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    Urban Robotics Lab.

    Robotics for Smart Cities: Our lab focuses on the research and development of Robotics Technologies for Smart Cities.

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  • Welcome to
    Urban Robotics Lab.

    Robotics for Smart Cities: Our lab focuses on the research and development of Robotics Technologies for Smart Cities.

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  • Future Robotics

    Robots that will make our lives better!

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  • Simultaneous Localization & Mapping

    Accurate localization and mapping for seamless robot navigation.

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  • Autonomous Navigation for Various Robots

    Our lab develops autonomous navigation for various robot platforms
    (DreamWaQ and CAROS-H featured in CNN)

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Simultaneous Localization & Mapping

Accurate localization and mapping for seamless robot navigation.

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Machine Learning & AI

New possibilities with Neural Networks.

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Future Robotics

Robots that will make our lives better.

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Recent Announcement

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[2026 Early Spring] Intern Recruiting

[KOR] 명현 교수님 연구실에서 봄 조기 인턴을 모집합니다. 인턴 기간: 2026년 1월 - 6월 (6개월) 지원 자격: 학부 재학생 (자대/타대 무관)모집 인원: 2명신청 기한: 12/31 까지지원 방법: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KJUCnsnbzOPxyD6eO0a36LoNmNiIR4ovGaK_LKD7gks/edit?tab=t.0의 [지원 링크] 를 통해 구글폼 작성                   KAIST URL(전기 및 전자공학부 명현 교수님)에서 25년 겨울~26년 봄 함께할 학부 인턴을 모집합니다.학부 인턴은 연구실 내에서 진행되고 있는 프로젝트에 배정되어 활동을 하게 될 예정입니다.저희 연구실로 박사 및 석사과정 진학을 희망하신다면, 인턴 활동을 먼저 경험하시길 권장합니다.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr ===================== [ENG] 2025 Winter-Spring Semester Intern Recruiting in Urban Robotics Lab. Period of activity: 2026 January ~ JuneQualification: UndergraduateNumbers: 2 membersApplication Deadline: ~12/31 (Wed)How to apply: Please write an application through the google form https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KJUCnsnbzOPxyD6eO0a36LoNmNiIR4ovGaK_LKD7gks/edit?tab=t.0KAIST Urban Robotics Lab is recruiting undergraduate interns to join us in the Winter~Summer.Undergraduate internships will be conducted in a way that interns will be assigned to one of the Lab projects.If you want to go on to a doctor or master's candidates in our lab, we recommend that you experience the internship first.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr
Dec,16,2025

ICCAS 2025 Best Paper Award

Ph.D. candidate Sungjae Shin, Master candidates Wanhee Kim, and Jinsung Choi from Prof. Hyun Myung’s laboratory in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST has achieved an outstanding accomplishment by receiving the Best Paper Award at the 25th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS 2025), organized by the Institute of Control, Robotics, and Systems (ICROS). This year’s conference, held in Incheon Sondo ConvensiA during Nov. 4 – 7, featured 800 participants and 487 presented papers, among which five were selected for the Outstanding Paper Award Finalist. Among these, only one paper was ultimately honored with the Best Paper Award. 〈Illustration of the proposed system “GSDB”〉 The award-winning paper, titled “GSDB: A Lightweight Database for Gaussian Splatting Map-based Visual Localization Leveraging Edge-aware and Quality-guided View Filtering,” introduces a novel lightweight database construction framework that achieves over 90% size reduction by applying edge-aware and quality-guided view filtering to the learned Gaussian Splatting map. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach maintains localization accuracy while significantly improving estimation speed compared with conventional approaches. 명현 교수 연구실 신성재 박사과정, 김완희, 최진성 석사과정이 2025년 제어로봇시스템학회(ICROS)에서 주최하는 국제학술대회 ICCAS 2025에서 최우수논문상을 수상하는 성과를 거두었습니다. 인천 송도 컨벤시아에서 11/4~7에 개최된 이번 국제학술대회에는 31개국에서 800여명이 참가하고, 총 487편의 논문이 발표되었으며, 이 중 우수논문상 Finalist로 5편이 선정되었고, 그 중 1편이 최우수논문상(Best Paper Award)으로 최종 선정되었습니다. 수상 논문은 “GSDB: A Lightweight Database for Gaussian Splatting Map-based Visual Localization Leveraging Edge-aware and Quality-guided View Filtering”로, 학습된 Gaussian Splatting 지도로부터 엣지 인식·품질 유도 뷰 선별을 통해 약 90% 이상 경량화된 데이터베이스를 구축하고, 정확도는 유지하면서 추정 속도는 기존 대비 대폭 향상됨을 실험으로 입증한 연구입니다. Source: KAIST EE, Robot News
Nov,14,2025

