Prof. Soon-Jo Chung

Open Positions

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

Recent Videos at Iowa State

  • Collision Avoidance Path Planning of Multiple Agile Vehicles in a Highly Constrained Unknown Environment

  • Monocular Vision Based SLAM for Micro Indoor Helicopter in a GPS-Denied Environment

  • Autonomous rover with real-time collision avoidance (path planning and SLAM)


  • Autonomous rover with real-time collision avoidance (video)


  • Bio-inspired control for locomotion


    Keehong Seo, Soon-Jo Chung, and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, "CPG-based Control of a Turtle-like Underwater Vehicle," the Proceedings of the 2008 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference. Video(7Mb)
    The turtle robot in the video was developed by Prof. Michael Triantafyllou and his students at MIT.
  • Nonlinear Control and Synchronization of Precision Formation Flying Spacecraft

Accomplished Results at MIT (with Prof. David W. Miller)


  • Presented one of the first proofs for the synchronization of multiple Lagrangian Systems (with Prof. Slotine). Applications include cooperative robot control and synchronization of robots.arXiv:0711.1709
  • Developed decentralized nonlinear control and synchronization of spatially interconnected systems. (PDF)
  • Reported the first propellant-free underactuated control results for tethered formation Flying spacecraft.(PDF)
  • Developed a new relative sensing mechanism that uses 6-DOF force-torque sensors and rate gyroscopes.
  • Our work on tethered formation flying was introduced in the new book, Dynamics Analysis of Space Tether Missions written by Dr. Eugen Levin.

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

Tethered Formation Flying Satellites


SPHERES Project Website


Videos

Adaptive Reconnaissance Golay-3 Optical Satellite (ARGOS) (PDF)

Project Website

Videos