Robotic Systems & Hardware | Intelligent Robotic Systems Lab (IRSL)

Projects

Ongoing research platforms and integrated systems.

Project

SAM2

Enabling cable-suspended aerial manipulators to maneuver through high-altitude workspaces and physically interact with their environment.

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Publications

Selected research presented through papers, experiments, and demonstrations.

2025

Mechatronics

A Visco-Elastic Actuator with Linear Gas Spring and Variable Damping

Florian C. Loeffl, Fabian Beck, Jinoh Lee, Min Jun Kim, and Manuel Keppler

Mechatronics, 2025

Bib HTML

@article{loeffl2025visco,
  research_area = {hardware_design},
  title = {{A Visco-Elastic Actuator with Linear Gas Spring and Variable Damping}},
  author = {Loeffl, Florian C. and Beck, Fabian and Lee, Jinoh and Kim, Min Jun and Keppler, Manuel},
  journal = {Mechatronics},
  year = {2025},
}

2024

IROS

Design of a Fully Actuated Drone with Non-Isotropic Wrench Shape

Seongsu Park and Min Jun Kim

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024

Bib HTML Video

@inproceedings{park2024design,
  research_area = {hardware_design},
  title = {{Design of a Fully Actuated Drone with Non-Isotropic Wrench Shape}},
  author = {Park, Seongsu and Kim, Min Jun},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2024},
}

2019

ICRA

Development of SAM: cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator

Yuri S. Sarkisov^*, Min Jun Kim^*, Davide Bicego, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Christian Ott, Antonio Franchi, and Konstantin Kondak

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{sarkisov2019development,
  research_area = {hardware_design},
  title = {{Development of SAM: cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator}},
  author = {Sarkisov, Yuri S. and Kim, Min Jun and Bicego, Davide and Tsetserukou, Dzmitry and Ott, Christian and Franchi, Antonio and Kondak, Konstantin},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2019},
}