Prof. Soon-Jo Chung

Open Positions

Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to contact Prof. Chung for ongoing research projects.

Current Research Projects

  • Robot swarms and space robotics
  • Flapping Flying Micro Aerial Vehicles
  • Nonlinear Control and Synchronization of Precision Formation Flying Spacecraft
  • Formation flying UAV helicopters
  • Vision-Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), jointly with Prof. Arun Somani
  • Autonomous and Semi-autonomous control of multiple heterogeneous UAVs
    jointly with Prof. James Oliver. Project Website.
  • Robot locomotion for space exploration
  • Bio-inspired control for locomotion (in collaboration with Dr. K. Seo and Prof. J.J.E Slotine)

Prior Research Projects at MIT

New Experimental Videos Taken at NASA MSFC 9/25/2006-9/29/2006

available HERE

Research Interests (Current and Past)

Cooperative Control and Synchronization of Multi-Agent Systems, Formation Flying
Publications



  • Soon-Jo Chung, and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, "Cooperative Robot Control and Concurrent Synchronization of Lagrangian Systems," submitted.
  • Soon-Jo Chung, and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, "Cooperative Robot Control and Synchronization of Lagrangian Systems," 2007 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • Soon-Jo Chung, Umair Ahsun, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, and David W. Miller, "Application of Synchronization to Cooperative Control and Formation Flight of Aerospace Vehicles," to apear, AIAA GNC 2007.

Tethered Formation Flying Satellites


SPHERES Project Website


Videos

Publications
  • S-J Chung and DW Miller, "Propellant-Free Control of Spinning Tethered Formation Flight Part 1: Linear Control and Experimentation," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, submitted.
  • S-J Chung, JJE Slotine, and DW Miller, "Propellant-Free Control of Spinning Tethered Formation Flight Part 2: Nonlinear Underactuated Control," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, submitted.
  • Soon-Jo Chung, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, and David W. Miller, "New Control Strategies for Underactuated Tethered Formation Flight Spacecraft," to apear, AIAA GNC 2007.
  • Soon-Jo Chung, "Nonlinear Model Reduction and Decentralized Control of Tethered Formation Flight by Oscillation Synchronization," 2006 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, August 2006. (PDF)
    Finalist, Best Graduate Student Paper Competition
  • Soon-Jo Chung, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, and David W. Miller, "Nonlinear Model Reduction and Decentralized Control of Tethered Formation Flight," AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2007. (PDF)
  • Soon-Jo Chung, Danielle Adams, David W. Miller, Enrico Lorenzini, and David Leisawitz, "SPHERES Tethered Formation Flight Testbed: Advancements in Enabling NASA's SPECS Mission," Proceedings of Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2006 Conference,SPIE Paper # 6268-11 (PDF)
  • Soon-Jo Chung, Edmund M. Kong, and David W. Miller, "SPHERES Tethered Formation Flight Testbed: Application to NASA's SPECS Mission," SPIE 5899-22, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes: Innovative Technologies and Concepts II conference, San Diego, CA, August 2005.
  • Soon-Jo Chung, Edmund M. Kong, and David W. Miller, "Dynamics and Control of Tethered Formation Flight Spacecraft Using the SPHERES Testbed," 2005 AIAA GNC, San Francisco, August 2005. (PDF)

Adaptive Reconnaissance Golay-3 Optical Satellite (ARGOS)

Project Website

Videos

Publications
  • Soon-Jo Chung , David W. Miller, and Olivier L. de Weck, "ARGOS Testbed: Study of Multidisciplinary Challenges of Future Spaceborne Interferometric Arrays," Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, No.9, September 2004. (PDF)
  • S-J. Chung, D. Lobosco, D W. Miller and C. Blaurock, "Multidisciplinary Control of a Sparse Aperture Interferometer Satellite," 2003 AIAA GNC, Austin, Texas, August 2003.
  • Soon-Jo Chung and David W. Miller, "Design, Implementation and Control of a Sparse Aperture Imaging Satellite," Master of Science Thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, August 2002. (Download from SSL website)
  • Soon-Jo Chung and David W. Miller, "Design, Implementation and Operation of a Sparse Aperture Imaging Satellite Testbed," 16th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, August 2002. (PDF)
  • Soon-Jo Chung, David W. Miller, and Olivier L. de Weck, "Design and Implementation of Sparse Aperture Imaging Systems", Proceedings of SPIE 4849-25, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference, Waikoloa, Hawaii, August 2002. (PDF)

Integrated modeling for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
GSMT and TMT Website
Presentation
Real-time Simulation Tools of Integrated Model and Control for GSMT (PDF)

Integrated modeling for the NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)
Project Website
Publications

  • D. Lobosco, C. Blaurock, S.-J. Chung, D.W. Miller, "Integrated modeling of optical performance for the Terrestrial Planet Finder structurally connected interferometer," SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference, 21-25 June 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom. (PDF)

Integrated Modeling Toolbox- Disturbances-Optics-Controls-Structures(DOCS)
DOCS Website