activity
20242026
most citedSafety-Ensured Robotic Control Framework for Cutting Task Automation in Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

2 citations · 2 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

10 papers

cs.RO2026

Manipulation via Force Distribution at Contact

Haegu Lee, Yitaek Kim, Casper Hewson Rask +1

Efficient and robust trajectories play a crucial role in contact-rich manipulation, which demands accurate mod- eling of object-robot interactions. Many existing approaches rely on…

cs.RO2025

Tac2Motion: Contact-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Tactile Feedback for Robotic Hand Manipulation

Yitaek Kim, Casper Hewson Rask, Christoffer Sloth

This paper proposes Tac2Motion, a contact-aware reinforcement learning framework to facilitate the learning of contact-rich in-hand manipulation tasks, such as removing a lid. To t…

eess.SY2025

Towards Data-Driven Model-Free Safety-Critical Control

Zhe Shen, Yitaek Kim, Christoffer Sloth

This paper presents a framework for enabling safe velocity control of general robotic systems using data-driven model-free Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). Model-free CBFs rely on…

cs.RO2025

Robust Adaptive Time-Varying Control Barrier Function with Application to Robotic Surface Treatment

Yitaek Kim, Christoffer Sloth

Set invariance techniques such as control barrier functions (CBFs) can be used to enforce time-varying constraints such as keeping a safe distance from dynamic objects. However, ex…

cs.RO2025

Imitation Learning-Based Path Generation for the Complex Assembly of Deformable Objects

Yitaek Kim, Christoffer Sloth

This paper investigates how learning can be used to ease the design of high-quality paths for the assembly of deformable objects. Object dynamics plays an important role when manip…

cs.RO2025

Trajectory Optimization for In-Hand Manipulation with Tactile Force Control

Haegu Lee, Yitaek Kim, Victor Melbye Staven +1

The strength of the human hand lies in its ability to manipulate small objects precisely and robustly. In contrast, simple robotic grippers have low dexterity and fail to handle sm…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

Safety-Ensured Robotic Control Framework for Cutting Task Automation in Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Yitaek Kim, Iñigo Iturrate, Christoffer Sloth +1

There is growing interest in automating surgical tasks using robotic systems, such as endoscopy for treating gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. However, previous studies have primarily…

eess.SY2024

Minimizing Conservatism in Safety-Critical Control for Input-Delayed Systems via Adaptive Delay Estimation

Yitaek Kim, Ersin Das, Jeeseop Kim +3

Input delays affect systems such as teleoperation and wirelessly autonomous connected vehicles, and may lead to safety violations. One promising way to ensure safety in the presenc…

cs.RO2024

Robust Adaptive Safe Robotic Grasping with Tactile Sensing

Yitaek Kim, Jeeseop Kim, Albert H. Li +2

Robotic grasping requires safe force interaction to prevent a grasped object from being damaged or slipping out of the hand. In this vein, this paper proposes an integrated framewo…

cs.RO2024

Fixture calibration with guaranteed bounds from a few correspondence-free surface points

Rasmus Laurvig Haugaard, Yitaek Kim, Thorbjørn Mosekjær Iversen

Calibration of fixtures in robotic work cells is essential but also time consuming and error-prone, and poor calibration can easily lead to wasted debugging time in downstream task…