[2025 Winter-Spring] Intern Recruiting (expired)

[KOR] 명현 교수님 연구실에서 겨울-봄 인턴을 모집합니다. 인턴 기간: 2026년 1월 - 6월 (6개월) 지원 자격: 학부 재학생 (자대/타대 무관)모집 인원: 5명신청 기한: 11/26 까지지원 방법: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X3cMW7CSoP2Y5JAcdeeBF4bvfKw9gm6yLVG8dgGV8mo/edit?usp=sharing의 [지원 링크] 를 통해 구글폼 작성                   KAIST URL(전기 및 전자공학부 명현 교수님)에서 25년 겨울~26년 봄 함께할 학부 인턴을 모집합니다.학부 인턴은 연구실 내에서 진행되고 있는 프로젝트에 배정되어 활동을 하게 될 예정입니다.저희 연구실로 박사 및 석사과정 진학을 희망하신다면, 인턴 활동을 먼저 경험하시길 권장합니다.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr ===================== [ENG] 2025 Winter-Spring Semester Intern Recruiting in Urban Robotics Lab. Period of activity: 2026 January ~ JuneQualification: UndergraduateNumbers: 5 memberApplication Deadline: ~11/26 (Wed)How to apply: Please write an application through the google form https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X3cMW7CSoP2Y5JAcdeeBF4bvfKw9gm6yLVG8dgGV8mo/edit?usp=sharingKAIST Urban Robotics Lab is recruiting undergraduate interns to join us in the Winter~Summer.Undergraduate internships will be conducted in a way that interns will be assigned to one of the Lab projects.If you want to go on to a doctor or master's candidates in our lab, we recommend that you experience the internship first.Q&A: intern@urobot.kaist.ac.kr
Nov,04,2025

Recent Publications

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[Journal acceptance] T-RO

I Made Aswin Nahrendra, Byeongho Yu, Minho Oh, Dongkyu Lee, Seunghyun Lee, Hyeonwoo Lee, Hyungtae Lim, and Hyun Myung, "Obstacle-Aware Quadrupedal Locomotion With Resilient Multi-Modal Reinforcement Learning," accepted to IEEE Trans. Robotics (T-RO).
Dec,02,2025

[Journal acceptance] RA-L

Eungchang Mason Lee, Kevin Christiansen Marsim, and Hyun Myung, "LODESTAR: Degeneracy-Aware LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with Adaptive Schmidt-Kalman Filter and Data Exploitation," accepted to RA-L. (Nov., 2025)
Nov,12,2025

[Journal acceptance] T-IV

Hyungtae Lim, Daebeom Kim, Hyun Myung, "Multi-Mapcher: Loop Closure Detection-Free Heterogeneous LiDAR Multi-Session SLAM Leveraging Outlier-Robust Registration for Autonomous Vehicles", accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
Oct,11,2025

Media Release

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AI Summit Seoul @ EXPO

Prof. Myung delivered a keynote at AI Summit Seoul @ EXPO, held in COEX, Nov. 11, 2025. ZD Net | "가상에서 현실로, 공간 배우는 로봇의 진화"
Nov,17,2025

[KMatriX] Multiway registration framework for spatiotemporal environments

Multiway registration framework for spatiotemporal environments Prof. Hyun Myung’s research team developed a change-robust multiway registration pipeline, winning 1st place at NSS Challenge 2025. Figure. Example of final refinement process using change detection algorithm, Chamelion. Source: KMatriX
Nov,01,2025

[LG CNS AX Fair 2025] Keynote

Prof. Myung gave a keynote speech at the LG GNS AX Fair, Seoul, Sep. 30th, 2025. 뉴시스 | [AI로봇 시대①] 강남거리 활보 중인 휴머노이드…카이스트 로봇 "계단도 척척"  
Oct,13,2025

Recent Youtube

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LODESTAR (RA-L, 2025)

Dec,01,2025

Multi-Mapcher (T-IV, 2025)

Dec,01,2025

ActiveGrounder (Humanoids'25 WS)

Dec,01,2025

Lab Introduction (Kor / Eng)

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