5] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, and Hee-Shin Kang, “Profile measurement

sensor for robotic welding ,” International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, vol.3, Nos.3/4, 2009

[6] Tae-Yong Choi, Chang-Hyun Kim, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Enhanced safety with joint compliance control of pneumatic muscles,”

International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, vol.3, Nos.3/4, 2010

[7] Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Control of Manipulator Using Pneumatic Muscles for Enhanced Safety,” IEEE

Transaction on Industrial Electronics, vol.57, no.8, pp.2815-2825, 2010

[8] Tae-Yong Choi, Byoung-Suck Choi, and Gap-Ho Seo, “Position and Compliance Control of a Pneumatic Muscle Actuated

Manipulator for Enhanced Safety,” IEEE Transaction on Control Systems Technology, vol.19, no. 4, pp.832-842, 2011

[9] Taeyong Choi, Chanhun Park, Hyunmin Do, Dongil Park, Jinho Kyung, and Gwangjo Chung, “Trajectory Correction based

on Shape Peculiarity in Direct Teaching Manipulator,” International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, vol. 11, no. 5,

pp.1009-1017. 2013.

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[10] Taeyong Choi, Joon-Woo Lee, Doohyung Kim, Hyunmin Do, Dongil Park and Chanhun Park, “Development of redundant

shoulder complex of human-like robot driven by flexible wire tendons,” Electronics Letters, vol. 50, no. 20, pp.1417-1419. 2014.

[11] Taeyong Choi, Hyunmin Do, Dongil Park, Chanhun Park and Jinho Kyung, “Real-time synchronization method in multi-

robot system,” Electronics Letters, vol. 50, no. 24, pp.1824-1826. 2014.

International Conference [1] Kap-Ho Seo, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Adaptive Color Snake Model for Real-Time Object Tracking,” IEEE

conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, pp.122-127, Apr., 2004.

[2] Choel-Taek Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Modeling and Simulation of Active Contour Model for Object Tracking,”

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modeling, Serial.30, Rhodes, Greece, pp.313-

317, Jun., 2004.

[3] Byoung-Gi Jang, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Adaptive Occupancy Grid Mapping with Clusters,” Proceedings of

International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Serial. 10, Beppu, Japan, Jan., 2005.

[4] Tae-Yong Choi, So-Yeon Park, and Ju-Jang Lee, “The Hybrid SOF-PID Controller for a MIMO Biped Robot,” Proceedings of

International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Serial. 10, Beppu, Japan, Jan., 2005.

[5] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Development of Recent Humanoid Robot (Keynote Speech),”

International Workshop on Artificial Life and Robotics, Serial. 1, Kanggaloo, Malaysia, May, 2005.

[6] Tae-Yong Choi, Shanshan Jin, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Implementation of Friendship in the Emotional Model for Familiarity to

Human,” IEEE ISIE 2005, Serial. 47, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 1605-1601, Jun., 2005.

[7] Tae-Yong Choi, Chang-Hyum Kim, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Emotional Model Focused on Robot's Familiarity to Human,” ICCAS,

Serial. 20, Ilsan, Korea, pp. 1025-1030, Jun., 2005.

[8] Tae-Yong Choi, Kap-Ho Seo, Jin-Ho Shin, and Ju-Jang Lee, “The Hybrid SOF-PID Controller for MIMO Nonlinear System,”

Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME, Serial. 10, Monterey, USA, pp. 825-830, Jul., 2005.

[9] Kap-Ho Seo, Changmok Oh, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Bed-type Robotic System for Bedridden,” Proceedings of

the IEEE/ASME, Serial. 10, Monterey, USA, pp. 1170-1174, Jul., 2005.

[10] Tae-Yong Choi, Joon-Yong Lee, Jin-Ho Shin, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Modeling of the Emotional Model with Friendship for

Familiarity of Robot,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Serial. 28, Edmonton, Canada, pp.

2437-2442, Aug., 2005.

[11] Tae-Yong Choi, Joon-Yong Lee, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Control of Artificial Pneumatic Muscle for Robot Application,”

Proceeding of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, Oct., 2006.

[12] Tae-Yong Choi, Shanshan Jin, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Implementation of a Robot Actuated by Artificial Pneumatic Muscles,”

SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006, Pusan, Korea, Oct., 2006.

[13] Tae-Yong Choi, Jeong-Jung Kim, and Ju-Jang Lee, “An Artificial Pneumatic Muscle Control Method on the Limited Space,”

SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006, Pusan, Korea, Oct., 2006.

[14] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, and Hee-Shin Kang, “Development of

Welding Profile Measuring System with Vision Sensor,” Proceeding of the 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors 2006, Daegu,

Korea, pp. 392-395, A4L-A6, Oct., 2006.

