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2025

Exo-Glove Pinch: Soft Hand-wearable Robot Designed through the Analysis of the Constrained Tendon Routing
Exo-Glove Pinch: Soft Hand-wearable Robot Designed through the Analysis of the Constrained Tendon Routing
Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, and Kyu-Jin Cho
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Position and Force Constraints in Underactuated Tendon-Driven Systems
Position and Force Constraints in Underactuated Tendon-Driven Systems
Byungchul Kim*, Useok Jeong, Kyu-Jin Cho
ICRA 2025 Workshop on Mechanisms in Robot Manipulation
Generative-AI-Driven Jumping Robot Design Using Diffusion Models
Generative-AI-Driven Jumping Robot Design Using Diffusion Models
Byungchul Kim*, Tsun-Hsuan Wang*, Daniela Rus
ICRA 2025
Exo-Glove Poly III: Grasp Assistance by Modulating Thumb and Finger Motion Sequence with a Single Actuator,
Exo-Glove Poly III: Grasp Assistance by Modulating Thumb and Finger Motion Sequence with a Single Actuator,
Kyu Bum Kim, Hyungmin Choi, Byungchul Kim, Brian Byunghyun Kang, Sangheui Cheon, and Kyu-Jin Cho
Soft Robotics
Exo-Glove Shell: A Hybrid Exo-Glove for the Thumb Opposition with an Under-Actuated Tendon-Driven System,
Exo-Glove Shell: A Hybrid Exo-Glove for the Thumb Opposition with an Under-Actuated Tendon-Driven System,
Byungchul Kim, Hyungmin Choi, Kyubum Kim, Sejin Jeong, and Kyu-Jin Cho
Soft Robotics
Dual-Tendon Routing: Tendon Routing for Under-actuated Tendon-Driven Soft Hand-wearable Robot
Dual-Tendon Routing: Tendon Routing for Under-actuated Tendon-Driven Soft Hand-wearable Robot
Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, and Kyu-Jin Cho
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

2024

Underactuated Robotic Gripper with Fiber-Optic Force Sensing Tendons
Underactuated Robotic Gripper with Fiber-Optic Force Sensing Tendons
Jaehyun Lee, Byungchul Kim, Kyu-Jin Cho, and Yong-Lae Park
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Strong Compliant Grasps Using a Cable-Driven Soft Gripper
Strong Compliant Grasps Using a Cable-Driven Soft Gripper
Gregory Xie, Lillian Chin, Byungchul Kim, Rachel Holladay, and Daniela Rus
2024 IROS

2023

Diffusebot: Breeding soft robots with physics-augmented generative diffusion models
Diffusebot: Breeding soft robots with physics-augmented generative diffusion models
Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Juntian Zheng, Pingchuan Ma, Yilun Du, Byungchul Kim, Andrew Everett Spielberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan, and Daniela Rus
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024, Oral presentation
Laser-Etching Flexible Sensors for Robotic Touch Recognition
Laser-Etching Flexible Sensors for Robotic Touch Recognition
Cedric Honnet, Yunyi Zhu, Martin Nisser, Chao Liu, Byungchul Kim, Jae Hun Seol, Jongho Lee, Daniela Rus, and Stefanie Mueller
2023 ICRA (late braking results)

2022

Building Simple Yet Competent Soft-Rigid Hybrid Hand Wearable Robots
Building Simple Yet Competent Soft-Rigid Hybrid Hand Wearable Robots
Byungchul Kim and Kyu-Jin Cho
2022 Bio & Bio Workshop

2021

Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator with Under-actuation and Fast-connection for Soft Wearable Robots
Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator with Under-actuation and Fast-connection for Soft Wearable Robots
Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, Brian Byunghyun Kang, and Kyu-Jin Cho
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator with Under-actuation and Fast-connection for Soft Wearable Robots (presentation only)
Slider-Tendon Linear Actuator with Under-actuation and Fast-connection for Soft Wearable Robots (presentation only)
Byungchul Kim, Useok Jeong, Brian Byunghyun Kang, and Kyu-Jin Cho
International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (presentation only)

2020

Joint Angle Estimation of a Tendon-Driven Soft Wearable Robot through a Tension and Stroke Measurement,
Joint Angle Estimation of a Tendon-Driven Soft Wearable Robot through a Tension and Stroke Measurement,
Byungchul Kim, Jiwon Ryu, and Kyu-Jin Cho
Sensors

2017

Development and assessment of a hand assist device: GRIPIT
Development and assessment of a hand assist device: GRIPIT
Byungchul Kim, Hyunki In, Daeyoung Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

In preparation

Genesis: A Generative and Universal Physics Engine for Robotics and Beyond,
Genesis: A Generative and Universal Physics Engine for Robotics and Beyond,
Zhou Xian, Yiling Qiao, […] Byungchul Kim, […] and Chuang Gan (among 51 authors)