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[15] Ju-Jang Lee, Tae-Yong Choi, and Jeong-Jung Kim, “The Hybrid Method for Robot Actuation using Motors and Pneumatic

Muscles,” 2007 International Symposium on Humanized Systems, Muroran, Japan, Sep., 2007.

[16] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, and Hee-Shin Kang, “Reconfigurable 3D

Laser-stripe Sensor for Welding Process,” Proceeding of International Welding/Joining Conference-Korea 2007, COEX, Seoul,

Korea, pp. 373-375(Abs.), FD3-5, May, 2007.

[17] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, and Hee-Shin Kang, “Development of

Welding Pro_le Sensor and Its Application,” Proceeding of International Conference on Smart Manufacturing Application,

KINTEX, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Apr., 2008.

[18] Cheol-Tack Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Byoung-Suk Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Robust Estimation of Sound Direction for Robot

Interface,” Proceeding of the 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, USA, May, 2008.

[19] Tae-Yong Choi, Byoung-Suk Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Manipulator Operation using Joint Stiffness Adjusting by Pneumatic

Muscles,” Proceeding of the Human System Interaction 2008, Krakow, Poland, May, 2008.

[20] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, Hee-Shin Kang, Moon-Yong Lee, and

Sung-rak Kim, “Sensor Guided Laser Welding Robot System,” Proceeding of the IFAC World Congress, COEX, Seoul, Korea,

Jul., 2008.

[21] Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Damage Reduction of Robot at the Emergence Crash by Modifying Stiffness,”

Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, pp. 395-400, DCC, Daejeon, Korea, Jul., 2008.

[22] Chang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, Ju-Jang Lee, Jeong Suh, Kyoung-Taik Park, and Hee-Shin Kang, “Intelligent Vision

Sensor for the Robotic Laser Welding,” Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, pp. 406-411,

DCC, Daejeon, Korea, Jul., 2008.

[23] Tae-Yong Choi, Jeong-Jung Kim, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Study on the Effect of Stiffness Modification at Pneumatic Muscle

Actuated Manipulator,” Proceeding of the SICE Annual Conference 2008, The Univ. Electro-Communication, pp. 2007-2012,

Japan, Aug., 2008.

[24] Jeong-Jung Kim, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Experience Repository based Particle Swarm Optimization and its

Application to Biped Robot Walking,” IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Daejeon, Korea, pp.373-378,

Dec., 2008

[25] Joon-Hong Seok, Tae-Yong Choi, and Ju-Jang Lee, “A Novel Compact Genetic Algorithm using Offspring Survival

Evolutionary Strategy,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Beppu, Japan, Feb., 2009

[26] Tae-Yong Choi, Joon-Hong Seok, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Safe Robot with Artificial Pneumatic Muscle,” Proceeding of the IEEE

International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Seoul, Korea, Jul., 2009.

[27] Tae-Yong Choi, Byoung-Suk Choi, Masanori Sugisake, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Enhanced Manipulator's Safety with Artificial

Pneumatic Muscle,” Proceeding of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St.Louis, USA,

Oct., 2009.

[28] Tae-Yong Choi, Joon-Woo Lee, Kyoung-Taek Park, and Ju-Jang Lee, “Position and Compliance Control of a Manipulator

with Pneumatic Muscles for Enhanced Safety,” Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Bari,

Italy, Jul., 2010

[29] Tae-Yong Choi, Chanhun Park, Hyun-Min Do and Jin-ho Kyung, “Feature based Direct Teaching Trajectory Correction,”

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Proceeding of the International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, Sorrento, Italy, Jun.,

2012

[30] Tae-Yong Choi, Hyun-Min Do, Jin-ho Kyung, Dongil Park and Chanhun Park, “Control of 6DOF Articulated Robot with the

Direct-teaching Function using EtherCAT,” Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive

Communication, Gyeongju, Korea, Aug., 2013

[31] Tae-Yong Choi, Hyunmin Do, Kyung Taik Park, Doohyung Kim and Jinho Kyung, “Small sized industrial dual-arm robot with

convenient program interface,” Proceeding of the International Symposium on Robotics, Seoul, Korea, Oct., 2013

[32] Taeyong Choi, Hyunmin Do, Dongil Park, Chanhun Park and Jinho Kyung, “Synchronization method in the dual robot

system,” Proceeding of the International Conference of Manufacturing Technology Engineers, Jeju, Korea, Oct., 2014

Honors and Awards

1. International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (ISAROB) - Best Paper Award, 2005.2

2. IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN2008) - Best Presentation Paper Award, 2008.7